Looks like another #scienterrific book for the future orders list.
You can always rely on the quality of Melissa Stewart nonfiction texts, and the art looks gorgeous.
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Cover of Respect The Insect by Jules Howard and Gosia Herba. Bright yellow background with horizontal rows of bug characters in bright colours, cross between cartooning and graphic design style.
#ThisBookTheseReasons
I swear I could stock a fairly stellar personal library collection for a kid just from very funky books that Wide Eyed/Quarto puts out…
This is a very engaging #scienterrific insect book; fact-packed; great text; cool facts (not only standard fare); fab layouts; cool art!
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Cover of the mentioned book, by Drew Beckmeyer. Features a cut paper looking dark cave interior with anthropomorphic (minimalist but expressive eyes and mouths) stalactite and stalagmite characters, one above the other, slowly dripping themselves into elongated existence.
#ThisBookTheseReasons
Excellent narrative nonfiction: It’s #scienterrific with its great front & back matter, mini visual timeline at bottoms of pages; charts evolution from POV of titular Stalactite & Stalagmite; plus, has a #SecretCover; and now is part of my #RecodeTheBarcode series.
Drip💧 drip💧
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Just learned that, in the UK, this is National Nonfiction November…? So, here’s a l’il reminder that I semi-regularly do #scienterrific posts with #ThisBookTheseReasons logic for why those nonfiction books would be great for col’n development…see also, examples attached…& more.
#NNFN
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Cover of The Dark! Wild Life in the Mysteries World of Caves (which I ever-so-wittily snapped a photo of in the darkness under some chairs in my kitchen…like the book in a cave…cause I’m so tricky). The main title in slightly jagged, shivery, “spooky” all-caps…purple dark cave background… stalactites and awesome creepy insect thing (!?) plus snake, glow worm strings and bat coming down from top…stalagmites insects, critters (?), a newt (?), a mouse at the bottom
#ThisBookTheseReasons
@linseedling.bsky.social rocks it again w/ a #scienterrific crossover nonfic/ #graphicnovel w/ her comics-style & realistic-enough details illustrations. Fab facts. Great example of how modern illustrator-driven nonfic is so highly engaging vs trad photoreal/text block books
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This sounds like a #scienterrific Choose Your Own path book that will be a massive hit with kids who love our CYOA collection.
Thx for the book rec 📚👍
See also,
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#TLsky #Skybrarians
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Wow!
That sounds like my kind of #scienterrific book.
(Will need to lobby again for an unlimited budget so that I can purchase more great stuff before the end of the year…sigh…if only…but, it’s for the kids…”jolt to the gills” can’t be resisted, right?)
Going on the future orders list✅
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The book Living Things and Non-Living Things, by Kevin Kurtz. The summary text says: “Using a wide variety of stunning photographs, author Kevin Kurtz poses thought-provoking questions to help readers determine if things are living or nonliving. For example, if most (but not all) living things can move, can any nonliving things move? As part of the Compare and Contrast series, this is a unique look at determining whether something is living or nonliving.”
It really was, even more than expected. This crew was so INTO it. They were recording a ton of stuff on their t-charts, discussing thoughtfully, calling others over to see their discoveries…and then I set them up with the perfect #scienterrific debrief book for the afternoon.
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Update:
Happy to say that I added
I Was: The Stories of Animal Skulls
+
Meet The Mini-Mammals
to the #ReadAloud rotation voting Tues/today.
Both were huge hits—lots of conversation sparked.
Details on these #scienterrific books:
See:
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Fab #scienterrific books!
(But, I don’t recognize the one with the bolts of cloth…what is it?)
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Cover of I Was: The Stories of Animal Skulls. Title and subtitle in the centre in a purplish gradient sky, a barred owl (I think) in its natural brown/white/grey colours on the swoop across the top of the book, aligned above a cool, blue-grey scene of an owl skull in the blades of grass across the bottom of the cover.
#ThisBookTheseReasons
Beguiling #scienterrific read! Seems simple initially? Nope. Deep.
Short lines, but thought-provoking lyrical text (“A skull speaks in arches and ridges and caverns of bone”) w/ who-am-I text hints and guess-then-flip hints to go w/ skulls (“I was the seeker of sweetness”).
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See info ⬆️ on #scienterrific reads from
@mstewartscience.bsky.social / @brianlies.bsky.social
Sneed B Collard III /
@csneal.bsky.social
@teresarobeson.bsky.social / Diana Renzina
Chris Butterworth/Olivia Lomenech Gill
#KidsLoveNonfiction
👍📚 #Skybrarians #TLsky 📚
More…⬇️
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4 nonfiction (picture book format) books. More info and ALT for each individual book in each of the posts in this thread.
Clever Crow book cover. Red typewriter style font for title text, but with letters in slightly varying font size. Centre image of a probably N. American crow, one leg up, head stretching down to look toward the claw on the ground. Behind it, is a stylized blue and white blotchy background painted over old newsprint or book pages.
Reading/processing new arrival #Scienterrific books this afternoon…
Clever Crow:
#ThisBookTheseReasons
Corvids rawwk! Gorgeous art; quick facts; cool hidden fact that Flores crow egg pic in egg gallery pic was left blank as the bird is so rare, we don’t know what its eggs look like!?
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There are some #scienterrific books on this enviro-theme award list that I already bought, but even more ideas for collection development.
(and I can vouch for the cuteness of the baby coyotes—I’ve had the book in my hands)
All 35:
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My recent huge book order has started trickling in.
It includes this @katemessner.com @csneal.bsky.social
#scienterrific read.
Working on completing the over/under collection.
See also,
my #ThisBookTheseReasons thoughts about why librarians should add these.
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Check out these #scienterrific titles from Owen Davey via )always funky) @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social
Beautiful on display, always get snapped up.
Davey artwork/graphic design skills—so striking!
(paired w/ a stellar book designer, Sarah Crookes, too.
Info inside accessibly chunked & intriguing.
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Cover of MEOW! The Truth About Cats, which features an extreme close-up of a cat face so that you’re seeing only the nose and eyes area.
@annettewhipple.bsky.social’s Truth About series is #scienterrific too!
Striking covers, strong content, really engaging photos and layout, writing that draws the reader in, short fact bites, longer text analysis—fab!
This cat edition is a replacement for a very popular lost copy.
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#scienterrific nonfic for kids is equally informative/intriguing for adults.
The in-depth (75 pages; rather than typical 32 for this trim size) Scientists in the Field series is stellar.
Just learned the best way to know what coyotes are eating is to snip a whisker and analyze chemical signatures.
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Both of these are #scienterrific!
April Pulley Sayre does great stuff, and anything Steve Jenkins did was excellent.
For some more excellent #nonfiction 📚👍
check these out…
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Oops, heres that #scienterrific thread:
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This 🧵 has some of my #scienterrific hashtag posts collated for incredible nonfic that kids are loving at my library.
(I haven’t really been collecting stats; more anecdotal and noticing what gets pulled off my displays and what gets left behind.)
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I've been working on my blog.
Herewith some #scienterrific kids books I read a couple of weekends ago.
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Well, if you’ve seen my hashtag #scienterrific posts, folks, then you’ll know this will likely lead me to some more great finds.
And if @fuse8.bsky.social is giving respect for a great booklist, then I’d call that vouchsafed…
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Cover of the book mentioned, by Maxwell Eaton III. It features a cartoonish girl, go bag on back, fleeing alongside her sidekick skunk, running uphill away from a sandy beach as large waves are beginning to crash toward shore. Of note: The title script has Survival in stencil script and the O in Scout is made out of the dial of an orientation compass.
#ThisBookTheseReasons
New (to my library col’n)
#GraphicNovels 🧵
Survival Scout: Tsunami:
Funny, charming, totally #scienterrific discussion/illustration of tectonic plates, etc.
Great fit in with Science Comics in my GN section.
📚👍
#TLsky #SchoolLibrarians
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The cover of A little book of sloth. Featuring a green grass background on which a brown-bodied, white-headed Choloepus sloth cuddles with a beige stuffed toy rabbit. You know when people do those posts saying I’m having a rough day, send me pictures of cats – or whatever – well, this is that. Perfect for such an emergency.
Light blue/green cover, most of which is the giant title, with two small grey cat faces wearing crocheted frog eyeball bonnets down at the bottom. Full title: This book is literally just pictures of cute animals that will make you feel better From the book catalogue record: “As its name subtly suggests, this book features pictures of excessively cute animals. That's Literally it. While turning these puppy-peppered pages, your mood will Literally become one of delight and tenderness. Literally. And therein lies the powerful magic of pictures of cute animals. Just simply peering into those big eyes carries with it all the gravitas of a David Attenborough nature documentary, but without the effort of having to actually watch a documentary.” Also says: “This is Literally exactly what our turbulent world needs right now. With its unique meow factor, this is the book that you deserve after a ruff day at work. (It should be said that, mercifully, no animal puns are included in this book.) Beyond shadow of a doubt, this book is a landmark moment in the long and valuable history of photojournalism.”
#ThisBookTheseReasons
Adorability, Cuteness Galore!
+ some #scienterrific facts alongside mellow wit about baby sloths in a Costa Rica rescue centre.
A Little Book of Sloth, by Lucy Cooke, on display tomorrow.
Not since This Book Is Literally Just Pictures Of Cute Animals… has cute been so mastered.
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Awhile back, got to see a digital preview of Next Scientist, by @katemessner.bsky.social
Loved it; here’s why:
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Happier even w/ the physical copy.
A very inspirational & aspirational #scienterrific read for science-minded kids (or for kids to be awakened to possibilities).
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A picture showing the three books laid out on my footstool. I thought I’d fill some blank space with hastily-scrawled Apple Pencil lettering saying #scienterrific. I’m not sure this added much at all to the presentation.
Adding more #scienterrific books:
Tapir Scientist is part of the stellar/thorough Scientists in the Field series; Shape Search is a great nature-walk-and-catalogue provocation; Mysterious Marvellous Octopus has so many photographic examples of the vast varieties of the creature.
Check-outs assured!
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The cover of the book Tools: A Bisual Exploration of Implements and Devices in the Workshop. The title and author/photographer names are placed in rectangles within a 5x5 grid of small, labeled images of tools, such as a stubby slotted screwdriver, an iris tool, a cordless circular saw, an iron C-clamp, etc. His books always use this image grid system, which is meant to evoke the Periodic Table of Elements (and he indeed finds a way to map out the categories of tools as an newfangled periodic table of sorts).
Any of Theodore Gray’s books (his elements series, Engines, etc) is a #scienterrific fascination.
They circulate fairly constantly with curious mind kids.
I thought I was just going to do a quick flip through Tools and then process it and move on—well, I spent ages browsing and reading.
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Cover of Lesser…, which has the subtitle The Coolest Creatures You’ve Never Heard Of. On a grey background, a branch swoops through left to right, on which is perched a cartoonish…something…a relative of a weasel probably…long body, long tail, short legs…white-ish with black spots and stripes; plus, a ferret, I think, in the bottom right, which is standing up and facing the viewer, waving with a Hi word bubble. (PS—I do know which animals they are, really, because I read the book, but the point is that, as the title suggests, the feature creatures aren’t exactly the standard ones we always see.)
Covers of Seasons and Habitats. Each cover has vertical sectioning in its image, as a hint about the flaps inside. Habitats showing three different biomes, with Seasons showing on large tree and attendant creatures divided into four seasonal panels.
This picture and the next one show the book opened up with my fingers helping to hold several flaps sections (as described in the post) splayed half open): This one showing the front side of the flaps for rain forest; the next photo partially showing the backs of those flaps.
Backside of flaps—see previous photo alt description.
Lesser Spotted Animals… achieves #scienterrific status by blending facts w/ engaging humour, zany art.
Seasons/Habitats get there by blending facts w/ vibrant stylized art, overlapping & interactive quarter/half/three-quarter peekaboo flaps for pages.
All will be popular with my students, for sure
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Some more #scienterrific book rec 📚👍 newbies for the library collection.
The Scientists in the Field series is especially thorough and fantastically photographed, but these other high interest rescue stories are stellar too.
All: Conservation via empathy, knowledge, respect.
Also: Careers for kids?
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