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Wild about books: A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake. Tomaas and the library lady: While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tom?as finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library. A fmaily of poems: An anthology of poems celebrating poetry's ability to connect us like family.
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Night catch: When a soldier's work takes him halfway around the world, he enlists the help of the North Star for a nightly game of catch with his son. On Earth: Learn about Earth's cycles of rotation and revolution, plus how they affect our lives through the days and seasons. Me on the map: A child describes how her room, her house, her town, her state, and her country become part of a map of her world. Space: A study of the scientific subject of...
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To a four-year-old watching bulldozers or chasing butterflies in a field, the world is awash with promise. Children come hardwired to learn in virtually any setting and about anything. Yet in today's preschools and kindergartens, learning has been reduced to scripted lessons and suspect metrics that undervalue children's intelligence while overtaxing their growing brains.
