This book is follow up to Charlotte the Scientist is Squished.
Charlotte is excited that Grandpa has moved in with her and her family. He visits her lab daily until the day he falls ill. Along with other forest creatures, Charlotte wants to find a cure. The book follows along as Charlotte does all the things that scientists do. Does she find the cause of the illness, discover the cure, and heal her Grandpa?
There is a glossary in the back of the book.
Natalie’s Hair Was Wild! is about a young girl who likes her wild hair. A variety of animals agree with Natalie as they move in to nest in her hair. Natalie is not phased by this. Eventually, the animal sounds get to her. Follow Natalie’s story in this whimsical picture book that both boys and girls alike will enjoy.
This is a very interesting non-fiction book about poo, s subject that is rarely explored. The book tells about different animals and their poo. At the end of the story, it explains what zoos do with all the animal poo.
Lola the armadillo spills her juice. Instead of cleaning it up, she runs off to the library. On her way, she encounters friends in the same predicament. She has them join in her journey to the library. At the library, things continue to go wrong until Lola meets a bird. The bird helps Lola and her friends clean up their disasters. This book is beautifully illustrated.
The Hidden Witch is a sequel to the fantasy graphic novel The Witch Boy. In this follow up the focus of the book moves beyond Aster and includes a larger teen group. Some of these are magical while other are not. However, they all have the same desire to figure out their life’s direction. Instead of a battle against a curse dragon, this story’s major conflict revolves around the daily wounds of everyday teenage life. This book is full of colorful images and creates a sweet story that continues the tale from the previous book.
This book is like science fiction, what I thought was only capable in Hollywood movies like ANT MAN are now working robots. Robots the size of a penny and robots that can see the small print three football fields away.
The timeline on pages 16-17 has dates from 1914-2014. Military robots clearing land mines, flying rescue missions, dropping bombs, and video recording areas for surveilance.
The book shows what they can do, not how they do it.
The book comes with QR codes, but I watched and read it at popbooksonline.com. This information is more in depth, comes with student activities ( matching and word search), and lesson plans for teachers.
Pearl and her robot Pascal are going to Gigaworld Amusement Park. While there Pearl will make comparisons between things in the park and computer coding.
Pearl introduces her readers to: code, variables, loop, if-then-else, and sequence. It all makes sense when Pearl talks about it. This story shows how coding does not need to be complicated. Older readers (adults, especially) will definitely want to read “Pearl and Pascal’s Guide to Coding” after the story is over.
Pearl and Pascal work their way around Gigaworld using tokens (a variable) until they are able to get onto the ride Python Rollercoaster with a short line. A loop is explained while they ride the Ferris wheel. If-then-else is explained as they make up their mind as to what to do next when the line to the rollercoaster is too long, in connection with a variable (Boolean).
It all makes sense when Pearl explains it.
By folding paper back and forth neatly upon itself six different projects are demonstrated, step-by-step in this book.
I found these projects easier than origami projects with a greater success rate, too. Directions are given for a snake, fish, butterfly, pumpkin, pinwheel, and a double picture.
Readers will enjoy and want to make more than one of each project as they hone their paper folding skills.
Netflix has Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishing a graphic novel version of their television show episodes. This one, The Sticky Rice Caper, is from season 1. The graphic novel follows the TV episode with a few exceptions. The graphic novel has omitted one minor VILE character and the French Interpol agents. The graphic novel has placed the factual information about France and Indonesia at the end of the story line. And Carmen Sandiego’s bio information is at the very beginning, before the new story line begins.
Carmen Sandiego is out to foil VILE (Villains International League of Evil) and their new bioweapon which will destroy Indonesia’s rice harvest. Once Vile has Indonesia starving, they will sell Indonesia their artificial rice for a huge profit.
Carmen, the highly capable heroine, defeats VILE once again with the help of her team, her custom gear, and her fighting ability.
Fast paced action the reader will not want to put down.
Early, young readers who want a minimum amount information about Kwanzaa will find two sentences opposite a large color photo dealing with Kwanzaa in this book. If they study the photos carefully they will gain an understanding of the material aspects of Kwanzaa, such as, wearing African dress, the lighting of the kinara (special candle holder), and some of the other seven symbols.
The Adbo Kids Online Free Online Multimedia Resources given at the end of the book include an audible song, downloadable word search and maze, and a coloring page from PBS’s ARTHUR celebrating Kwanzaa.