I Am a Baby Porcupette from Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen I am a baby porcupette. My paws are small; my nose is wet. And as I nurse against my …
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nonfiction nuggets…a capybara is a rodent of unusual size!
Capyboppy, written and illustrated by Bill Peet Ever heard of a capybara? It’s something like an oversized guinea pig. Very oversized. As in 200 pounds of guinea pig. Capyboppy is Bill Peet’s warm, humorous story of their pet capybara, brought …
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nonfiction nuggets…when winter is its winteriest
Survival at 40 Below, by Debbie S. Miller, illustrations by Jon Van Zyle At 40 below zero, my car probably wouldn’t start; water pipes burst; exposed skin freezes in next to no time. Yet a large variety of wildlife survives …
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non-fiction nuggets…monsters of the deep!
Here There Be Monsters: The Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid, by H.P. Newquist Imagine: 500 pounds of blood-red monstrosity. Bulging eyes, larger than beach balls, gleaming out from a bizarre bulb-shaped head. Massive, groping, writhing arms, lined with powerful, …
non-fiction nuggets…swedish design meets geography
Follow the Line around the world, written and illustrated by Laura Ljungkvist You know Etch-a-Sketch? The little red slate with the uppy-downy knob and the back-and-forth knob that you fiddle with, attempting to turn the never-ending line on the …
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nonfiction nuggets…about the vast animal kingdom
Animal Life, by Richard Walker… one of DKs “one million things” encyclopedias Dorling Kindersley has taken their trademark fabulous photography and put together this eye-popping, fact-asaurus, amazing volume all about animals! It is a hefty book in a number of ways: a …
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nonfiction nuggets…amazing animals!
Okay. This is a nine banded armadillo. Did you know that nine-banded armadillos are always born as identical quadruplets?? Four brothers or four sisters. That’s it. Or that wild turkey brothers live together their whole lives, while their sisters head off …
