A Squirrelly Situation: When a Wild Baby Comes Home
The villain of this book is a cat, and the cat is not doing a single thing wrong. Understanding why is most of what your child takes away from it.
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Roaring Rockets: One Real Idea and One Correction
Most rocket books for five year olds are noise and a moon. This one has an actual idea in it. It also plants one wrong impression that you will need...
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Amazing Airplanes: The Right Words, in the Right Order
It will not teach your child how a wing works. It will teach them cockpit, landing gear and runway, used correctly, and the real order of a flight. At four,...
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Ada Lace, Take Me to Your Leader: the Radio Is Real
A ham radio is one of the last machines a child can open up, repair, and then use to talk to a stranger four hundred miles away. This is the...
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Ada Lace, on the Case: a Hunch Is Not a Hypothesis
Nina is certain an alien took the dog. Ada is certain a person did. That argument is the engine of the book, and it happens to be the most useful...
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Ada Lace Sees Red Is a Robot Book About a Grudge
Ada is not likeable for a good stretch of this one. She is jealous of her best friend, she will not speak to her father, and she cannot get her...
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