1st & 2nd Grade - The Cat in the Ghat
The story is inspired by the real-life expeditions of National Geographic explorer, photographer and filmmaker Sandesh Kadur in search of the elusive Pogeyan in the Western Ghats. In the beautifully illustrated picture book, Uncle Sandy (Sandesh Kadur) searches for the mysterious cat, and meets many animals, tribesmen, and….will he meet that cat?
The book name Cat in the Ghat is no accident, it’s a beautiful Dr Seuss style rhyme, where we learn more about life in the Western Ghats, and Sandesh Kadur’s aim of helping people protect and appreciate nature. Each page has beautiful water colour images, befitting of the topic.
This book makes a great starting point for some nature study into conservation and about the animals and environment in the Western Ghats in India. Children could also look up more about Sandesh and his continued search for the Pogeyan.
The book name Cat in the Ghat is no accident, it’s a beautiful Dr Seuss style rhyme, where we learn more about life in the Western Ghats, and Sandesh Kadur’s aim of helping people protect and appreciate nature. Each page has beautiful water colour images, befitting of the topic.
This book makes a great starting point for some nature study into conservation and about the animals and environment in the Western Ghats in India. Children could also look up more about Sandesh and his continued search for the Pogeyan.
| thecatintheghat.pdf |
3rd and 4th Grade
Prism Palace is the story of a little girl who gets a prism for her birthday and learns alot about light and how it bends and forms a rainbow. Tess Renee gets more than she bargained for with her new birthday present, a light fairy, a rainbow elf, and a lot of knowledge about light wavelengths and how the rainbow (ROY G BIV) is formed. This beautifully illustrated children’s tale tells a story that combines fantasy with scientific knowledge.
The author, Cindi Leacock is a science writer who is passionate about teaching science to children. This book makes a wonderful STEM book for girls too, since the main character is a little girl, and there is wonderful fairytale style explanations.
The author, Cindi Leacock is a science writer who is passionate about teaching science to children. This book makes a wonderful STEM book for girls too, since the main character is a little girl, and there is wonderful fairytale style explanations.
| prismpalace.pdf |
5th & 6th Grade - Bronia and the bowls of soup
Bronia and the Bowls of Soup is a short tale of a young girl’s experience growing up in the ghettos and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Bronia is a normal Jewish kid at Grade school in Poland, her family owns a small clothing shop and life is stable and happy. As Germany invades Poland her life is thrown into turmoil. First they are in ghettos in Poland with nothing but the clothes on their back, then shipped to German concentration camps (Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen where she is made to work. Throughout the 6 years of war Bronia survives by keeping her spirits high and by helping everyone around her with bowls of soup and dollops of care and laughter. This is a survivor story that will have you in tears as you imagine how someone so young survived such life threatening events with her life when many didn’t, and did so by giving away her own soup, her own subsistence to others who needed it more.
This is the true story of the Author, Aaron Zerah’s Mother, how she survived against all odds, and now thrives, to this day, with a family in Canada.
This is the true story of the Author, Aaron Zerah’s Mother, how she survived against all odds, and now thrives, to this day, with a family in Canada.
| bronia_and_the_bowls_of_soup.pdf |
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