Early Elementary

• Physics & Energy
• Engineering & Technology
• Maker / Problem-Solving

Why it works: Cece Loves Science: Push and Pull gives the class a concrete design challenge: build a dog-treat dispenser that uses both opposing forces. Cece's team has to apply the force idea, create a device, and see whether it works, so the concept carries the leveled-reader story.

• Life Science
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Cece Loves Science gives Cece and Isaac a child-sized question about whether Einstein the dog eats vegetables. Their research, data collection, analysis, and surprising conclusion form the picture-book plot instead of appearing as a detached lesson.

• Life Science
• Biography / Memoir

Why it works: Cubs in the Tub tells how Helen Martini began bottle-feeding a lion cub at home and eventually became the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper. The affectionate biography is built around neonatal animal care, changing responsibilities, and the point when growing wild cats must leave the household nursery.

• Earth Science
• Engineering & Technology
• Story / Adventure

Why it works: Cece Loves Science and Adventure turns a troop camping trip and an approaching thunderstorm into a chain of practical STEM decisions. Meteorology, measurement, shelter design, and route calculation determine how Cece and her friends get back safely.

• Astronomy & Space
• Physics & Energy
• Lyrical / Visual Picture Book

Why it works: There Was a Black Hole That Swallowed the Universe turns a familiar cumulative rhyme into an absurd collapse from universe and galaxies toward tiny building blocks of matter. Black-light artwork then reverses the visual sequence, making cosmic scale and nested structure a joke children can replay in both directions.