Charlie is starting to get excited about reading. So the other day when we was at the Library he wanted to recheck out “Lucy Long Ago” and “The Body Book’ to take to school with him. Only both books was checked out.
So as start to purchase items for Christmas for Charlie I can’t wait to pick up these two books. As I know Charlie will sit down and read them. And it will help Charlie improve his reading. And that is something we have to do. As the school says he isn’t on the level he should be on.
I thought I would share Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From and also The Busy Body Book. If your children have read these books what did they think of them and can they read them on there own?
Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came From
Illustrated in full color throughout with stunning computer-generated artwork and with rare paleo photography, this story of scientific sleuthing invites us to wonder what our ancestors were like.
From the discovery of Lucy’s bones in Hadar, Ethiopia, to the process of recovering and interpreting them (a multidisciplinary approach with contributions from paleontologists, paleoanthropologists, archeologists, geologists and geochronologists), this book shows how a pile of 47 bones led scientists to discover a new — and, at 3.2 million years old, a very very old — species of hominid, ancestral to humans.
Scientists involved include: James Aronson, geochronologist at Dartmouth, NH John Gurche, paleoartist at Cornell, NY Donald Johansen, Scientist at Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University Owen Lovejoy, biological Snthropologist at Kent State, Ohio Dirk Van Tuerenhout at Houston’s Museum of Natural Science, Texas.
A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move!
Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move.
Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and tumble through these pages with such exuberance that even sprouting couch potatoes will want to get up and bounce around—and that’s the ultimate goal.
Studies show that American kids are becoming more sedentary and more overweight and that they carry these tendencies with them into adolescence and adulthood.
Experts agree that we need to help kids make physical activity a life-long habit. Through education, information, and encouragement, this book aims to inspire a new generation of busy bodies!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
