Amazing Magnetism: Science You Can Check With a Magnet
The bus barely matters in this one. What matters is that every claim in the book can be checked in your kitchen in twenty minutes, with one magnet and the...
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Who Really Killed Cock Robin? A Food Web as a Suspect List
Most nature books for children admire something. This one hands your child a body, four clues that have nothing obvious to do with each other, and a town full of...
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Who Gives a Hoot?: Why a Wet Owl Cannot Fly
An owl is not waterproof. The soft fringed feather that lets it fly without a sound is the same feather that will not shed water, and this book is built...
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Calpurnia Tate: Natural Selection in a Texas Backyard
She asks why the yellow grasshoppers are bigger than the green ones. Her grandfather refuses to answer her. He tells her to go and find out, and that one sentence...
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Skunked!: The Warning a Skunk Gives First
A boy walks into the house holding a baby skunk. That is page one of a very funny book, and it is also the thing you least want your own...
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Counting Sheep: A Birth, a Broken Wing, No Vet
This is the one with a birth in it. A child delivers a lamb, on the page, because the vet is off treating a horse and nobody else is coming.
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