{"id":633,"date":"2019-12-06T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=633"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:14:50","slug":"superlative-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/superlative-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Superlative Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/superlativebirds-595x645.jpg?resize=525%2C569&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"569\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10211\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/361tPGO\">Superlative Birds<\/a><br \/>\nby Leslie Bulion (Author) and Robert Meganck (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Explore the fascinating world of superlative birds&#8211;from the bee hummingbird, the tiniest bird in the world, to the peregrine falcon, the fastest creature on Earth. <em>The back of the book includes a science glossary, notes on poetry forms, and resources for more information about these birds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Superlative Birds:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhich bird can do what birds do, <em>best<\/em>?<br \/>\nWhich put world records to the test?<br \/>\nWhich birds are beaks above the rest?<br \/>\nSuperlative birds! Come see!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9825 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Cybils-Logo-2019-Large-595x385.jpg?resize=525%2C340&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2019\/10\/2019-nominations-poetry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Cybils Poetry nominee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superlative Birds by Leslie Bulion (Author) and Robert Meganck (Illustrator) Booktalk: Explore the fascinating world of superlative birds&#8211;from the bee hummingbird, the tiniest bird in the world, to the peregrine falcon, the fastest creature on Earth. The back of the book includes a science glossary, notes on poetry forms, and resources for more information about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/superlative-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superlative Birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-ad","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":256,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/birds-of-every-color\/","url_meta":{"origin":633,"position":0},"title":"Birds of Every Color","author":"@roberta3","date":"February 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't usually mention a book before it is published, but this week we are featuring Sneed B. 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