A Pocket Guide to Paleontology
How the Pros Dig Dinos
Career education is becoming more prevalent in modern day schooling, so I propose creating a line of educational books for elementary school children ages 5-10 about career opportunities. in each book, the Martinez family and their dog would learn about a specific career. The children, a boy and a girl, would be equally interested as to not reinforce restricted gender norms. Girls can be chemists and boys can be nurses.
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A Pocket Guide to Paleontology: How the Pros Dig Dinos is for children interested in dinosaurs to learn more about how the study of dinosaurs could become their career. In this book, a family of three come across a dinosaur bone while on a hike with their dog. The family become citizen scientists and help with the excavation process of the dinosaur fossil. This story follows the fossil from the moment of discovery to the assembly in the museum.
The Little Astronaut's Alphabet
Learn your ABCs and space vocabulary with your little scientist! The Little Astronaut's Alphabet gives vibrant illustrations of the vocabulary word and definitions.
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All drawings are made in the Procreate App on the iPad using various watercolor and pastel brushes to gain a grainy, layered texture. Lettering is done by hand.
Whose Home is This?
As a kid, my parents took me on hikes and taught me all about the natural world. I was always asking about the different plants and animals. I wanted to know where the different animals lived and why. Why do birds live in nests? How you can you tell a snake's hole from a burrow from a warren? Whose Home is This broaches these questions in a peaceful walk through the woods.
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A little girl takes a walk through the forest and learns all about natural habitats. In every pair of pages, she discovers something like a nest of twigs or a little hole in the ground. Then, she learns about what kind of animals lives there like a song bird or a warren of rabbits. At the end of the book, she returns home to her beautiful cabin in the forest for lunch.
