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Deep Dive Into Nonfiction

2024

Wild About Books

Bored with living in the dictionary, the words escape to Hollyword and arrive just in time for LexiCon. They assemble in groups: palindromes, conjunctions, rhyming words, etc. Pandemonium ensues, and Noah Websters orders them back inside. Oops! Roget begins having trouble with his thesaurus.

The Great Dictionary Caper

Have you ever wondered how the great Dr. Seuss wrote his most famous book? Did you know that for The Cat in the Hat, he wasn’t allowed to make up the fun words he was known for—like OOBLECK and IT-KUTCH and HIPPO-NO-HUNGUS? He was only allowed to use words from a very strict list! This bouncy account of the early career of Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Ted Geisel) proves that sometimes limitations can be the best inspiration of all. Kid-friendly prose (with Seussian rhyme for Ted’s dialogue) and whimsical illustrations by award winner Kevin Hawkes recall the work of Dr. Seuss himself. Writing tips from Dr. Seuss and exclusive letters from the author and illustrator, detailing how they created this book, are included! 

Imagine That! How Dr. Seuss Wrote The Cat in the Hat

Winter is gloomy and grey at the zoo, and what's worse, very few children are visiting. The animals, led by the hippo and the kangaroo, create a musical extravaganza—a ZooZical—that brings a huge audience.Download a script for a classroom play based on the book at www.judysierra.net.

ZooZical

The zoo is bursting with new babies, and the tree kangaroo and the pandas long for their own little ones. The kangaroo's wish comes true when the endangered species van rolls in carrying a mysterious eggs. "I have room in my pouch," says the tree kangaroo, and proceeds to hatch it, as the pandas' wish comes true in an even more unexpected way.

Wild About You

Once upon a time, Old MacDonald didn’t have a farm. He just had a yard —
 a yard he didn’t want to mow. But under the direction of the wise (and 
ecologically sensitive) Little Red Hen, Mac learns to look at the 
environment in a very different way, and whole new worlds start to bloom
 with the help of some mud, garbage, horse poop, and worms! Judy 
Sierra’s spirited verse, paired with Matthew Myers’s exuberant 
illustrations, yields a fresh take on a children’s classic, complete 
with raised-bed gardens and an organic farmers’ market—making this a 
perfect story for armchair gardeners and devoted locavores of all sizes