My Favorite Things…Information Picture Book Edition, Pt. 4

More of my favorite Information Picture Books! What is great about these? I learn in just a few pages the things I NEVER learned in school.

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In her debut picture book, Misty Copeland tells the story of a young girl–an every girl–whose confidence is fragile and who is questioning her own ability to reach the heights that Misty has reached. Misty encourages this young girl’s faith in herself and shows her exactly how, through hard work and dedication, she too can become Firebird.

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Firebird – Audiobook Download
from: AudiobooksNow

Composer Stravinsky and choreographer Nijinsky, Russian comrades, worked together to bring a very different and new ballet to a Parisian audience–and rioting filled the streets!

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As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India’s Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals.

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Presents the water cycle through the journey of a raindrop around the world, in sky, on land, underground, and in the sea, in its liquid, solid, and vapor forms, as it supports life everywhere.

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Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat. 

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Youngest Marcher, The: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist – Audiobook Download – $4.99 Youngest Marcher, The: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist – Audiobook Download – Author: Cynthia Levinson; Narrator: Tyla Collier; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download)

Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.

This story recounts Kahlo’s beloved pets–two monkeys, a parrot, three dogs, two turkeys, an eagle, a black cat, and a fawn–and playfully considers how she embodied many wonderful characteristics of each animal.

Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos – Audiobook Download – $4.99 Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos – Audiobook Download – Author: Monica Brown, Ph.D.; Narrator: Adriana Sananes; Format: Audio Book (Digital Audiobook Download)

More on the way!

Kids and Teen Books at chroniclebooks.com

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