How Do Seeds Grow Into Gardens?: A Hands-On Book About Gardening
by Clayton Grider, Srimalie Bassani (illustrator)
This book takes you step by step through instructions for planting a garden, and explains how seeds grow. Different plants need different temperatures, watering, or sunlight. The illustrations show little cartoon seeds sprouting and soaking in the sun. We also learn about the types of insects that are good to have around for your garden, as well as ways to deter pests like squirrels and slugs.
This is such a fun book! I love the cute illustrations and the hilarious characters. The information is clearly explained step by step in a playful way that makes it memorable. At the back there is a craft for making your own watering can out of a milk jug, or you can make an eggshell herb garden in an egg cartoon. This book is perfect to spark your curiosity about plants and get started with your own little garden!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
How Do You Become a Mad Scientist?: A Book Full of Science Experiments
by Madeline J. Hayes, Srimalie Bassani (illustrator)
This book gives you a bunch of science experiments to try at home! You can make your own slime from glue and saline solution. You can make a balloon blow up using fizzy soda. You can make an egg bouncy using vinegar. There is even a recipe to make your own ice cream!
But this book doesn’t just give you the experiment or recipe to try; you also learn why the experiment works, why the chemicals react to each other, and how molecules attract each other.
This is such a fun book! I love the cute illustrations and the hilarious characters. The information is clearly explained step by step in a playful way that makes it memorable. At the back of the book we learn about famous scientists from history! Be sure to bring your goggles and a lab coat, so you can be a wacky scientist too!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
How Do You Look Like You?: A Book About Genetics
by Victoria Rea, Srimalie Bassani (illustrator)
This book explains why some people have curly hair or blonde hair or green eyes. We all get our genes from our parents, and our chromosomes and DNA determine what physical traits we have. Did you know that having freckles is actually a genetic mutation? Some people have mutations that make their bones really strong, or make them really sensitive to bitter tastes.
This is such a fun book! I love the cute illustrations and the hilarious characters. The information is clearly explained step by step in a playful way that makes it memorable. There is a game at the back of the book where you have to choose random physical traits from a bowl and try to draw a person with big ears and a stubby nose and red hair or brown eyes and small mouth and a big chin. The mixture ends up being really funny!
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Gigantic?: A Book About Dinosaurs (How Do?)
by Clayton Grider, Srimalie Bassani (illustrator)
This book talks about why dinosaurs might have grown to be so large. It details the “millions of years” that it took for dinosaurs to “evolve”, and tells how they were all wiped out by a large meteor. However, what this book fails to do is mention that all those things are theories with no proof. The book acts as if the millions and billions of years timeline is fact. It presents the theory of evolution as if it were fact. That is just sloppy writing. If there is no proof or even the barest likelihood of something being true, then the book should state very clearly that it is a theory, just an idea, one among many.
The back of the book has a recipe for dinosaur fossil cookies and a craft for a dino pencil holder that you can make out out toilet paper rolls. Very cute!
Too bad the science is flimsy.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
Luminous Libro 