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Frank and Lucky Get Schooled
Frank and Lucky Get Schooled Written and Illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins Published in 2016 by Greenwillow Books ISBN 978-0-06-237345-8 Grades K-6 Book Review Take a romp through the school disciplines with Frank and his exuberant dog, Lucky. In this innovative picture book, Newbery award winning author Lynne Rae Perkins sends a strong message: opportunities […]
Giant Squid: Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book
Giant Squid By Candace Fleming, Illustrated by Eric Rohmann Published by Roaring Brook Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-59643-599-5 All Ages 2017 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Book Review Giant squid remains a mystery. The first photograph of a living giant squid was not taken until 2004; the first video of a live giant […]
Barnum’s Bones
Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN: 978-0-374-30516-1 Written by Tracey Fern Illustrated by Boris Kulikov Grades 3-8 Book Review “Barnum collected more dinosaur bones than anyone on earth.” In fact, before he started working for the famous American Museum of […]
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Skull in the Rock & Their Skeletons Speak
The Skull in the Rock Written by Marc Aronson and Lee Berger National Geographic, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4263-1010-2 Grades 6- 8 Book Review “For Dr. Berger, it would have been enough to find that one special bone. But the clavicle was just the beginning. It was the rabbit hole beckoning Alice, the wardrobe flung open to […]
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