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admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:44:58 +0000

Wyoming Reads! Thanks to the Sue Jorgensen Library Foundation, approximately 7,000 Wyoming 1st Graders will receive a free hardback book. They can choose from six books and one of them is Vulture View! They will receive the books at one of 35 celebrations on May 19th.

http://www.natronacountylibrary.org/wyreads.html

Honk, Honk Goose is reviewed in Horn Book, Booklist, Kirkus, and Science Books & Films this year. So take a look at those wonderful print and online publications. Online, my google alerts have been popping up things, too. See the news:

Here’s an article about my recent visit to Marquette. I’ll be blogging about that next week.

Award-winning author speaks to area students – MiningJournal.net …
MARQUETTE – Sounds of humpback whales, monkeys and birds echoed off the walls at Northern Michigan University this week as area elementary school students listened to visiting author April Pulley Sayre. …
The Mining Journal – http://www.miningjournal.net/

Lori Calabrese reviews Vulture View at examiner.com here:

http://www.examiner.com/x-7597-Childrens-Books-Examiner~y2009m4d8-Vulture-view

The Children’s Book Review: Honk, Honk, Goose! Canada Geese Start …
By Amanda Lynch
Honk, Honk, Goose! Canada Geese Start a Family by April Pulley Sayre (Author) and Huy Voun Lee (Illustrator) Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (April 14, 2009) What to Expect: Geese, Animals, …
The Children’s Book Review – http://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/weblog/

A Who-Eats-What Adventure « SimplyScience Blog
By slduke
Draw arrows to show the direction of energy flow. For more food chain activities, visit me and see the lessons I presented at TLAApril 1. The lessons will be up for about a week longer. Trout Are Made of Trees by April Pulley Sayre …
SimplyScience Blog – http://simplyscience.wordpress.com/

The South Bend Tribune article about my work, entitled “Not All Children’s Books Feature Talking Animals”

is only available for a fee on digest. The article was in April, 2009.

South Bend Tribune – South Bend,IN,USA

A children’s author for 17 years, April Pulley Sayre writes science and geography books for fifth- through eighth-graders. She also writes “playful, …

A mother blogs about Shadows here:

Purple People Eater: Shadows by April Pulley Sayre
By Danielle Sauerbrei
Shadows by April Pulley Sayre. I picked up this book because of the amazing illustrations on the front cover. I have always really enjoyed art that was made with acrylics and this one was just so colorful and beautiful. …
Purple People Eater – http://dsauerbrei.blogspot.com/

Honk, Honk, Goose! Canada Geese Start a Family

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:19:43 +0000

Honk, Honk, Goose: Canada Geese Start a Family debuts April 14, 2009.

Life Cycles

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:09:21 +0000

Let’s learn about life cycles. How does a toad survive in the desert? Let’s find out.

Another animal lays eggs in sand, too-not in the desert, but on a beach. The mother animal weighs as much as a refrigerator full of food. Can you guess the animal?

Sea turtle mothers lay their eggs and leave them. The hatchlings must fend for themselves. But another kind of creature guards its eggs and the hatchlings.

Another has to begin the year by finding a home and building a colony.

And here is an animal family with a parent who takes protecting the young very seriously!

Honk, Honk, Goose

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Recent Press and Blogs

Honk, Honk, Goose! Canada Geese Start a Family

Life Cycles