Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, Elephants, and Birds
...on a ship off Hawaii, Christopher Clark lowers a special microphone into the ocean to listen to whales singing. He also analyzes secret recordings from hundreds of ocean microphones the navy uses to...
View ArticleEl Niño and La Niña: Weather in the Headlines
Floods. Droughts. Heavy snow storms. Dying coral reefs. Dry deserts that suddenly bloom. In 1997 and 1998, dramatic weather events and weather-related events were in the headlines almost every day.
View ArticleThe Seven Continents series
Middle school students can learn the ecology of each continent in depth with this series of books: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. Africa . . . . . . . ....
View ArticlePut On Some Antlers And Walk Like a Moose
Do you know a raccoon by its smell? A deer by its tracks? The difference between the call of a tree frog and the call of a bird? To find animals, many field scientists work like detectives, looking for...
View ArticleEndangered Birds of North America
To save endangered whooping cranes, people will do some seemingly zany things. in Wisconsin, a woman dresses up in a whooping crane costume.
View ArticleExploring Earth’s Biomes series
Desert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2825-0 Temperate Deciduous Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2828-5 Tropical Rain Forest . . . . . ISBN 0-8050-2826-9 Coral Reef ....
View ArticleThanks, Oprah! (And Expert Librarians)
Rah, Rah, Radishes is on Oprah’s Kids’ Reading List 2012, ages 4-7! What I love is that Oprah.com had serious children’s book experts, folks at ALA-CBC, ALSC choose the 25 books on this list. So the...
View ArticleUpcoming Appearances
Just returned from co-presenting “Read Aloud Wow” with Isabel Baker at NAEYC’s national leadership conference. This Sat, June 23rd, I’ll be signing at the South Bend Farmer’s Market 9am-12. Here’s...
View ArticleThose Mysterious Fruit on the Tree
I received this inquiry regarding my new book, GO, GO, GRAPES: A Fruit Chant: Dear Ms. Sayre, Would you kindly tell me what kind of fruit is pictured on the page that reads: “treats from trees and from...
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Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant released
Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant, my new book, was released by Beach Lane Books, a division of Simon & Schuster today. Please join me in eating some fruit to salute designer Lauren Rille for her...
View ArticleStars Beneath Your Bed and Science Standards
Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust is a natural for fulfilling the new science standards. That’s one of the things I learned when I attended NSTA and spoke on a panel of authors...
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Cherimoya
Jeff and I were first introduced to this fruit on a long guided bus ride through Ecuador. The driver stopped by a fruit stand, bought some cherimoya, cut it up and offered it to all the passengers. The...
View ArticleNew Bumblebee Publication
Kids and educators intrigued by my book The Bumblebee Queen, there’s finally a truly great publication I can send you to for follow up. This has been on my wish-some-expert-would-write-this dream list...
View ArticleVegetable Art, Trout Trees and More!
I had the pleasure of visiting Pioneer Elementary in March. Wow, the art teacher was a burst of creativity, working on such incredible projects with the kids. Many other teachers were doing amazing...
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Durian Fruit: The Smelly Prize
Durian, oh prickly one. Here’s a photo of the durian that the kind folks at Saigon Market allowed me to create in the back of their store. When I created this photo, it was in a stanza that involved...
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The Huckleberry Confusion
The Huckleberry Confusion—is it a novel? No. It’s just that huckleberry is a slippery word. It refers to various berries of the Vaccinium genus. (Blueberries are also in the Vaccinium genus.) In the...
View ArticleGo, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant
Rah, rah, raspberries! Go, go, grapes! Prepare yourselves. Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant will be released May 22, 2012. I’m proud of the luscious photos, which were taken primarily at our local...
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Learning Fruits and French
Last summer we visited the Jean-Talon Market in Montréal. Don’t go too early, as we did, because most of the farmers arrive a bit later than our farmers here in the Midwest. But wow, the displays are...
View ArticleWhat’s Hiding in Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant
Try hunting for these vegetables, words, and objects that appear in the photos with fruit. A red checkered tablecloth A molcajete, a large stone version of a mortar and pestle. I bought this one at El...
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Fruit and Go Seek
Fruit-and-Go-Seek! Here’s a list of fruits and fruit parts in the last spread of Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant (Release date: May 22, 2012) Find them in the book if you can! (more…)
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