Wed, November 18th, 2009
Let’s Talk Turkey
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: I came home a few weeks ago to find a wild turkey strutting through my front yard. I frequently have to slow down and wait for a flock to saunter across the road on my way to work, but that was the first one to walk my garden path. Jim Arnosky’s new picture book, [...]
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Mon, November 16th, 2009
Redwoods by Jason Chin
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: We haven’t gotten over our fall fascination with the National Parks and so this week for Nonfiction Monday we are headed to California to explore the mighty redwoods. According to Redwoods (Roaring Brook/Flashpoint, 2009) since 1850 and the advent of large-scale logging “more than 95% of the original redwood forests have been destroyed. [...]
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Mon, August 10th, 2009
Life in the Boreal Forest by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: Biome research never looked so gorgeous as it does in Life in the Boreal Forest (Henry Holt, 2009). My sixth graders know this biome as the “tiaga” but Guiberson references that alternate name for this important ecosystem. The boreal forest covers most of the Northern Hemisphere and shelters so many creatures, many of which [...]
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Mon, June 8th, 2009
The Cuckoo’s Haiku: and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. Rosen, illus. by Stan Fellows
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Cindy: I’ve wanted to write about this book all spring, but kept rereading it and finding new treasures so I hadn’t handed it over to Lynn. Finally, the bright orioles feeding on my oranges on my deck rails prompted me to get moving on sharing this book. The Cuckoo’s Haiku (Candlewick, 2009) is a tribute [...]
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Mon, May 18th, 2009
What Bluebirds Do by Pamela F. Kirby
Posted by: Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan
Lynn: “Bluebirds rock,” says award-winning photographer/author Pamela Kirby and it takes only a few pages of her glorious intimate pictures to agree with her. Kirby’s stunning photographs chronicle a pair of Eastern bluebirds as they raise five chicks in the nesting box in her backyard. Simple clear text provides fascinating information that is ideal for [...]
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