Laura Perdew is an author, writing consultant, and former middle school teacher. She has written more than 30 books for the education market on a wide range of subjects including, wetlands conservation, renewable energy, animal adaptations, and extinction. Her book Biodiversity: Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth (Nomad Press, 2019) earned a Booklist starred review and was a Junior Library Guild selection. Laura is a long-time member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and an avid runner and hiker. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. Shululu (Hui Li) has always been driven by curiosity. She is the illustrator of several nonfiction picture books from Nomad Press. She earned a PhD in computational chemistry from the University of Chicago and her research has been published in the world's most influential science journals, including Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She lives with her family in New York, New York.
Praise for other books by Laura Perdew Biodiversity
Explore the Diversity of Life on Earth with Environmental Science
Activities for Kids
Booklist
Top 10 Nonfiction Series for 2020
Build It Environmental Science (4 titles) Gr. 4-8. Mixing comics
and thoughtfully designed activities with solid information, this
series accessibly explores with precision such topics as
biodiversity, biomes, and Earth's garbage problem.Read more online.
Booklist
Top 10 Books on the Environment & Sustainability
for Youth: 2020
Activities and accessible text bring the importance and complexity
of biodiversity to upper-elementary and middle-school
students.Booklist Starred Review
Nomad applies its dependable activity-book format to the new Build
It Environmental Science series (4 titles). Here
biodiversity is placed under the microscope--sometimes
literally--in a text that makes daunting concepts, such as
evolution, levels of biodiversity (genetic, species, or ecosystem),
and why biodiversity matters, easy to understand without
sacrificing scientific precision. . . By book's end, readers will
truly understand what biodiversity is, its importance to the health
of the planet, and humans' impact on the complex natural systems
where it thrives. Extinction: What Happened to the Dinosaurs,
Mastodons, and Dodo Birds? National Science Teachers Association
Recommends
This book uses the concept of extinction to teach a little
chemistry, a little climatology, paleontology, biology
(biodiversity), ecology, and a lot of geology. The science
information is historical and current, drawing on three-dimensional
learning, incorporating science practices to determine what factors
affect extinction in general and specifically. The integration of
concepts help bring the science alive and relevant.
Kirkus The universe brags about one of its best and
favorite parts. Depicted as human with lightly toned skin and
billows of black hair a-glimmer with stars, Universe squires two
wisecracking ETs past the planets (a pretty neat system, if I do
say so myself), then recaps the history of this one from hot,
bubbly, gassy mess through the development of life to the
appearances of satellites and pizza. In simple language she
explains the roles oceans, the water cycle, and our planet's
placement in the Goldilocks zone played in the appearance of us. If
she sounds a note of warning about the need to fix pollution and
other hazards to life, it only briefly dims her conviction that we
will indeed step up. Heavenly bodies, microorganisms, and, on later
pages, racially diverse groups of children sport bright, googly
eyes and benevolent smiles in the cartoon illustrations. In
co-published tours that echo the upbeat tone, Universe presents
viewers with basic introductions to The Moon (our
Small-but-Mighty Neighbor), the life cycles of a gazillion
Stars, and our own Shining Star, The Sun. Each outing
ends with general directions for a relevant activity (for Earth,
creating a terrarium) and, injecting the Art into STEAM, opens with
an earnest poem. With its companions, breezy flyovers with light
but sound informational payloads. (glossary) (Informational
picture book. 7-9.)
Praise for other books in the Picture Book Science
series Forces: Physical Science for Kids, by
Andi Diehn Booklist Starred Review March 15, 2018
Forces, despite its down-to-earth scientific grounding,
manages to do the nearly impossible. Diehn brings gravity,
magnetism, push-pull forces, and friction to life in everyday
contexts, without a hint of schoolroom jargon. Children, parents,
and teachers alike can enjoy learning the charming, often funny,
relatable, and accessible science within this Picture Book Science
series (4 titles) offering.
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