Questions can open a story instead of interrupting it. These books reward looking closely, wondering aloud, and changing your mind when new information appears.
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Eva and her mother keep asking questions outdoors, about gravity, sand, clouds and frogs. They don’t need a final answer to one before moving on to the next.
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Recommended by The Dispersal of DarwinStory & parent notes
Each page shows a close view of an animal part, such as a tail, and asks what the animal does with it. The next page answers, and more facts let readers keep investigating.
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Recommended by Hey Mrs. Library LadyStory & parent notes
In these poems a stick turns into different imaginary tools, and children make up shared games like pretend stone soup. A child hanging from the monkey bars notices familiar things from upside down.
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Recommended by Pragmatic MomStory & parent notes
When a more complete fossil turns up, Iguanodon’s spike moves from its nose to its thumb. Bones and tracks also change what people thought about how dinosaurs stood and dragged their tails.
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Recommended by The Miss Rumphius EffectStory & parent notesTry another title, author, or age, or clear the filters.
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