Book Review: Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza (Mysteries Science Hasn’t Solved)
Of all the dinosaur books my daughter and I have read so far, Lenny Hort’s Did Dinosaurs Eat Pizza?: Mysteries Science Hasn’t Solved may be our favorite. It packs a lot of information into very readable bursts of text.
Read articleMaking our nonfiction more browse-able: Part IV
My goal for this school year is to boost circulation in our nonfiction section. So far, I’ve rebalanced the entire collection to remove gaps, eliminate overstuffed shelves, and add more front-facing books. This week, I used WordArt to redo the nonfiction signs using thematically shaped word clouds that reflect the topics contained in each section.
Read articleWordless Wednesday: Crocheted Unicorn Mugshot
It’s too warm this week to knit blankets, so I’ve switched to amigurumi (the craft of crocheting little stuffed toys). It’s finicky work and I’m always deeply uncertain about the results, which is why as soon as there is a hint of coolness in the air, I plan to go right back to making blankets. Anyway, this week I made this unicorn.
Read articleWhat I’ve been reading in between bouts of doom-scrolling the news
The world is a bit of a dumpster fire today, so let’s distract ourselves by talking about books, shall we? In today’s post, I’ll tell you about three great middle grade books and my very exciting shout-out on today’s episode of the Terrible Lizards podcast.
Read articleMy OcTBR Reading Challenge
Eighty-seven years ago, I decided that my resolution for 2020 would be to deal with my 45-book high Currently Reading tower. Good news? I’ve gotten the pile down to a mere 28 books. Bad news? It’s October. Time to kick it into high gear. Enter the #OcTBRChallenge.
Read articleMiss going outside? – Take a virtual field trip
Miss being out in the world? Grab your computer and take a virtual field trip to a world-famous art museum, opera house, science museum, or zoo.
Read articleCaterpickles Central Update
In which I talk about some of the things I’ve been doing instead of posting on Caterpickles.
Read articleThe Caterpickles Middle Grade Gift Book Guide: Part 3 – Ten Great Nonfiction Books for Middle Schoolers
This week, we publish Part 3 of The Caterpickles Middle Grade Gift Book Guide – 10 Great Nonfiction Books for Middle Schoolers. Have you read any of these? What do you think? #books
Read articleSo they named a new dinosaur species last week…
News broke this week that paleontologists have determined that a set of bones found in Big Bend back in the 1980s is actually a hitherto unknown type of duck-billed dinosaur. Whenever I hear of a new species, I can’t help but wonder how long that new species identification will last.
Read articleShala reads books and starts counting OSHA violations: The Bones for Barnum Brown Edition
Regular readers know that I’ve been looking for a copy of Roland T. Bird’s 1944 essay, “Did Brontosaurus ever walk on land?” since 2011, when I had to rely on J.A. Wilson’s second-hand account of it while researching the answer to the pressing question: “Could sauropods swim?” A few weeks ago, I discovered that I could acquire Roland T. Bird’s memoir, Bones for Barnum Brown: Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter, through the Northern California Interlibrary Loan Service. So of course I did.
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