In Water is Water: A Book About the Water Cycle, the illustrator, Jason Chin, emphasizes the importance of water and its ever changing and evolving forms using expressive full page illustrations. In these illustrations, we follow children as they experience water in all its forms including snow, rain, fog, running in a stream, and more.…
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Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales
Ever wish you could see inside the mind of an artist? Award winning author and illustrator, Yuyi Morales does just that with her book Viva Frida. Photographs and illustrations rich with texture and details take readers into the imagination of Frida Kahlo. Simple text floats on the pages in English and Spanish giving you a…
Earmuffs for Everyone: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs by Megan McCarthy
Do you have creative ideas for a new invention? Maybe you have some thoughts on how to improve an existing invention? Well that’s exactly what Chester Greenwood did in the book by Meghan McCarthy entitled Earmuffs for Everyone: How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs. But the question surrounding this book is,…
Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman by Marc Tyler Nobleman
Batman the superhero was a pretty secretive guy. If you’re a Batman fan, you probably already know this. But did you know that Batman’s creators had their own secrets? The story of Bill the Boy Wonder begins in the 1930s with a man named Bill Finger. Even though his parents wanted him to become a…
Dogs on Duty: Soldiers’ Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
This book is very interesting as it talks about dogs who have been used by different parts of the military to protect soldiers. It gives information on specific dogs as well as in general. The book also talks about how the dogs and handlers are trained. There are lots of pictures! I had no idea…
Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard by Annette LeBlanc Cate
Several years ago, the author thought it would be nice to keep a nature sketchbook. She would sit outside drawing trees, rocks and flowers…and couldn’t help but notice lots of birds…some she knew, and others she did not recognize. Had they been there all along and she just wasn’t paying attention? YES! She couldn’t stop…
The Big Book of Superheroes by Bart King
This is not a book about Superman, Spiderman, or the Hulk. This is a book about how YOU can be a superhero. What do superheroes need? Well, there are chapters about choosing a superhero name, discovering your superpower, finding a sidekick, dressing like a superhero, and more. Each section is sprinkled with hilarious comic panels,…
Vulture Verses: Love Poems for the Unloved by Diane Lang
This poetry book starts out with a boy deciding to write friendship notes to all his friends, especially those who probably would never get a note like vultures, moles, snakes, etc. Each page is a note written in poetic form to a forgotten, somewhat disliked, animal or insect. Underneath each poem is a fact or…
Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World by Steve Jenkins
Steve Jenkins has quite a few amazing nonfiction animal books and this one doesn’t disappoint! In Eye to Eye, you can learn how different animals have various types of eyes depending on their environment. For example, did you know that a halibut (fish) is born with an eye on each side of his head, but as…
How to Build a Tornado in a Bottle by Lori Shores
Calling all scientists! Do you like to build things and learn how they work? This series is for you! The Hands-On Science Fun series includes titles about making slime, fizzy rockets, mystery smell balloons and….TORNADOs in a bottle! In How to Build a Tornado in a Bottle by Lori Shores, 1st and 2nd graders are given clear directions on how to…
