An Elephant Grows Up

An Elephant Grows Up
by Anastasia Suen (Wild Animals series)

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Hardcover / Paperback: 24 pages

Publisher: Picture Window Books

Under the hot African sun, a baby elephant is born. The calf looks small next to her mother, but she weighs more than 200 pounds. Her days will be filled with lots of eating—this calf has a lot of growing left to do. What else happens when an elephant grows up?

Science Books and Films Best Book of 2006

Photos:

Watch San Diego Zoo’s Elephant Cam and meet all 11 elephants.

See all 25 elephant photos in the AWF media gallery.

Activities:

Find your way through the elephant maze.

Try a baby elephant dot-to-dot, an ABC elephant dot-to-dot, and an online elephant dot-to-dot.

Set your own level of difficulty in this online elephant puzzle.

Select the number/shape of the pieces for this elephant puzzle.

Make a 3-d elephant or an elephant counting book.

Color the elephants in M.E. and Me’s Africa Coloring Book.

Visit the Elephant Coloring pages at First School.

Use the six trait writing mini-lessons for this book to inspire your students to write their own animal life cycle stories.


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Willie’s Birthday

Willie’s Birthday by Anastasia Suen
A pet birthday party easy reader

Happy birthday, Willie!

Willie is Peter’s dog, and today is his birthday. Everyone is invited to a party for him. But since the guest list includes both kids and their pets, this will be no ordinary celebration!

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Paperback: 32 pages

Publisher: Puffin (June 10, 2002)

Activities:

Dog Birthday Parties has cakes, treats, and party games for six different dog party themes.

Try these recipes for your dog.

Betty Crocker’s Pet Lover’s Birthday Party has pet-themed activities, decorations and food.

Find a pet birthday e-card. (Some have animals that sing!)

Add your pet to the pet birthdays list at Pet Birthday Party.com

Peter’s Neighborhood series book activities:
maze, word search (and answer key)

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Mr. Strike Out

Mr. Strike Out by Anastasia Suen (writing as Jake Maddox)
A baseball novel

David Gray is notorious in his baseball league, notorious for striking out, both as a pitcher and a batter. He spends so much time practicing his pitching, he has never honed his batting skills. After learning about the great Babe Ruth, David becomes determined to be a better all-around player, which means he’ll have to learn how to bat. With some help from a teammate, David hopes to never hear the words “Mr. Strike Out” again.

Reading level: Ages 9-12

Library Binding / Paperback: 72 pages

Publisher: Stone Arch Books (September 1, 2006)

Photos:

See game photos and watch video clips at MLB.com

Watch the Video Biographies of all 176 members of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Activities:

Play Math Baseball (If your answer is correct, you will get a hit!)

Explore the Science of Baseball. Test your baseball reaction time, learn how to throw a curveball and how to find the “sweet spot” on a bat.

Baseball Printables has baseball mazes, a baseball word search, a baseball dot-to-dot, a baseball tracing page and lots of baseball coloring pages.

Design your own baseball cap at Kaboose.

At Teachers Corner, you can print baseball journal pages, and create your own baseball crossword, word search or word scramble pages.

Find out what happened Today in Baseball History.

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Man on the Moon

Man on the Moon by Anastasia Suen
An Apollo 11 moon landing picture book

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Paperback: 32 pages

Publisher: Puffin (March 18, 2002)

Photos:

NASA’s photos of Apollo 11.

See three Apollo 11 videos:

Watch the earth launch, the moon landing, and the first step on the moon.

See and hear the Apollo 11 Mission at the History Place.

Activities:

Create your own Moon Art with the Eagle moon lander (above).

Use the Six Trait Writing mini-lesson at Picture Book of the Day.

For lesson plans and more, visit Challenging the Space Frontier

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