Books Added to My Shelves in July 2024

This is my monthly roundup of books that I added to my shelves in July 2024. Some of the books came directly from authors or publishers, others were a purchase or a gift. You’ll find books from all kinds of genres including adult and children’s books. I’ll even share a few updates from our family’s life in the last month as well.

Family and Life Update

Our family traveled to Nashville this year for our family vacation. It was a HOT week, but we made the best of it by finding mostly inside things to do. We had a blast and definitely want to go back soon. My favorite part of every vacation is just the time spent together playing games and laughing.

The 12 South Neighborhood was a lot of fun for us girls. We stayed in Berry Hill which is a great area to get to pretty much anywhere fairly quickly. Of course, we spent a lot of time on Broadway and toured the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Anytime I’m away from home, I’m reminded how lucky I am to live in this beautiful part of Iowa. I always miss my sunsets when I’m gone and this was a favorite last month.

My daughter and I spent time with my mom at the end of the month. We stopped by this sunflower field near her house and it was the perfect day to take a quick photo.

Now on to the books! 

I finished five books in July. Three of them were fiction, two were nonfiction, and two of them were audiobooks. I got this Walking Pad during Prime Days and it has been nice to be able to walk while I read.

My current reads are THE DAYS I LOVED YOU MOST for review, BEING HENRY: THE FONZ…AND BEYOND, and I’m listening to GILEAD.

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ADULT FICTION AND NON-FICTION

THE WORLD’S FAIR QUILT
The Elm Creek Quilts Series #23
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Published: April 1, 2025
Publisher: William Morrow
Historical Fiction
Format: eBook for review

This will be my first Chiaverini book, but I have heard of her books and know she has a large following of readers. I love reading about the World’s Fair and even though this is the 23rd(!) book in the series, I’m not too worried about jumping in late to the series. My mom and sister are both quilters so that part of the story also appeals to me.

As fall paints the Pennsylvania countryside in flaming colors, Sylvia Bergstrom Compson is contemplating the future of her beloved Elm Creek Quilts. The Elm Creek Quilt Camp remains the most popular quilter’s retreat in the country, but unexpected financial difficulties have beset them and the Bergstrom family’s stately nineteenth-century manor. Now in her eighth decade, Sylvia is determined to maintain her family’s legacy, but she needs new resources—financial and emotional.

Summer Sullivan—a founding Elm Creek Quilter—arrives to discuss an antique quilt that she wants to display at the Waterford Historical Society’s quilt exhibit. When Sylvia and her sister Claudia were teenagers, they had entered a quilt in the Sears National Quilt Contest for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair. The Bergstrom sisters’ quilt would be perfect for the Historical Society’s exhibit, Summer explains.

Sylvia is reluctant to lend out the quilt, which has been stored in the attic for decades, nearly forgotten. In keeping with the contest’s “Century of Progress” theme, the girls illustrated progress of values—scenes of the Emancipation Proclamation, woman’s suffrage, and labor unions. But although it won ribbons, the quilt also drove a wedge between the sisters.

As Sylvia reluctantly retraces her quilt’s story for Summer, she makes an unexpected discovery—one that restores some of her faith in this unique work of art, and helps shine some light on a way forward for the Elm Creek Quilts community.

THE BEST WE COULD HOPE FOR
By: Nicola Kraus
Published: May 6, 2025
Publisher: Little A
Women’s Fiction
Format: eBook for review

I love a good family drama with secrets.

When Bunny Linden abandons her three children with her older sister, Jayne, in 1972, she knows Jayne will be the perfect mother. The mother Bunny herself, a teen runaway, could never be.

As months turn into years without word, Jayne and her husband, Rodger, a rising journalism star, strive to give the children the opportunity to flourish and feel loved. When Jayne and Rodger finally have a child of their own, a seemingly stable home is built. But then, after nearly a decade, Bunny resurfaces and sets a chain of events in motion that detonates all their lives.

As adults, their children try to reassemble the pieces and solve the mystery that has always haunted them. Who were their parents? What really happened between them? And who is ultimately to blame for the destruction? But will the answers they seek set them free—or lead to something far more damaging than anyone imagined?

THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN
By: Marjan Kamali
Published: July 2, 2024
Publisher: Gallery Books
Historical Fiction
Format: Hardcover purchase

I absolutely loved THE STATIONARY SHOP and as soon as I found out she had written another book, I added it to my Book of the Month order.

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation.

Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions for becoming “lion women.”

But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.

Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.

HONEY
By: Isabel Banta
Published: June 25, 2024
Publisher: Celadon Books
Fiction
Format: Hardcover purchase

This was an add-on to my Book of the Month order. I thought it sounded like a great read and one my daughter might also enjoy. It reminded me a bit of THE PEOPLE WE KEEP.

It is 1997, and Amber Young has received a life-changing call. It is a chance thousands of girls would die for: the opportunity to join girl group Cloud9 in Los Angeles and escape her small town. She quickly finds herself in the orbits of fellow rising stars Gwen Morris, a driven singer-dancer, and Wes Kingston, a member of the biggest boy band in the world, ETA.

As Amber embarks on her solo career and her fame intensifies, her rich interior life is frequently reduced. Surrounded by people who claim to love her but only wish to exploit her, and driven by a desire for recognition and success, for love and sex, for agency and connection, Amber comes of age at a time when the kaleidoscope of public opinion can distort everything and one mistake can shatter a career.

HUSBANDS & LOVERS
By: Beatriz Williams
Published: June 25, 2024
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Historical Fiction
Format: Hardcover purchase

I got this as an eBook for Review, but then also chose to add the hardcover to my Book of the Month order. I am quite certain I will love it and will enjoy reading it as a physical book more. I’ve enjoyed other books by Beatriz Williams.

FUNNY STORY
By: Emily Henry
Published: April 23, 2024
Publisher: Berkley
Romance
Format: Hardcover purchase

I got this for my daughter and me to share. She has been wanting to read it but she was like 970th in line for the Libby hold!

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?

SAME AS IT EVER WAS
By: Claire Lombardo
Published: June 18, 2024
Publisher: Doubleday
Fiction
Format: Hardcover purchase

I had the privilege of interviewing Claire in 2019 just before she published THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD. She was so kind and we had the best visit at Prairie Lights Bookstore. You can see my whole interview HERE as well as my review of her first book. I CANNOT wait to read this one.

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things.

She’s unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor’s edge.

SISTERS IN SCIENCE
How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
By: Olivia Campbell
Published: December 31, 2024
Publisher: Park Row
Non-Fiction/Biography
Format: eBook for review

I have learned about some absolutely fascinating women in history so I couldn’t pass up the chance to read this book. The title grabbed my attention right away.

In the 1930s, Germany was a hotbed of scientific thought. But after the Nazis took power, Jewish and female citizens were forced out of their academic positions. Hedwig Kohn, Lise Meitner, Hertha Sponer and Hildegard Stücklen were eminent in their fields, but they had no choice but to flee due to their Jewish ancestry or anti-Nazi sentiments.

Their harrowing journey out of Germany became a life-and-death situation that required Herculean efforts of friends and other prominent scientists. Lise fled to Sweden, where she made a groundbreaking discovery in nuclear physics, and the others fled to the United States, where they brought advanced physics to American universities. No matter their destination, each woman revolutionized the field of physics when all odds were stacked against them, galvanizing young women to do the same.

STAR FOR JESUS (AND OTHER JOBS I QUIT)
Rediscovering the Grace that Sets Us Free
By: Kimberly Stuart
Published: April 23, 2024
Publisher: Worthy Books
Christian Non-Fiction
Format: Hardcover purchase

Kimberly Stuart has the most contagious, sparkly personality. I also had the chance to interview her and then meet her during a book tour. Check out my interview and review, HERE. She is an Iowa author and I knew I would be purchasing her newest book which is a bit different from what she normally writes.

Growing up, Kimberly Stuart got really good at strapping on her spiritual tap shoes and trying to be a star for Jesus. She could sing all the songs, ace the sword drills, and know all the right theology. From earning creepy Jesus paperweights in her church’s faux girl scout program to trying to calm an actual storm on the Mediterranean, she was doing her best… and still found herself longing for something more. She didn’t mean to completely ignore the most beautiful tenets of her faith—the unwavering grace and tenacious love of God—but she did. Which, of course, was the problem. Her best was lackluster, and God wasn’t looking for a star performer anyway.

Star for Jesus (And Other Jobs I Quit) , is an invitation for readers to spot unvarnished, amazing grace when they see it. With her trademark wit and transparency, Stuart brings readers through both big and small moments that teach us to cling to the fierce love of God instead of the flimsier versions we find elsewhere.

SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR
The Waitress Pie Book
Recipes from the Files of Jenna Hunterson
Text By: Daniel Gercke
Recipes by: Sheri Castle
Photographs by: Evan Sung
Published: May 23, 2017
Publisher: Pam Krauss Books/Avery
Non-Fiction/Cookbook
Format: Hardcover purchase

One of my all-time favorite movies is “Waitress”. When I heard there was a Broadway musical based on the movie, I knew I would need to see it someday. I love the songs and just knew I would love the musical too. My daughter and I attended the musical at Theatre Cedar Rapids performed by impressive local talent. We had a blast and loved it. In looking up merchandise after the show I saw this cookbook. I couldn’t resist purchasing it.

The official tie-in to Broadway’s hit musical Waitress, featuring the recipes for 3 dozen of the show’s most evocative and delicious pies.

In the cult classic movie-turned-Broadway production, the eternally optimistic protagonist of Waitress expresses her hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations through the whimsically named pies she bakes each morning. Sugar, Butter, Flour celebrates this art of baking from the heart, with foolproof and flavorful pies for seduction, pies for mending a broken heart, pies for celebrating new beginnings and pies for all the little milestones that come afterwards. Taking its inspiration from the iconic mile-high pies of the diner case, Sugar, Butter, Flour offers an array of showstopping pies, each with a twist that puts it over the top; from rum-spiked cookie crusts to hidden layers of passion fruit preserves, these are familiar favorites with hidden depths. The ideal gift for anyone who has ever eaten her feelings or baked away the blues, Sugar, Butter, Flour proves there’s a perfect pie for every occasion – and that everything looks better with pie.

THE LITTLE WOMEN COOKBOOK
Tempting Recipes from the March Sisters and Their Friends and Family
By: Wini Moranville
Published:
Publisher:
Non-Fiction/Cookbook
Format: Hardcover purchase

I just recently reviewed Wini Moranville’s newest book, a memoir. In LOVE IS MY FAVORITE FLAVOR, Moranville, an Iowan, shares about her years waiting tables, writing as a dining critic for the Des Moines Register, writing and researching for her numerous cookbooks, and her European travels. I had no idea she had also written a Little Women cookbook. I had to have it.

Here at last is the first cookbook to celebrate the scrumptious and comforting foods that play a prominent role in Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.
If your family includes a Little Women fan, or if you yourself are one, with this book you can keep the magic and wonder of the beloved tale alive for years to come.

Do you wonder what makes the characters so excited to make—and eat!—sweets and desserts like the exotically named Blancmange or the mysterious Bonbons with Mottoes, along with favorites like Apple Turnovers, Plum Pudding, and Gingerbread Cake? Find out for yourself with over 50 easy-to-make recipes for these delectable treats and more, all updated for the modern kitchen.

From Hannah’s Pounded Potatoes to Amy’s Picnic Lemonade, from the charming Chocolate Drop Cookies that Professor Bhaer always offers to Meg’s twins to hearty dinners that Hannah and Marmee encourage the March sisters to learn to make, you’ll find an abundance of delicious teatime drinks and snacks, plus breakfasts, brunches, lunches, suppers, and desserts. Featuring full-color photos, evocative illustrations, fun and uplifting quotes from the novel, and anecdotes about Louisa May Alcott, this is a book that any Little Women fan will love to have.

CHILDREN’S FICTION AND NON-FICTION

MY BOOKS
By: Xavier Deneux
Published: August 6, 2024
Publisher: Twirl
Fiction
Format: Board Book for review

This little board book shares a love of reading while also teaching about colors. Xavier Deneux also wrote the board book BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST.

In this simple board book story, books of different colors take readers on imaginative journeys to lands far away: a blue book takes them on an ocean voyage, a green book takes them to a rain forest, a red book takes them to the top of an apple tree—and more! Die-cut holes and foil on each spread add to the fun.

LITTLE FIR TREE
Finger Puppet Book
By: Yu-Hsuan Huang
Published: August 27, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Fiction
Format: Interactive Board Book for review

You know I love all of these Finger Puppet Books. This one will be perfect for your little one’s stocking.

Little ones will love making friends with Little Fir Tree! This endearing and engaging children’s book invites young children to touch, feel, and explore their growing world. 

With its irresistible plush, adorable illustrations, and sweet, simple text, this forest-themed offering from the bestselling Finger Puppet series is guaranteed to delight parents and toddlers alike. Featuring a finger puppet that peeks into each illustrated page, Little Fir Tree offers a fun, interactive way to play and read as little ones build a lifelong love of books (and nature!).

THAT’S NOT FAIR
By: Shinsuke Yoshitake
Published: August 6, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

Read this one the next time your child says, “That’s not fair!” Shinsuke Yoshitake also wrote I CAN OPEN IT FOR YOU.

Why can’t a kid eat cookies right before bed? Why do adults get to stay up late while kids have to go to bed early? And why do adults say, “Not now!” right when kids want to play?! In this humorous picture book from acclaimed author-illustrator Shinsuke Yoshitake, one very patient father offers increasingly imaginative explanations for his kid’s complaints. The result? A more-than-fair, laugh-out-loud reading experience for all!

THE OFRENDA THAT WE BUILT
By: Jolene Gutiérrez and Shaian Gutiérrez
Illustrated by: Gabby Zapata
Published: August 6, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

This would be great for a lesson on the Day of the Dead or for learning about other cultures.

Learn about and celebrate the Day of the Dead! With warmth and energy, this spirited picture book is a joyful ode to family traditions and the memory of loved ones who have passed but whom we continue to remember.It is Día de Muertos—the Day of the Dead—and the family ofrenda is at the center of the celebration! Inspired by the popular nursery rhyme “The House That Jack Built,” The Ofrenda That We Built invites readers to join in the building of a colorful ofrenda, a home altar full of symbols and meaning, one special element at a time.This is truly an intergenerational holiday with deep familial love at its heart. Readers will recognize these moving and universal themes in the hands-on activity of building an ofrenda together, an accessible way of learning more about other cultures and celebrations. Told in warm and welcoming rhyme, with beautiful, immersive illustrations, this is a delight for readers of all backgrounds to enjoy when the holiday arrives each autumn or any time of year that calls for remembrance and connection with loved ones.

OVER AND UNDER THE WETLAND
By: Kate Messner
Illustrated by: Christopher Silas Neal
Published: August 13, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

This is one of two books by Kate Messner on this list. This Over and Under series is so great for kids to learn about various habitats.

Part of the acclaimed nature book series that includes Over and Under the Pond, Over and Under the Rainforest, and Over and Under the Snow, this volume takes readers on a journey into the magical and mysterious reaches of Florida’s Everglades National Park.

Over the swamp, the barred owl hoots, and the great egret swoops down on snowy wings. The slow mazes of waterways are quiet with the shush of reeds and grasses. But under the swamp’s soft shadows, there’s a whole hidden world of panthers and orchids, red-bellied turtles and raccoons, lurking alligators and singing frogs. This beautifully illustrated nonfiction picture book reveals all the fascinating creatures living just out of sight in the branches and depths over and under the wetland.

LITTLE MONSTER SAYS GOODNIGHT
By: David Slonim
Published: August 13, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

David Slonim wrote HE CAME WITH THE COUCH, a hilarious book that always gets lots of laughs whenever I read it. His newest bedtime story has a monster doing the opposite of what we would expect to get ready for bed.

A bedtime story for the little monster in all of us! Getting ready for bed is a blast in Little Monster Says Goodnight, thanks to a relatable kid monster who does things, well . . . just a little differently.With Momster’s help, Little Monster gets ready for he brushes his fangs (leaving gobs of fangpaste everywhere), enjoys some bedtime books (as in, he eats them), and asks his parents to check if there’s a monster under the bed (there is—good!). That’s right—even monsters must get ready for bed, and Little Monster’s funny and familiar nighttime rituals will encourage all little monsters to go to sleep!From celebrated author and illustrator David Slonim, this delightful bedtime read-aloud features rib-tickling scenes and colorful details on every page. Children who love (and even those who may be afraid of) monsters will ask for it again and again.

HANNAH EDWARDS
Secrets of Riverway
By: Ashley Hards
Published: September 10, 2024
Publisher: Fabled Films Press
Middle-Grade Fiction
Format: Paperback for review

This would be a great book for the beginning of the school year. This coming-of-age story has themes of friendship, family, and neurodiversity.

Hannah has a lot on her mind. Her father—the Canola King—is missing, and no one in her small town seems to care. With the support of her best friend Sam Castillo and their sidekick Tim the Hall Monitor, Hannah embarks on a journey to solve the mystery of her father’s disappearance. Along the way she uncovers secrets, confronts ADHD-related challenges in school, talks to a ghost, and learns the true meaning of determination and friendship.

INVISIBLE ISABEL
By: Sally J. Pla
Illustrated by: Tania de Regil
Published: July 9, 2024
Publisher: Quill Tree Books
Middle-Grade Fiction
Format: Hardcover for review

Realistic, middle-grade fiction with illustrations is perfect for the shy kid who needs encouragement to shine.

Isabel Beane is a shy girl who lives in a home full of havoc and hubbub and hullabaloo. With five siblings, there is too much too much-ness.

At the same time, there’s a new girl at school who is immediately popular, but she’s also not very nice to one person—Isabel.

Isabel has never felt more invisible. She has so many fears: being abandoned by her old friends at school, having to speak to strangers in public, taking the upcoming Extremely Important standardized test. Her fears feel like worry-moths that flutter in her belly. With every passing day, it seems like they get stronger and stronger. How can Invisible Isabel make people listen?

MY BIG BOOK OF HAPPY SOUNDS
By: Marion Cocklico
Published: August 20, 2024
Publisher: Twirl
Non-Fiction
Format: Interactive Board Book for review

This book is similar to My Big Book of Nature Sounds which is a favorite when our great-nephews come over to play. This one features various seasons and activities outside.

“Good morning!” Kiss kiss! Clapping and laughing… Who or what’s making that sound? Press the buttons to find out! An interactive sound book: Young readers develop important listening skills as they explore sounds and words in their language development. Whether it’s rain falling or a bird singing, children learn to recognize sounds that make them feel good and happy, and that these sounds can be found everywhere and all year round.

CLOUDS IN SPACE
Nebulae, Stardust, and Us
By: Teresa Robeson
Illustrated by: Diāna Renžina
Published: August 20, 2024
Publisher: MIT Kids Press
Non-Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

This is a great book for kids who love learning about Space.

Nebula means “cloud” in Latin, but these little-known astronomical phenomena are different from Earth’s clouds. They can be the last breaths of supernovas, spreading the elements of life far and wide, or they can be star nurseries, swirling molecules together to form stars and planets. In this gorgeous nonfiction look into the cosmos, the nebula narrator invites young astronomers to learn more about these immense space clouds, from how they form to what they do. Readers will be entranced by the vibrant illustrations, which incorporate real photographs of nebulae, and the poetic text, which reveals that we are all grown from scattered stardust. Rich back matter provides details about nebulae and how people have studied them, the nebulae pictured in the illustrations (listed as the “cast”), and resources for further learning.

ALL ABOUT U.S.
A Look at the Lives of 50 Real Kids from Across the United States
By: Matt Lamothe and Jenny Volvovski
Published: August 6, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Non-Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

I received a copy of this a few months ago, but a change in the publishing date pushed it outto August. I’m not complaining because now I can share a book with our school library and our town library. I can’t wait to share more about this book next week.

From the rocky coastline of Maine to the lush rainforests of Hawai‘i, read about the many different places American kids call home—and about 50 real kids who live there.

In Iowa, Amelia and her dad soar through the skies in their red-and-white-striped plane.
In Rhode Island, Ramon and his sisters ride scooters in the apartment building courtyard.
In Louisiana, Adrain Jr. races his dirt bike down a gravel road, speeding past cornfields.

Matt Lamothe and Jenny Volvovski document the daily lives of 50 children from America’s 50 states in this compelling companion to the award-winning picture book This Is How We Do It . Fifty unique, authentic portraits of growing up in America This illustration-packed nonfiction children’s book depicts a diverse collection of families, homes, and dreams, highlighting what makes each child’s world so unique yet also familiar. All About U.S. brings us together by celebrating the similarities and differences between kids’ day-to-day experiences across the United States.

COLOSSAL
Heavyweights of the Vehicle Universe
By: Stéphane Frattini
Illustrated by: Studio Muti
Published: August 6, 2024
Publisher: Twirl
Non-Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

For kids that love all things cars, trains, and trucks!

Find out about the largest, tallest, and most powerful transportation giants on Earth! The biggest monster truck, the tallest construction cranes, the longest trains, and many more fill the pages of this large format book. The detailed illustrations are accompanied by fascinating facts and figures about each vehicle.

THE NEXT SCIENTIST
The Unexpected Beginnings and Unwritten Future of the World’s Great Scientists
By: Kate Messner
Illustrated by: Julia Kuo
Published: August 27, 2024
Publisher: Chronicle Kids
Non-Fiction
Format: Hardcover Picture Book for review

Is there a future scientist in your house? Inspire them with this second book by Kate Messner on my list this month.

How does a kid grow up to become a scientist? This enthralling nonfiction picture book from New York Times bestselling author Kate Messner explores the unexpected beginnings behind some of the most fascinating discoveries in scientific history.Before the world’s great scientists were scientists, they were, in fact, doing all the things kids  Taking things apart,putting things together,gazing up at the night sky,drawing, imagining, building, and exploring. Things that scientists do, too. This book of unexpected beginnings powerfully shows that the great scientists of the future could be practically anyone . . . including you.

Which books are you adding to your reading list?

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So many books, so little time!