Julie Dillemuth – författare

A young raccoon who gets separated from her family one night and has to find her way home.One night, Lucy the raccoon follows her family out of their den, headed for the best garbage bins in town. Before she knows it, she gets separated from her family. How will she ever find her way back to her family and her cozy den? With the help of a friendly owl and his bird amp rsquo s-eye view, Lucy tunes into the world around her and navigates herself home!  Reading this book with your children will help them develop their own spatial thinking skills-how we think about and understand the world around us and use concepts of space for problem solving. Early exposure to spatial concepts can help foster this type of cognitive development in children and boost their math and science learning as they progress through school.  Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Professionals with more information about spatial concepts, as well as questions, games, and activities designed to encourage children amp rsquo s spatial thinking skills.

Follow Flora and her zany family as she takes us through her day with a series of vibrant and interactive maps.In our current GPS-ruled world, map-reading is something of a dying art. But learning to read, understand, and draw maps is a fun and active way for children to develop spatial thinking skills- how we think about and understand the world around us and use concepts of space for problem solving. Early exposure to maps concepts can help foster this type of cognitive development in children and boost their math and science learning as they progress through school.Each hand-drawn, kid-friendly map highlights key map concepts in the context of a story or puzzle. Figure out which route to school is the fastest, how to find Flora amp rsquo s buried treasure, and even how to complete a dog agility course!Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Professionals with more information about maps and spatial concepts, as well as questions, games, and activities designed to encourage children to map their own days!

2 9 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Nominee​A Bank Street College Best Book of the YearCamilla loves maps and has always wondered what it would be like to explore and discover a new path for the first time. When a snowstorm covers the path to the creek, Camilla's historic maps inspires her to make her own path-and her own map! Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers celebrating discovery and adventurous problem-solving.Includes a Note to Parents and Caregivers celebrating discovery and adventurous problem-solving.

Our favorite mapping boar is back in her fourth adventure!Fall is Camilla the Cartographer's favorite time of year. Dried leaves swirling on the breeze make the air smell like her most treasured old maps. Less daylight means more cozy time to curl up in bed with a book. And most of all, she loves the annual Fall Festival. Hazelnut bread, chestnut pudding, leaf art, pinecone patterns . . . she can't wait to celebrate all her favorite traditions, just like every year.Camilla, Parsley the porcupine, and all their forest friends work hard getting everything ready . . . only for a wind storm to destroy everything the night before the festival is supposed to start. Decorations are scattered throughout the forest and clear across the meadow! Does this mean the festival is ruined? Or can teamwork--and Camilla's mapping skills--save the day? The festival might not look exactly the way it always has . . . but maybe change can be a good thing. And maybe they can discover some new traditions along the way.