Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super

By (author) Heather Camlot
Illustrated by Victor Wong
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments

Take a tour of the science of superpowers and see how science fiction is becoming science fact

If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Fly like Shazam? Turn invisible like Violet Parr? Or maybe ...

Boobies

By (author) Nancy Vo
Illustrated by Nancy Vo
Categories: Early years: the body and the senses

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award, Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books
Finalist, CCBC Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award
Nominee, Forest of Reading Silver Birch Express Award

A cheeky ...

Gross and Disgusting Things about the Human Body

By (author) Joanna Emery
Illustrated by Roger Garcia
Categories: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science: The human body

Icky, sticky, slimy, and smelly—the human body is amazing, but it’s pretty nasty sometimes, too! Find the real answers to your questions about the gross and disgusting things in, on, and coming out ...

I Found a Dead Bird

By (author) Jan Thornhill
Categories: Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and bereavement

I found a dead bird. It made me sad…but I also had a lot of questions, like why did it have to die? How did it die? What would happen to it now that it was dead? This is Jan Thornhill’s jumping-off ...