Trout Are Made of Trees Grand Canyon Readers
Monday, March 29th, 2010Trout Are Made of Trees has been nominated for the 2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award so lots of AZ schoolchildren will be reading it next school year. Hooray!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Trout Are Made of Trees has been nominated for the 2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award so lots of AZ schoolchildren will be reading it next school year. Hooray!
Shirley Duke recently presented this food web and food chain activity at the Texas Library Association Convention. She’s generously letting me post the entire activity for download here.
Trout Are Made of Trees, by April Pulley Sayre. Illustrated by Kate Endle
ISBN: 978-1-58089-137-0 Charlesbridge
Grade Level: 3-5
Subject: Science: Food Chain, System Interactions, Processes Within Systems, Consequences of Removing Vital Components
Prepared by: Shirley Duke www.simplyscience.wordpress.com; www.shirleysmithduke.com
A few more photos from Lexington School District in SC. I was there for 9 days of talks including a weekend READ Fest, a community event put on by the extraordinary school librarians of this district.
Here’s a link to a blog that asks Kate Endle about her art, including the art she did for our book, Trout Are Made of Trees. Hooray, Kate!
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Blush about them calling me a nonfiction goddess
From Hamilton School, some extraordinary art and thought!
This has been a great year. VULTURE VIEW was named a Theodor Geisel Honor book by the American Library Association.
This relatively new award is named after Dr. Seuss and it honors both the text and illustrations of books geared for children beginning to read. I am thrilled and so happy for my work to be paired with the great illustrations done by Steve Jenkins. I attended the ALA national conference in Anaheim to accept the Honor Award. (more…)
Here is the Be a Stream Hero Contest Flyer for grades K-2.
Deadline is December 31, 2008.
Winner receives a huge collection of new books and a school visit by April Pulley Sayre
anywhere in the U. S.
I have teamed up with Charlesbridge publishing, the publisher of this book, and created the Be a Stream Hero contest. The winner of the contest wins a school visit from me.
In fact, in honor of Trout Are Made of Trees, Charlesbridge publishing staff spent a day cleaning up the Charles river! (more…)
April Pulley Sayre is an award-winning children’s book author of over 55 natural history books for children and adults. Her read-aloud nonfiction books, known for their lyricism and scientific precision, have been translated into French, Dutch, Japanese, and Korean. She is best known for pioneering literary ways to immerse young readers in natural events via creative storytelling and unusual perspectives.