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(0)Carole Gerber
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Parents and teachers ask me for the names of books for their primary school children. I'm honored to recommend Annie Jump Cannon, Astronomer by Carole Gerber, an excellent book about a true astronomical pioneer." -Paul Kohlmiller, editor, San Jose Astronomical Association newsletter
This brilliantly illustrated children's book depicts the achievements of a woman who developed an important system of classifying stars. To this day, Annie Jump Cannon...
2) Leaf jumpers
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and rhyming text describe different leaves and the trees from which they fall.
3) Blizzard
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A raging winter storm contrasts with the cozy atmosphere of a young boy's home.
4) Winter trees
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Trees that once had leaves are bare. They're dressed instead in lacy white. Snow dusts their trunks and coats their limbs with flakes that outline them with light." Join a boy and his dog as they use their senses of sight and touch to identify seven common trees in the snow covered forest. Intricate illustrations and lyrical text make distinguishing different types of trees easy--even in the middle of winter, when only bare branches stand like skeletons...
8) Tuck-in time
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
At bedtime, a parent carefully checks baby's body from head to toe, encouraging gentle play.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This love letter written from birth parent to child invites readers to experience a baby's month-by-month development in the womb as compared to familiar fruits and vegetables. Simple, age-appropriate facts are woven into a tender and lyrical text that celebrates the miracle of a baby. It demystifies and informs readers, while simultaneously appreciating the wonder of it all"--
12) A band of babies
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Benny arrives at day care, where the babies are bored, he finds the instruments and soon they are off on a musical journey to the store for a snack.
13) Firefly night
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A young Chippewa girl follows a firefly as it reveals the secrets of the night, the many creatures that share her forest home, on her way to sleep. Inspired by Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha."
15) 10 busy brooms
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First board book edition.
Language
English
Description
Ten little witches grab their brooms and fly into the night sky in a Halloween counting book that invites children to practice counting on rattling skeletons, pie-stealing mummies, and werewolves with bad breath.
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