Anastasia Suen

October 19, 2018October 25, 2018

Fly With Me

Fly With Me: A Celebration of Birds through Pictures, Poems, and Stories
by Jane Yolen (Author), Heidi Stemple (Author), Adam Stemple (Author) and Jason Stemple (Author/ Photographer)

Booktalk: Stories, poems, songs, facts, and photos fill the pages of this 192 page treasury celebrating the amazing world of birds in this Year of the Bird. Even the back cover has a poem on it! (See below.) Keep this book by your window with a cell phone and binoculars . . .

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Digiscoping
Although photographing birds professionally takes expensive camera equipment and an expert eye, you can get started without either of those. Digiscoping is a way to capture close-up pictures of birds with a digital camera, even a cell phone camera, and a telescope or a pair of binoculars.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

October 8, 2018October 15, 2018

Bug Hotel

Bug Hotel
by Libby Walden (Author) and Clover Robin (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Welcome to the Bug Hotel, a homemade habitat where creepy crawlies of all shapes and sizes can find a place to stay!

Discover how a bug hotel can create a sustainable, safe environment for insects and minibeasts by exploring each section, lifting the flaps and finding out facts about your favorite garden insects.

Instructions for building your own bug hotel at the end of the book!

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See the book trailer.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)