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  • Little Brown Nut (Start Small, Think Big #2)

Little Brown Nut
(Start Small, Think Big #2)

Author
Illustrator
Dawn Cooper
Publication Date
March 26, 2024
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  2nd − 3rd
Language
English
Format
Picture Book
Little Brown Nut (Start Small, Think Big #2)

Description

Start Small, Think Big sets readers on a journey of discovery, beginning with small miracles of life and connecting them to the big picture of our natural world. Each book features a large fold-out illustration on the final pages.

Little Brown Nut starts small, with a large fruit falling from the tallest tree in the Amazon rainforest. Inside is a little brown Brazil nut, surrounded by 20 others. It sits and waits for an agouti, a rodent with teeth so strong that it can free the nutfrom its hard casing. The story of the Brazil nut tree and the agouti is told clearly and carefully, with facts about germination, photosynthesis, seed dispersal. The narrative progresses in away that builds understanding and the gorgeous illustrations bring the story and the science to life.

Thinking big, the book shows why the rainforest is important to local people and the wider world. A big fold-out has a worldmap, an at-a-glance lifecycle, and a Rainforest I-Spy of the animals to take readers back into the book.

This book features a die cut hole in the cover and large fold-out poster at the back of the book.

Publication date
March 26, 2024
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781636551050
Lexile Measure
620
Publisher
Red Comet Press
Series
Start Small, Think Big
BISAC categories
JNF037040 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Trees & Forests
Library of Congress categories
Rain forests
Amazon River Region
Rain forest ecology
Brazil nut
Paca

Kirkus

 Nutritious and digestible, just like its narrator. (Informational picture book. 6-8)

ALA/Booklist

The real wow-factor appears in each book’s final spread, which folds out into a four-page display that includes a map, an illustrated recap of the plant or animal life cycle, an “I-Spy” feature that sends kids back through the book, and a “Think Big!” box of big-picture facts.

Mary Auld







Mary Auld is an award-winning writer of children's information books, most notably
How To Build an Orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra. Mary Auld is a pen
name for Rachel Cooke, former Editorial Director at Hachette and an honorary fellow
of the English Association in recognition of her work in children's non-fiction.


Dawn Cooper is a talented British illustrator with a passion for nature. Her recent books
include Insect Emporium and Ocean Emporium (Egmont) and Up Close (Wren & Rook).
She lives in Bristol, England.




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