The Natures of John and William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter telescope Sneaky pirates

Sneaky pirates

Rachel hopes this book will inspire kids to ask questions about their world and to explore science and nature

Jan Brett's beloved character Hedgie stars in this charming story about a little Tomten who gets tired of porridge for breakfast and starts stealing Henny's eggs

in plain English

The Natures of John and William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter telescope Sneaky piratesJohn Bartram (1699 1777), the first native born American to devote his entire life to the study of nature, was an eminently practical man, a scientist devoted to the rigorous description of living things. Among his subjects was the Venus flytrap, along with hundreds of species of plants and animals, fully one quarter of all the plants identified and sent to Europe during the colonial period. His son William (1739 1823) was a pioneering naturalist who