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Tag: science books

December 25, 2025 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Science & Nature Books for Kids

Merry Christmas! How about celebrating the season with science? I mean... it's good for what ails ya.

December 25, 2024 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Science and Nature Books for Kids

Today, consider this post my present to all those nonfiction and informational book fans out there. It's just FULL of titles that won't really get their day in the sun unless we promote the bloody heck out them.

December 25, 2023 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Science and Nature Books

I hope you're ready for A LOT of science and nature books today, because this is definitely my longest list to date. Full of incredible titles!

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Science and Nature Books for Kids

December 25, 2022 by Betsy Bird

I love how much I've learned about both science and nature thanks in large part to the children's books I've read. An accounting of some of the best of the year.

Guest Post: Kids and Nature Preschool Teachers Weigh In on the Blueberry Award by Martha Meyer

July 13, 2022 by Betsy Bird

Special guest poster Martha Meyer joins us to talk about connecting kids and teachers to books about science, nature, and the environment itself.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Science and Nature Books

December 24, 2021 by Betsy Bird

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

May 4, 2021 by Betsy Bird

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

March 19, 2021 by Betsy Bird

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

February 11, 2021 by Betsy Bird

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.

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2020 Science & Nature Books

December 25, 2020 by Betsy Bird

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.

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