Lab Links
Useful Websites
- Interactive Poetry from ETTC. Create poetry by filling in the blanks.
- Moving Stories Watch Animated stories such as Anansi and the Pot of Beans and A Tale of Two Frogs Available free from August House. Titles change.
- Kids Space from the Internet Public Library Free. Features Reference, Science Fair help, Author Pages, Story Hour, U.S. Presidents, Arts & Crafts, Games, and much more.
- KidsAstronomy.com
- American Memory Primary source materials from the Library of Congress in many forms: documents, photographs, films, maps, audio files, and more.
- Today in History from the Library of Congress.
- On This Day Highlights in history from the New York Times learning network.
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April Highlights of the Month
[ Spring ] a season of growth...
[ Plants & Flowers ] [ Eggs ]
[ Poetry Month ] [ Mystery and Detective Stories ]
[ Space and Planets ] [ Moving Stories ]
Spring
- The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Lucille Clifton Pictures by Brinton Turkle (E/CLI) Two skeptical city boys set out to find spring which they've heard is "just around the corner."
- Poppleton in Spring by Cynthia Rylant (E/RYL) Poppleton the pig does some spring cleaning, tries to buy a bicycle, and stays up all night in a tent in his backyard.
- What Happens in the Spring by Kathleen Costello Beer (574/BEE)
- Spring by Gail Saunders-Smith (ER/508/SAU)
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Eggs and Chickens
- Chickens Aren't the Only Ones (who lay eggs) by Ruth Heller (591.3/HEL)
- The Egg a Scholastic book created by Gallimard Jeunesse and Pascale de Bourgoing ; illustrated by René Mettler (591.3/BOU)
- The Egg by M.P. Robertson (E/ROB)
- Chicks & Chickens by Gail Gibbons (636.5/GIB)
- Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett (E/BRE
- The Painter who Loved Chickens by Olivier Dunrea (E/DUN)
- Zinnia and Dot by Lisa Campbell Ernst (E/ERN)
- Peeping Beauty by Mary Jane Auch (E/AUC)
- The Talking Eggs by Robert San Souci (398.21/SAN)
- Eggs Over Easy by Katharine Kenah (FIC/KEN)
- Baby Blues: an Adam Joshua Story by Janice Lee Smith (FIC/SMI)
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Plants & Flowers
- How do Plants Grow: World of Plants by Spilsbury (571.8/SPI)
- Why Do Plants have Flowers: World of Plants by Spilsbury (575.6/SPI)
- Plants: Everyday Science by Riley (580/RIL)
- All Kinds of Plants: World of Plants by Branigan (580/BRA)
- Plants are Living Things by Bobbie Kalman (580/KAL)
- Flowers Fruits & Seeds by Wexler (582/WEX)
- The Magic School Bus: Plants Seeds by Reif (582?REI)
- A painter who loved and painted flowers:
- Georgia O’Keeffe by Turner (759.13/TUR)
- Georgia O’Keeffe by Mike Venezia (B/OKEEFFE)
- Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert (E/EHL)
- Alison’s Zinnia by Anita Lobel (E/LOB)
- The Lost Flower Children by Lisle (FIC/LISLE)
- The Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomi DePaola (398.2/DEP)
- The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf (E/LEA)
- The Ugly Vegetables by Lin (E/LIN)
- The Empty Pot by Demi (398.2/DIM)
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Mystery and Detective Stories
- A to Z Mysteries series by Ron Roy (FIC/ROY)
- Cam Jansen series by David A. Adler (FIC ADL)
- The Boxcar Children mystery series by Gertrude Chandler Warner (FIC/WAR)
- Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series by Carolyn Keene (FIC/KEE)
- History Mysteries series by various authors
- Check out the longer List of Mystery and Detective Stories.
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April -- Poetry Month
- Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms by Charles R. Smith Jr. (818/SMI)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride illustrated by Ted Rand (811.3/LON)
- Celebrate America in Poetry and Art: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, Photographs, and other Works of Art from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution edited by Nora Panzer (811.008/SMI)
- Pish, Posh, Hieronymus Bosch by Nancy Willard; illustrations by the Dillons (811/WIL)
- I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus; paintings by Michele Wood (780/IGU)
- All About the Symphony Orchestra and What it Plays by Dorothy Commins, foreword by Thomas Scherman, drawings by Warren Chappell, photos by Constantine Manos and others (785.06/COM)
Space and Planets
Microscopic World
- Yuck!: A Big Book of Little Horrors: Micromarvels in, on, and around You! by Robert Snedden (579/SNE)
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