California Wildfires, 2018: A Fire Starts Years Early
Your child thinks a wildfire begins when something catches fire. It begins about ten years earlier, in a wet spring, and that is the one idea this book is well...
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Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967: Who Fed the Bears
The bears in this story did not walk out of the woods as monsters. They walked out of a dump that people had been filling for years. That is the...
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Yucky Worms: The Book You Can Check in the Garden
Read it, then go outside and see whether it was telling the truth. Very few books hand a five year old the means to check them, and this one does.
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Chameleons Are Cool: The Camouflage Myth, Corrected
Ask any adult why a chameleon changes color and you will almost certainly get the wrong answer. It is one of the most widely believed false facts about any animal,...
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Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? Not a Lone Genius
The best thing in this book is not the light bulb. It is the phonograph, because every link in the chain from a voice to a groove in foil and...
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Who Was Nikola Tesla? The Science and the Legend
Your child will meet two Teslas in their life. One of them built the electrical system your house runs on. The other one is mostly made up, and this book...
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