Backyard Books Review & Giveaway (6/19)

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6/19/11
Congrats Comment #208 - Diana Bradford Hatch
Congrats Comment #44 - April Yedinak

Spring is upon us and summer is almost here! While we prepare to enjoy the warm weather, flowers, animals, insects, and outside activities I have two awesome books to introduce you to, both from Blue Apple Books and both of which your children are sure to like and will compliment this time of year wonderfully.

How Things Work In The Yard describes the inner workings of just about everything that’s right outside a youngster’s back door — including acorns, bubbles, puddles, ants, fireflies, clouds, birds and even dandelions (did you know they close at night and then open again in the sun?). Just right for kids ages 4-8, creator Lisa Campbell Ernst deftly strikes the right balance of detailed yet easy-to-understand language and cleverly labeled drawings to inventively explain the functioning of objects that may seem quite ordinary to us grown ups but rather extraordinary to our children!

Bugs By The Numbers features an amazing array of insects: butterflies to termites, dragonflies to walking sticks. What makes this book a true stand-out is that these incredible insects are ingeniously engineered out of numerals.  Each entry also includes fascinating numeric facts about its subject — like how a flea can bite up to 400 times per day or that a queen termite can lay 1 egg every 15 seconds! This eye-catching and imaginative book for kiddos ages 6-12 features 9 die-cut gatefolds and text that is fun, funny and informative!

All three of my children ran full throttle for these books the day we received them! They aren’t only wonderfully illustrated and attention grabbing, but they are so very fun and informative that parents will love them as much as their kiddos. Both reads will be an excellent edition to our book collection and are a must for all science fans, nature lovers, and bug buffs!

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You can purchase either of these fun reads from Chronicle Books, Amazon.com, and many online and retail bookstores.

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Blue Apple Books has generously offered 2 Obviously MARvelous readers a copy of both How Things Work In The Yard and Bugs By The Numbers!

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