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How Can I Help During Covid-19?
by Emily Dolbear (Author)
Booktalk: In just a few short months, COVID-19 has drastically altered the world as we know it. With so much unknown about the disease and the virus that causes it, this is a scary and overwhelming time. After explaining what COVID-19 is, this short chapter book focuses on how kids can help during the pandemic.
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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
Copyright © 2020 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
Like the illustration of young Beatrix Potter on the cover, this book focuses a lens on the children’s author’s lesser-known years as a mycologist (one who studies fungi). Although Potter had no formal schooling in science, she was introduced to mushrooms by a talented amateur named Charles McIntosh. He became her mentor and sent her samples to study. Beatrix made beautiful detailed drawings of each specimen. She also figured out a way to prove that new mushrooms grow from spores, something that wasn’t well known at the time. However, like other women scientists in the 1800s and early 1900s, Beatrix Potter encountered resistance when she tried to share her findings.
