Every year I spend the last few weeks of the year compiling my favorite book finds of the year. They are not always new books. Just books I discovered for the first time and really, really liked.
CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION BOOK DISCOVERIES FOR 2019:
Describes how Danish astronomer Ole Romer measured the speed of light using a crude telescope and a mechanical timepiece.
Pencils, Pens & Brushes: A Great Girls’ Guide to Disney Animation by Mindy Johnson
A fun and inspiring look at many of the amazing women who have worked at Disney Animation over the years--from Story Artists, to Animators to Inkers and Painters, all with unique personalities and accomplishments, such as becoming a record-holding pilot, or designing Hollywood monsters, or creating an international club for tall people!
Pollen: Darwin’s 130 year Prediction by Darcy Pattison
How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem? On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. How, he wondered, did insects pollinate the orchid? After experiments, he made a prediction. In 1992 a German entomologist captured the first photo of the hawk moth pollinating the flower, as Darwin had predicted 130 years before.
Red Rover: Curiosity on Mars by Richard Ho
Mars has a visitor. It likes to roam, observe, measure, and collect. It explores the red landscape - crossing plains, climbing hills, and tracing the bottoms of craters - in search of water and life. It is not the first to visit Mars. It will not be the last. But it might be the most curious.
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot’s World War II Story by Marc Tyler Nobleman
In this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII--the only enemy ever to do so--and comes back 20 years later to apologize.
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