Tag: non-fiction

Six Earth Day Picture Books that Celebrate Our Planet (+ Giveaway)

Sophie Brown

<img data-attachment-id="328447" data-permalink="https://geekmom.com/2020/04/earth-day-picture-books/earth-day-books-2020-images-wide-eyed-editions/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/Earth-Day-Books-2020-Images-Wide-Eyed-Editions.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1200,675" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Earth Day Books 2020, Images Wide Eyed Editions" data-image-description=" Earth Day Books 2020, Images Wide Eyed Editions ” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/Earth-Day-Books-2020-Images-Wide-Eyed-Editions.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/Earth-Day-Books-2020-Images-Wide-Eyed-Editions.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1″ class=”size-full wp-image-328447″ src=”https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/Earth-Day-Books-2020-Images-Wide-Eyed-Editions.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&ssl=1″ alt=”Earth Day Books 2020, Images Wide Eyed Editions” width=”1200″ height=”675″ data-recalc-dims=”1″ />Earth Day Books 2020, Images Wide Eyed Editions It’s Earth Day again and to […]

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Tackle Your TBR Pile and Join the #StayHomeReadingRush

Sophie Brown

<img data-attachment-id=”328424″ data-permalink=”https://geekmom.com/2020/04/stayhomereadingrush/the-reading-rush-logo-image-reading-rush/” data-orig-file=”https://i2.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/The-Reading-Rush-Logo-Image-Reading-Rush.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1″ data-orig-size=”1200,675″ data-comments-opened=”1″ data-image-meta=”{“aperture”:”0″,”credit”:””,”camera”:””,”caption”:””,”created_timestamp”:”0″,”copyright”:””,”focal_length”:”0″,”iso”:”0″,”shutter_speed”:”0″,”title”:””,”orientation”:”1″}” data-image-title=”The Reading Rush Logo, Image Reading Rush” data-image-description=” The Reading Rush Logo, Image Reading Rush ” data-medium-file=”https://i2.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/The-Reading-Rush-Logo-Image-Reading-Rush.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i2.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/The-Reading-Rush-Logo-Image-Reading-Rush.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1″ class=”size-full wp-image-328424″ src=”https://i2.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/04/The-Reading-Rush-Logo-Image-Reading-Rush.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&ssl=1″ alt=”The Reading Rush Logo, Image Reading Rush” width=”1200″ height=”675″ data-recalc-dims=”1″ />The Reading Rush Logo, Image Reading Rush

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The Best of Between the Bookends: Our Top Picks from 2019

Sophie Brown

<img data-attachment-id="325365" data-permalink="https://geekmom.com/2019/12/best-bookends-2019/the-best-of-between-the-bookends-2019/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/12/The-Best-of-Between-the-Bookends-2019.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1000,563" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="The Best of Between the Bookends 2019, Image: Sophie Brown" data-image-description=" The Best of Between the Bookends 2019, Image: Sophie Brown ” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/12/The-Best-of-Between-the-Bookends-2019.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/12/The-Best-of-Between-the-Bookends-2019.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1″ class=”wp-image-325365 size-full” src=”https://i0.wp.com/geekmom.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/12/The-Best-of-Between-the-Bookends-2019.jpg?resize=1000%2C563&ssl=1″ alt=”The Best of Between the Bookends 2019, Image: Sophie Brown, Harald Heuser and Wixin Lubhon from Pixabay” width=”1000″ height=”563″ data-recalc-dims=”1″ />The […]

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Educational Picture books

Stack Overflow: Careful, You Might Learn Something (Part 1)

Jonathan H. Liu

Continuing on my not-a-year-end-list series… most of the books I read are fiction, whether they’re comics, adult fiction, picture books, stories I’m reading to my kids. I always have big plans to read more non-fiction, but it just doesn’t happen quite as much. Still, there are a lot of books that teach you something, and you can learn from fiction and non-fiction. With that in mind, I’ve got a lot of cool books that taught us something or made us think about a topic in a new way.

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Book Review: The Hive Detectives

GeekMom

I love bees. We should all know and love bees. Children, especially, should get to know them–they are indispensable. Honey and beeswax lip balm are the least of it. Bees pollinate flowers, and flowers contain the seeds that enable plants to reproduce. Plants that provide food such strawberries, blueberries, oranges, lemons, limes, cherries, cranberries, cantaloupes, […]

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