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5-Minute Ada Twist, Scientist Stories, nuggets of STEM fun for ages 5-7

As we’ve said before, it’s an Ada Twist world, we’re just living in it. For kids of a certain age, see those kids who are between five and seven years old, Ada Twist has been tickling their STEM fancy since 2016. She started out in illustrated books, has branched out into chapter books, a Netflix show, and now 5-Minute Ada Twist, Scientist Stories takes the series to bed. The book doesn’t overtly say bedtime stories with Ada Twist. However, the five-minute timeline in the book’s title lets parents know that this is a safe place to read when it’s already ten minutes past where they should’ve been.

5-Minute Ada Twist, Scientist Stories is 12 short STEM stories with characters that pre-k and early elementary know and love.

Those pre-k kids know the deal on this one

Mi Comunidad!/My Community! makes a true bilingual book accomplishable

I understand why some parents don’t want to read a book to children in a second language. It’s the accent that we perceive they’ll be laughed at. I get that, but spoiler alert, your elementary school student is not going to know if you’re slightly mispronouncing a word in a second language that’s in a book. This is a good thing. To be able to have a book in Spanish and English, with exactly the same content in a way elementary-aged kids will understand and enjoy, is a good thing. Mi Comunidad!/My Community! is by 123 Andres and it’s a high-quality bilingual illustrated book that kids will enjoy, but might fly under your radar.

Mi Communidad!/My Community! is a bilingual illustrated book that talks the talk and shows young readers two languages in action.

Learning a second language is easier the younger that they start

I Don’t Care, the sly, slow and lasting road to friendship

Softness is not a pejorative. There are certain children’s illustrated books that wear that descriptor as a badge or cloak, enabling it to give it strength and personality. Author Julie Fogliano’s work embraces that mantra. Her books have the timeless and approachable morals that early elementary kids crave. They do so in a way that’s not preachy, this is important because that fact allows older readers, teachers and parents to relate to the book as it brings back memories. I Don’t Care is an illustrated book that starts out on somewhat of a contrary tone, but teaches an aspect that everyone can learn from.

I Don’t Care parries soft, engaging art with a story about two friends celebrating their interests and differences.

Rhyming fun that ages 3 and up will quietly clamor for

MerryTale, A Christmas Adventure allows the holiday to pop for pre-K and up

If SpookyTale is the sister to MerryTale, then their father is Christopher Franceschelli. Both of them are board books in the Abrams Trail Tale series. They are also much more than just a seasonal book with pages thick enough for little hands to easily turn. Board books have a special place with pre-k kids because they’re something that they can engage in without any oversight from an adult. It’s something that they won’t break, or get hassled about doing and will even help them in the long run.

MerryTale: A Christmas Adventure continues the Abrams Trail Tale board book series that gives the medium a punch up.

A board book for those who are aging out of the medium

Giddy joy abounds in The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella

Joy and utter happiness, there was a character in one episode of Phineas & Ferb that always amped up a party. It was the one where Cheesetopia in their backyard happened, and Perry was turned into a butler for Doofenshmirtz. The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella is a kid’s first graphic novel that lives and breathes happiness. Its colors, glossy pages, big illustrations, and emotive characters lovingly scream off of the pages in a way that will make early elementary school readers immediately attracted to the book.

The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella is a graphic novel that takes the joyous cues from Hello! Lucky and gives it a bigger, longer stage for early elementary.

Resistence to happiness is futile

P.S.-We Made This!, unexpected crafting that lives up to its title

The issue with most craft books that we’ve run across is that they’re too complex. The end creation looks great, but it requires too many things to make it and has far too many steps. It’s worth noting that I’m a relatively handy guy also. I have a garage full of stuff to fix most simple things in a house and have two boys over ten, so we’ve acquired lots of craft things too. Having said that, every craft or maker book that we’ve tried to do has fallen short. P.S.-We Made This! does not the aforementioned issues. Instead, it’s a book of 85 relatively simple crafts or projects that mid-through upper elementary students can do with minimal to no assistance.

P.S.-We Made This! is the very rare crafting/activity book that can really, yes really, be done with normal, everyday things in your house.

It works, it really really works

Cat Ninja: Welcome to the ‘Burbs, all-age graphic novel action early elementary

Cat Ninja is an elementary-aged graphic novel series that runs with glee towards ages eight and up, all but taunting them not to read it. Welcome to the ‘Burbs is the fourth entry into the Cat Ninja world and is as much fun as one would expect from a graphic novel that’s brave enough to be called that.

Seriously, think of four things that eight-year-olds enjoy or want to talk about and it’s guaranteed that two of them are ninjas and cats. It’s a reluctant reader’s paradise if you’re able to make a book or graphic novel about ninja cats, or in this case, Cat Ninja.

Cat Ninja: Welcome to the ‘Burbs is the fourth book in the all-age graphic novel series that will have grades two through five feline fine.

Cat Ninja….born to save the day (insert James Bond theme here)

The Replay: 25 Greatest Moments in Sports, worldwide appeal play

There is a sport that no elementary school-aged kid likes. There is a sport that the vast majority of elementary school children like. There’s a sport somewhere that’s the official sport of a county or their national pastime. Some of these sports get more of the spotlight when the Olympics roll around, some have seasonal happenings and some of them have produced iconic images that folks around the globe will recognize. The Replay: 25 Greatest Moments in Sports is an illustrated book that looks at 25 specific instances in sports competitions that today’s elementary school students probably won’t know.

The Replay: 25 Greatest Moments in Sports is a global look at historic moments in modern competition that ages 7 and up will dig.

The more you know, the motivating sports version for ages 7 up