Ready-To-Read Super Gross, baits the STEM hook for 2nd and 3rd graders

Teach a child a foreign language and the first things that they’ll remember is the profanity, slang or pickup lines. In other news: kids who only study one year of Spanish make the world’s worst interpreters.  As a testament to that, it’s been more than 25 years and I can still say “you’re very cute” in Norwegian. The gross facts from reference books, those strange blurbs about animals that they’ll never see are always the first ones to get read. How-To-Read Super Gross is a book series that leans into that tendency and gives it a big, yucky hug. What’s In Your Body? is the big font combination of photographs and illustrations and witty dialogue that emerging readers crave.

Ready-To-Read Super Gross, What’s in Your Body? perfectly sets up and answers STEM things that first through third graders want to read and talk about.
TAstey STEm for ages 5 and up

Outside Chance stands a high probability of enjoyment for ages 11 and up

Outside Chance, as in, there’s an outside chance that it’ll rain on Saturday. Don’t Doubt The Rainbow, as in the book that’s written by Anthony Kessel. It only sounds like the taunting catchphrase for a cereal company that’s helmed by a magically delicious leprechaun. Don’t Doubt The Rainbow, Outside Chance is the second book in this series that’s very smart. The pacing, levels of description, and plot elements that go into Outside Chance seem to make it more on par with YA, than mglit, but does it really and why does it matter?

Outside Chance, the second book in the Don’t Doubt The Rainbow series is smart YA that also satisfies mglit fans with action, mystery and realistic fiction.
Smart ya does not mean that it’s not highly enjoyable

The Sublime Ms. Stacks, a divisive drag show drama in a library

The only way that The Sublime Ms. Stacks could be more polarizing is if each book came with a lightning rod. There is no gray area on this illustrated book. It’s a book that can be admired for its forthright thinking but will also leave many wondering how it could be so tone-deaf. The Sublime Ms. Stacks will leave most readers wondering why the book exists, while a couple of them will say that it didn’t come onto the scene soon enough.

The Sublime Ms. Stacks preaches to the choir, whichever one you’re on, and will fire up the other side, which might be the point.
Why ask why, it’ll speak to the choir-both sides of them

A Bucket of Questions, a curious illustrated book you didn’t know you need

We started out one of our recent YouTube videos by stating something along the lines of “getting kids to ask the question is the important part about discovery and loving STEM.” In theory, if you’re going by a book’s title, A Bucket of Questions is an illustrated look at some questions that the elementary school audience has. What are hot dogs made of? and What’s at the bottom of the ocean? are just a couple of the questions that are posed to young audiences. The punch line to the book is alluded to in its full title, A Bucket of Questions almost answered by Tim Fite. ‘almost answered’ is not the sort of qualifier that one would use with a STEM, Q & A, or factoid book, and once you thumb through it you’ll know why it’s there.

A Bucket of Questions is not a reference book. Instead, it’s a silly, absurd illustrated book that’s intent on having fun and encouraging kids to ask questions.
Seeking the ministry of silly walks are you?

I Can’t Draw, an immediate illustrated book classic for elementary school

Max is an elementary school-aged kid. He also says that he can’t draw. I Can’t Draw is a great time of an illustrated book that dances between the first and third person as Max tries to convince readers that he can’t draw. This is the sibling book of The Day the Crayons Quit and Battle Bunny, which represent two fabulous books that are in our forever library. It teaches a mild lesson without being preachy, but has the main goal of being fun to read, which it effortlessly does for kindergarten through third, or maybe even fourth grade.

I Can’t Draw is an illustrated book that is funny from the get-go and only gets better the more times that you read it.
Make room on the forever book shelf for this one

Inner Workings, a cut-through, STEM, curiosity book for a couple of pages

I taught a fifth-grade student who drew detailed illustrations of automobiles in his spare time. They were surprisingly intricate, exterior drawings of cars with some having overview representations of their engines. While many kids who are that age like cars, this student’s passion and talent certainly went to the next level. Inner Workings is an engineer’s look at how just over two dozen things that kids see on a daily basis work. The illustrations in the book mainly consist of cross-section pictures that are done in a classic-retro style. It’ll initially draw in those mechanical engineer kids, as well as those who are just curious about how the soft-serve ice cream machine works.

Inner Workings is a how-it’s-made book that’ll preach to the STEM, engineering crowd, but could’ve yelled at everyone with more narrative.
The STEM Choir rejoices, but it could’ve reached wider and higher

Foldout Anatomy, a fold-out look at the systems that keep things alive

Pound for pound, page for page, Foldout Anatomy has the most entertaining information in a STEM reference book that we’ve seen in months. Yeah, there are lots of qualifiers in that statement, but getting kids to willingly read non-fiction is necessary, but can be challenging. Foldout Anatomy is an interactive book aimed at upper-elementary through middle school students, with enough tidbits of knowledge to entertain and educated those older souls who wander into its pages.

Foldout Anatomy is an interactive, fold-out book that looks at the systems that keep living things alive in a manner that fun and educational.
Thumb through, read them all why don’t you

The Golden Age, 2,000-year-old poems retold for kids today

We’re not worthy, quoted Wayne Campbell. The Golden Age is a children’s illustrated book that presents 17 of Ovid’s poems in story form. Without context, the writings from a two-century deceased poet that Augustus exiled to the Black Sea are not the sort of readings that tempt young audiences. However, when it’s paired with esoteric artwork that has a timeless appeal to it, combined with this style of writing it’s elevated to something greater than the sum of its parts.

The Golden Age is presented here in a package that’s retold for children. The art is gorgeous and the succinct text is perfect for those kids and creation folk tales.
Ovid, dropping knowledge like he did 2,000 years ago
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