{"id":1903,"date":"2026-09-18T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:27:23","slug":"off-the-wall-making-stuff-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/off-the-wall-making-stuff-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Wall: Making Stuff Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Off the Wall: Making Stuff Together<\/em>
\nby Juana Martinez-Neal (Author, Illustrator) and Molly Idle (Author, Illustrator)
\n@ Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Booktalk:<\/strong> Best friends in real life make a book about friends making art! The day begins with one little girl, alone with a wall and a bucket of chalk. Then a friend comes along to play tic-tac-toe. Before you can say “look out!”, there are five friends, a cat, a dog, and a splattered ice cream cone. Chalk is flying, hands are getting dirty, and the art on the wall gets bigger and, more importantly, better.<\/p>\n

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Juana Martinez-Neal is one of my former students<\/a>.<\/em>
\nCopyright \u00a9 2026 Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. (*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Off the Wall: Making Stuff Together by Juana Martinez-Neal (Author, Illustrator) and Molly Idle (Author, Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Best friends in real life make a book about friends making art! The day begins with one little girl, alone with a wall and a bucket of chalk. Then a friend comes along to … <\/p>\n

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