Archimedes Notebook

    When You See Us: The Mysterious World of Aquatic Insects  by Katherine Hocker; illus. by Svabhu Kohli  32 pages; ages 3-7 Candlewick, 20...

The Vanishing Sea: The Tale of How the Aral Sea Became the Aral Desert  by Dinara Mirtalipova  40 pages; ages 5-8 Chronicle Books, 2026    t...

  Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World about Water Pollution  by Julie Winterbottom; illus. by Susan Reagan  48 pages...

The Secret Stream   by Kimberly Ridley; illus. by Megan Elizabeth Baratta  40 pages; ages 6-8 Tilbury House Publishers, 2022 theme: streams...

At the Pond      by David Elliott; illus. by Amy Schimler-Safford  40 pages; ages 3-7 Candlewick, 2022 theme: nature, water, animals The red...

 Earth Day may have been last week, but this book reminds us that Every Day is Earth Day – and that we can, by taking small actions, make th...

Happy Earth Week! The first Earth Day in 1970 focused on air and water pollution. Back then, factories spewed so much oil into water that ri...

  When the World Runs Dry: Earth's Water in Crisis  by Nancy F. Castaldo  208 pages; ages 10 & up Algonquin Young Readers, 2022    “...

  Yesterday morning I was out in the garden watching bees, and I happened to notice water droplets clinging to the hairy lupine leaves. When...

It's been rainy this past month (snowy, too) - but still, on those not-too-wet days I've loved heading outdoors to see what is happe...

Strider babies at Baxter State Park (photo by Martha Mitchell) About a month ago my friend and naturalist, Martha Mitchell, was explori...

Things That Float and Things That Don't by David Adler; illus. by Anna Raff 32 pages; ages 5 - 9 Holiday House, 2013 Last week we...

Water is strong. If you want to know just how strong, fill a small juice glass up to the brim. Now grab a pile of pennies - a hundred might...

This is the season of snow melting, rain and slush, freeze-thaw, cold nights and sap-running days. It is the time when things start to mov...

This week I’ve been focusing on Melissa Stewart’s book, A Place for Fish . Now it’s time to take some action – and just in time, too, becau...