STEMAZing Picture Books

The author/illustrator of Plants That Never Bloom presents a new series of books sure to please small children and simultaneously teach them the tricks of camouflage.–Publishers Weekly. This clever game of hide-and-seek features a grasshopper, a bumblebee, an inchworm, and other insects. Full-color throughout.

With a simple text and vivid full-color photographs, Stephen R. Swinburne shows children a wide range of nature’s exquisite designs. He invites children to open their eyes and look for patterns in water and on land, in the air and on the ground, and in their own neighborhoods. They will see the world as they’ve…

If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk. He’ll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn’t have a milk mustache, and then he’ll ask for a…

In pictures as bright as sunshine, a father and child share the simple joy of planting, watering, and watching seeds grow in the family garden. Then tomatoes, potatoes, corn, cabbage, and lots of other vegetables are cooked up into the best soup ever – and they can all be grown again next year!

What would you do if you were the moon? Do you think you would rest quietly in the night sky? Oh, no. The moon does so much more than you might imagine! It spins like a twilight ballerina, plays tug-of-war with the ocean, and lights a pathway for baby sea turtles. Discover the many other…

On the hottest summer afternoons when desert creatures look for shade and stay close to the earth and keep their voices low and fling my loud ringing trill out to the sun… So sings the Cactus Wren, one of the ten desert creatures that speaks for itself in the evocative and lyrical verses of “Desert…

This book offers a deeper insight into what mathematics is, tapping every child’s intuitive ideas of logic and natural enjoyment of games. Simple-looking games and puzzles quickly lead to deeper insights, which will eventually connect with significant formal mathematical ideas as the child grows. This book is addressed to leaders of math circles or enrichment…

A rocky cliff juts out toward the ocean, its rough face jagged and worn. In a process called erosion, water, ice, and wind wear away the rock and change its shape over time. From rivers cutting deep valleys to ocean waves crashing into the shore, erosion changes the face of the earth.