Awesome new picture books!
I just finished the book fair at my school and there were some great new books there but there are are also some amazing new picture books coming out in the next few months. Here are a few you might want to look for! The first one is called "Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist" by Jess Keating. I was already a big fan of Jess Keating's work (you know, Pink is for Blobfish?) AND a big fan of Eugenie Clark. I can remember reading Ann Martin's version of "Shark Lady" with a group of second graders and having one of my little girls hug the book to her chest and say "When I grow up, I'm going to be an ichthyologist". So a picture book version of this one is bound to be awesome and it is. The pictures (in my e-book advanced reader's copy version) are a bit cartoon-y but in a friendly way. You can completely feel Eugenie's energy and curiosity shining through them. The text...