Smithsonian Everything You Need to Know fact cards!
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These books, guides, and cards offer interesting trivia and facts, engaging formats, and lively illustrations; a perfect combination to pique interest for hours of casual reading, followed by days of reciting trivia, and hopefully, years of knowledge about these important people in American history.
After reading so many books with talking bunnies and dogs, of mice that look cuddly and sweet, of mischievous cats and raccoons, it’s a relief, of sorts, to enter the world of realism, especially one that has the stamp of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution. The realism comes if not through the photographs, then through the information.
Earth Hour is on March 27—that’s tomorrow—at 8:30pm (local time). Here are a couple of book suggestions that make the hot-topic of climate change, kid friendly: