Science

=Growing Good Kids ~ Lisa Wiggins= =Science Picture Books ~ Laura Hargis.= = Non-Fiction Science Picture Books = (This list is from //Nonfiction Matters: Reading, Writing, and Research in Grades 3 - 8// by Stephanie Harvey .)
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 * //**An Egg Is Quite**// by Dianna Hutts Aston || ** (Beautiful Illustrations) ** Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder. The evocative text is sure to inspire lively questions and observations. Yet while poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to more than 60 types of eggs and an interesting array of egg facts. Even the endpapers brim with information. A tender and fascinating guide that is equally at home being read to a child on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle. ||
 * //**A Seed Is Sleepy**// by Dianna Hutts Aston || ** (Beautiful Illustrations) ** Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle. ||
 * //**From Seed to Plant**// by Gail Gibbons || Explores the intricate relationship between seeds and the plants which they produce. ||
 * //**The Apple Pie Tree**// by Zoe Hall || ** (A new favorite.) ** Two sisters rejoice as the colorful blossoms on their tree develop into big, red, and ready-to-pick apples. This concept book about how things grow includes an easy recipe for apple pie. ||
 * //**Starting Life: Duck**// by Claire Llewellyn || ** (Starting Life Series includes frog, butterfly, ladybug, by C. Llewellyn.) ** These picture books illustrate the life cycles of fascinating animals and take readers through each stage that occurs from birth to adulthood. Lush, accurate illustrations of habitat feature plant life and other animals on die-cut pages that get longer as the subject grows!The interesting page sizes and full-page illustrations will appeal to young naturalist. (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K - 12 by NSTA Book Council) ||
 * //** Pumpkin Pumpkin **// by Jeanne Titherington || ** (One of my favorites.) ** Jamie plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and, after watching it grow all summer, carves a face in it for Halloween! But best of all, he saves some seeds that he will plant again next spring. ||
 * //** Eggs **// by Marilyn Singer || ** (Lots and lots of eggs - beautiful gouache paintings) ** Explains the varieties, functions, and characteristics of the eggs of a multitude of creatures, including insects, birds, and reptiles. ||
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 * //**A Grand Canyon Journey: Tracing Time**// in Stone by Peter Anderson ||  ||
 * //**Nature's Blackouts: Eclipses**// by Billy Aronson ||  ||
 * //**Tree of Life: The World of the Baobab**// by Barbara Bash ||  ||
 * //**While a Tree Was Growing**// by Jane Bosfeld ||  ||
 * //**An American Safari: Adventures on the North American Prairie**// by Jim Brandenberg ||  ||
 * //**Big Bang: The Story of the Universe**// by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest ||  ||
 * //**Everglades**// by Jean Craighead George ||  ||
 * //**The Story Behind a Force of Nature**// by Jack de Golia ||  ||
 * //**Destination Rainforest**// by Jonathan Grupper ||  ||
 * //**Avalanche**// by Stephen Kramer ||  ||
 * //**Lightning**// by Stephen Kramer ||  ||
 * //**Tornado**// by Stephen Kramer ||  ||
 * //**The Most Beautiful Roof in the World**// by Katheryn Lasky ||  ||
 * //**The Great Fire**// by Jim Murphy ||  ||
 * //**Earthdance: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tidal Waves and Geysers Shake Our Restless Planet**// by Cynthia Pratt Nicholas ||  ||
 * //**A Swim Through the Sea**// by Kristin Joy Pratt ||  ||
 * //**Safari**// by Caren Stelson ||  ||
 * //**Extraordinary Women**// by Darlene Stille ||  ||
 * //**A Drop of Water**// by Walter Wick ||  ||