Today I Am a River by Kate Coombs
Today I am a reader. And I did not need to use my imagination for that. However, if I was one of the characters in the story Today I Am a River I would need to use that imagination as I would need to decide what I wanted to be: a river, tree, owl or even a leaf. Each item in Kate Coombs picture book is a poem relating all the wonderful things that item is. We see how things float, fly and even the […]
The Den That Octopus Built by Randi Sonenshine
Before the Seed: How Pollen Moves by Susannah Buhrman-Deever
I have probably mentioned before that I was never a science person. However, if I had been taught that science was not just chemicals and numbers and formulas maybe I would have been into it more (don’t get me wrong, I had good teachers, just some did not know how to teach me). Therefore, as an adult I am enjoying my journey into Seemingly-Non-Science-Science areas. And of course, I have found books to help me. Books that show nature is a science. And since I […]
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
CBR15 BINGO: In the Wild, because it’s about animal senses (which is pretty wild!) A bug called a treehopper communicates by creating vibrations through its abdomen. A dog’s olfactory sense is so acute that it can tell twins apart by their smell. Shore birds called red knots use their bills to feel prey under the sand. These are a few of the amazing sensory tales that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ed Yong reveals in An Immense World. More than a collection of animal facts, An Immense […]
The Wilderness by Steve McCarthy
It is The Wilderness and our young character, Oktober Vasylenko, does not like it. The other siblings and his parents do, but he’d rather read about adventures. After all there are monsters, and bugs, and all sorts of stuff. Like The Wilderness itself. It is not a nice creature. Or is it? The father of Oktober tells him that sometimes he too is scared, but that is just what you feel, but bravery is what you do. And in an accident, Oktober is separated from […]
Family is Family by Melissa Marr
Puff: All About Air by Emily Kate Moon
Let me tell you a not so secret secret: I like books. But what is a somewhat secret is that I do not write reviews for all the books I have read. However, I am going to write reviews for the two below (both read via online reader copies) Family is Family by Melissa Marr and illustrated by Marcos Almada Rivero, due March 2024 While the “all families are different” theme has been done before, this is the first time I have seen it done […]
I Am Made of Mountains by Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs
The Pocket Book by Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs
You think that a National Park is just made up of trees, and dirt, and bugs, and bears? Well, some are, but some have humpback whales, alligators, juniper trees, beautiful sunsets, rivers, Spanish moss and so much more. You can see all of that in I Am Made of Mountains as Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs’s narrator takes us on a journey of the National Parks of the country. From Hawaii to Alaska to Tennessee to Florida and all in-between, the poetic text tells us of wonderful […]
