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Guest Post: Kids and Nature Preschool Teachers Weigh In on the Blueberry Award by Martha Meyer
Special guest poster Martha Meyer joins us to talk about connecting kids and teachers to books about science, nature, and the environment itself.
Review of the Day: Listen to the Language of the Trees by Tera Kelley, ill. Marie Hermansson
With exquisitely clever art, this isn’t the first book I’ve seen on the subject of tree communication, but what I can say is that it’s the best written with the most useful illustrations to date.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Science and Nature Books
2021 turned out to be a remarkably strong year for Nonfiction in general and science/nature in particular. From biologists to topography to the life cycles of clouds and smoke, there's a little of someone for everyone here.
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Review of the Day: Mars Is by Suzanne Slade
Want to instill Mars fever? Then you gotta catch this book.
Review of the Day: The Snail With the Right Heart by Maria Popova, ill. Ping Zhu
Today we discuss a book that takes risks, makes mistakes, and comes out memorable in the end. The right snail with the right heart in the right book for the right reader.
Review of the Day: 13 Ways to Eat a Fly by Sue Heavenrich, ill. David Clark
Funny and gross, this book is an honestly inventive way of spelling out how the simultaneously disgusting and delicious (eh?) fly is an integral part in not only the food chain but also the world as we currently know it.
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Science & Nature Books
Whether it's plants that resemble toilets, seemingly psychic horses, deer eating pythons, or the sheer scope of the universe itself, there's something in here for everyone.
Review of the Day: Honeybee by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann
Great writing for kids, when you encounter it, reminds you that there is always a new way to look at this old, familiar world of ours. If you buy only one bee book for the rest of your life, make it this one.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Science and Nature Books
I always forget how much I enjoy this particular topic. From animals to space to germs and more, enjoy this lovely long list for the scientifically inclined.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2018 Science and Nature Books
Today we applaud books that have science and nature at their very core. Great books. Important books. Fun books. Beautiful books. Books that deserve your attention. Enjoy!
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