Today I’m
finishing up my posts for 2020 with my annual list of favorite STEM books. This
year’s list includes fifteen titles because I just couldn’t narrow it down to
ten. It was a stellar year for nonfiction, and for STEM titles in particular.
Six of the books
appeared on from my #SibertSmackdown
list a few weeks ago:
Being Frog by April Pulley Sayre
Crossings:
Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals by Katy S. Duffield
Dream
Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons
Honeybee:
The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming
Tiny
Monsters: The Strange Creatures
That Live on Us, in Us, and Around Us by Steve Jenkins
You’re
Invited to a Moth Ball by Loree
Griffin Burns
I’m also including eight additional titles that you won’t want to miss:
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave
Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
The
Great Bear Rescue: Saving the Gobi Bears by Sandra Markle
If You Take Away the Otter by Susannah Buhrmann-Deever
Jumbo:
The Making of the Boeing 747 by Chris Gall
Oil by Jonah Winter
Small Matters:
Then Hidden Powers of the Unseen by Heather Ferranti Kinser
Tracking
Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem by Kate Messner
Who
Gives a Poop? Surprising Science from One End to the Other by Heather Montgomery
Whooo Knew? The Truth About Owls by Annette Whipple
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3 Responses
Oh my goodness! To be included with these fabulous books and authors is an honor, Melissa. THANK YOU!
There's only a couple of these I didn't already have on my read/to-read list…putting them on now!
Such a great list! Thank you for sharing, Melissa!