Pub Date: September 12, 2017
Dewey: 001.944
LCCN: 2017904671
Lexile Code: 0760
Features: Bibliography, Maps
Target Age Group: 06 to 12
Physical Info: 0.10" H x 8.20" L x 8.30" W ( 0.25 lbs) 34 pages
Description:
Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a news flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island. A non-political fake news story for kids.
Brief description: AUTHOR - DARCY PATTISON Children's book author Darcy Pattison finds inspiration in writing about science, nature and history; twice her books have been honored as NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books. Her nature picture books include Abayomi, the Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Cub (Mims House), an NSTA 2015 Outstanding Science Trade Book; Wisdom, the Midway Albatross: Surviving the Japanese Tsunami and Other Disasters for Over 60 Years (Mims House), a starred review in Publisher's Weekly; Desert Baths (Arbordale), an NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book 2013; and, Prairie Storms (Arbordale). Burn: Michael Faraday's Candle (Mims House, Spring 2016) is a physical science book about how a candle burns, based on Michael Faraday's famous 1848 juvenile Christmas lecture. Other picture books include The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt), which received an Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature Honor Book award, starred reviews in BCCB and Kirkus, and has been published in a Houghton Mifflin textbook; Searching for Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt); 19 Girls and Me (Philomel); and 11 Ways to Ruin a Photograph: A Military Family Story (Mims House). Her series, The ALIEN, INC. CHAPTER BOOK SERIES includes Kell, the Alien; Kell and the Horse Apple Parade; Kell and the Giants; and Kell and the Detectives. She is also the author of middle grade novels and teaches nationally a Novel Revision Retreat. For more, see darcypattison.com/about