Earth Day Every Day!
Title: Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes
Author: Nicola Davies
Illustrator: Emily Sutton
Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2014 (US)
Themes: Science, Second person, STEAM, Microbes
Opening Lines: You know about big animals, and you know about small animals . . .but do you know that there are creatures so tiny that millions could fit on this ant's antenna?
Why I believe you will LOVE this Book:
As we live through this Pandemic with Covid-19, microbes are taking a front seat in our fear and desire to understand. This picture book provides an understanding of microbes, the good, the bad, the pretty, and the ugly.
This book helps readers grasp the benefits and dangers of microbes. It helps us grasp that they come in many shapes and sizes. There are many more healthy microbes than the bad ones.
Emily Sutton's watercolor illustrations are beautiful and help to make a kind of scary topic less scary.
This is one of those books that you may not pick up on any old average day, but once you do pick it up, I think you will go back to it even when we have any old average days again.
Resources and Activities:
Here is a video of the book being read aloud.
An inspiring video interview with Nicola Davies.
Nicola's Website
Emily Sutton's Website
Learn more about Microbiology
This video is current and puts the health of our earth into relationship with the health of humankind.
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