Jason Chin
2) Gravity
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"What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
3) Redwoods
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English
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A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
4) Watercress
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English
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BEST BOOKS 2021
Caldecott Award Winners
Diverse Books - East & Southeast Asians
Main Children's Staff Picture Book Favorites
Caldecott Award Winners
Diverse Books - East & Southeast Asians
Main Children's Staff Picture Book Favorites
Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
8) Coral reefs
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"During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there." -- From publisher.
10) Gravity
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English
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The complex subject of gravity is made brilliantly accessible to young viewers in this unusual, innovative video adaptation of Jason Chin's picture book.