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Did you know that May is Get Caught Reading month? Why not get caught reading some great science books and do some hands-on activities, too?

Carrots Grow Underground by Mari Schuh

Reading level: Beginning/Easy Reader (Ages 4-8)

Summary: Describes and illustrates the life cycle of carrots and other root vegetables using appropriate first-grade vocabulary. Contains Glossary, Read More, Internet Sites and Index.

Illustrations: Color photographs

Comments: The formatting is perfect for the age group. The illustrations are yummy, and are consistent with one another in composition. Makes you want to get out there and plant some seeds, or even better, eat some fresh vegetables.

Related activities:

Serve carrots and other root vegetables as snacks after reading these books (preferably whole carrots)
Find an appropriate container or plot of soil and plant some carrot seeds
Carrot life cycle and activities
Review and activities at Simply Science

Compatible fiction: The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

Publisher: Capstone Press; Pebble Books (January 2, 2011)
ISBN-10: 1429661852
ISBN-13: 978-1429661850

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Next title to be reviewed: Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw by Elaine Scott

Be sure to look for more information about children’s books at today’s Book Talk Tuesday.

As thoughts turn to summer, parents and children might be looking for fun science books to read, especially ones with accompanying hands-on activities.

For the next few weeks I am going to review a number of children’s science books with suggested activities. As the review posts go up, I will add links to them here to create a master list. The links below will take you to reviews and activities for each title.

(If you have any blog posts about interesting children’s science books you would like included, feel free to leave a link in the comments.)

All these books can be found at your local library.

Science Picture Books:

	Insect Detective by Steve Voake and illustrated by Charlotte Voake
	The Chiru of High Tibet: A True Story by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and illustrated by Linda Wingerter
	Planting the Wild Garden by Kathryn O. Galbraith and illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin
	A Butterfly Is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston and illustrated by Sylvia Long
	Hip-Pocket Papa by Sandra Markle and illustrated by Alan Marks
	Seabird in the Forest written and illustrated by Joan Dunning

A longer list of Children’s Science Picture Books

Science Beginning/Easy Readers:

	Carrots Grow Underground by Mari Schuh
	Blueberries Grow on a Bush by Mari Schuh
	From Tadpole To Frog by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

Science Books for Upper Elementary:

	Bat Researcher by Michael Burgan
	Orb Weavers by Sandra Markle
	The Krakatau Eruption by Peter Benoit

Middle Grade Science:

	The Bat Scientists by Mary Kay Carson
	The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe is in the fabulous Scientists in the Field series, by Lorre Griffin Burns, with photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz.
	Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery and photographs by Nic Bishop won the Sibert Award.
	Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw by Elaine Scott
	13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System by David A. Aguilar
	The Elephant Scientist by Caitlin O’Connell and Donna M. Jackson with photographs by the first author and her husband, Timothy Rodwell
	Here at Wrapped in Foil, we review Dinosaur Discovery: Everything You Need to Be a Paleontologist by Chris McGowan and illustrated by Erica Lyn Schmidt

Another List of Middle Grade and Young Adult Science books

Science Experiment Collections:

	The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science: 50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists by Sean Connolly recently won the 2011 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books in the hands on science category.
	Junior Scientists: Experiments with Seeds by Susan H. Gray, best for grades 2-3
	Science Experiments That Fizz and Bubble: Fun Projects for Curious Kids by Jodi Wheeler-Toppen