shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com November 20, 2018 • Page 11 The Bookworm ... For Young Readers ‘Kid Scientists’ Will Keep Your Child Intrigued “Kid Scientists: True Tales of Childhood from Science Superstars” by David Stabler, illustrations by Anoosha Syed; © 2018, Quirk Books. 207 pages ——— BY TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER Your room is a great big mess. At least that’s what your mother says but you know your room is a work in progress. You have an ongoing experiment here, an almost-finished one there, and look at what’s in the terrarium! Your room is your laboratory, Young Scientist, so read “Kid Scientists” by David Stabler, illustrations by Anoosha Syed, and see what your heroes were like when they were younger. Gravity, black holes, humane animal control, computers, electricity, advanced math, can you imagine what life would be like if you didn’t know about those things? No worries because you do know, thanks to scientists. But check this out: once upon a time, those same scientists “were just ordinary kids” like you. Katherine Johnson, for instance, happened to like numbers. When she was small, she counted things obsessively. As a toddler, she followed her brother to classes and she was so smart that she started high school at age ten! Later, when a teacher at a Black college said she’d “make a fine mathematician… that was all she needed to hear.” Johnson ultimately became one of a small handful of black women to help NASA put an astronaut on the moon. Neil deGrasse Tyson was so determined to become an astrophysicist that he started a dog-walking business to earn money for a telescope. On a walk through a nearby forest, Rachael Carson understood the effects of pollution on the environment; that love of nature led her to become a published “professional nature writer at the age of fifteen.” Jane Goodall loved animals so much that she tried to keep earthworms in her bed (her mother explained why that wasn’t the greatest idea ever). George Washington Carver talked to plants when he was a boy; Marie Curie went to school under Russian control; Nikola Tesla inherited his love of invention from his mother; Salim Ali reportedly tried to pottytrain a sparrow; and Temple Grandin discovered that she understood animals’ anxieties because she was a lot like them. It’s been said that a child can’t be what a child can’t see. Fortunately for your budding astrophysicist, inventor, doctor, environmentalist, or mathematician, “Kid Scientists” will open her eyes with mini-bios of interesting and accomplished people. But wouldn’t it be boring if that’s all your child got? It would, which is why there’s more to this book: here, he’ll learn that his heroes were once kids who did goofy, funny, slightly naughty things in addition to normal kid activities. Author David Stabler also lends subtlety to those tales by quietly indicating that if famous scientists could have off-beat interests, then maybe no thread of curiosity is unworthy of exploration. Those are golden words for a child who marches to a heartbeat, a moonbeam, a pulsed laser, or the beat of a bird’s wings. The perfect reader for “Kid Scientists” is the 8- to 12-year-old who loves biographical sketches or longs to explore any branch of science. It’s a book made for inquisitive minds, and if your kid’s like that, he or she will have room for it. New At The Library Here’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library this week: ADULT BOOKS • Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth, nonfiction • Off the Rails by Susan Burrowes, nonfiction • The Witch Elm by Tana French, nonfiction • Life’s Final Season by Richard Holm, nonfiction • Dream by Carly Phillips, fiction JUNIOR BOOKS • Dos Ninos Y Un Angel En Nueva York by E.L. Konigsburg, fiction ADULT DVD’S • The 12th Man • Arizona • Blackkklansman • Christopher Robin • Eighth Grade • Gotti • Hotel Artemis • Incredibles 2 • A Kid Like Jake • Leave No Trace • Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again • Reprisal • The Seagull • Skyscraper • The Silence of the Lambs • Vikings: Season 5, Volume 1 JUNIOR DVD’S • Paw Patrol: Mighty Pups • Ready Jet Go! Jet’s First Halloween • Samantha: An American Girl Holiday AUDIO BOOKS • The Reckoning by John Grisham, fiction ——— Did you know that you can reserve an item from home? Staff will then notify you as soon as the item is available! Check out the for great specials at your local restaurants! In Print and Online! Celebrate Nebraska’s 2018 Book Award Winners At Dec. 1 Celebration LINCOLN, Neb. — Celebrate Nebraska’s 2018 Book Award winners with author readings and an awards presentation ceremony at the Nebraska Center for the Book’s Celebration of Nebraska Books on Dec. 1 at the History Nebraska’s Nebraska History Museum, 131 Centennial Mall North, in downtown Lincoln. Winners of the 2018 Nebraska Book Awards will be honored and the celebration will include readings by some of the winning authors, designers and illustrators of books with a Nebraska connection published in 2017. The winners are: • Children’s Picture Book: “Simpson’s Sheep Just Want to Sleep” by Bruce Arant. Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc. • Chapter Book: “George and the Stolen Sunny Spot” by Kristin Bauer Ganoung. Publisher: Prairieland Press • Young Adult: “The November Girl” by Lydia Kang. Publisher: Entangled Teen • Cover/Design/Illustration: “Nebraska’s First College: Shaping the Future Since 1867” by Dan Sullivan. Design by Christine Zueck-Watkins. Publisher: Peru State College Foundation • Fiction: “World, Chase Me Down: A Novel” by Andrew Hilleman. Publisher: Penguin Books • Fiction Honor: “Kings of Broken Things” by Theodore Wheeler. Publisher: Little A • Fiction Short Story Honor: “One With Bird: And Other Stories” by Douglas K. German. Publisher: iUniverse • Nonfiction Biography: “The Weight of the Weather: Regarding the Poetry of Ted Kooser,” edited by Mark Sanders. Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University Press • Nonfiction Culture: “The Sex Effect: Baring Our Complicated Relationship with Sex” by Ross Benes. Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. • Nonfiction History: “Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History” by Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Nonfiction Immigration Story: “Short Hair Detention: Memoir of a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Surviving the Cambodian Genocide” by Channy Chhi Laux. Publisher: Archway Publishing • Nonfiction Memoir: “What is Gone” by Amy Knox Brown. Publisher: Texas Tech University Press • Nonfiction Reference: “Atlas of Nebraska” by J. Clark Archer, Richard Edwards, Leslie M. Howard, Fred M. Shelley, Donald A. Wilhite, and David J. Wishart. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Nonfiction Sesquicentennial: “150@150: Nebraska’s Landmark Buildings at the State’s Sesquicentennial” by Jeff Barnes. Publisher: The Donning Company Publishers • Poetry: “Rock Tree Bird” by Twyla M. Hansen. Publisher: The Backwaters Press • Poetry Honor: “Blind Girl Grunt: The Selected Blues Lyrics and Other Poems” by Constance Merritt. Publisher: Headmistress Press • Poetry Anthology: “Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology 1867-2017” edited by Daniel Simon. Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University Press The Celebration of Nebraska Books, free and open to the public, will also honor winners of the 2018 Jane Geske and Mildred Bennett awards. The Mildred Bennett Award recognizes We wish y you a Happ ! hanksgiving T individuals choice will conclude the festivities. who have The Celebration of Nebraska Books is sponmade a signifisored by Nebraska Center for the Book and cant contribuNebraska Library Commission, with support tion to fosterfrom History Nebraska’s Nebraska History Muing the literary seum. Humanities Nebraska provides support tradition in for One Book One Nebraska. The Nebraska Nebraska, Center for the Book is housed at the Nebraska reminding us Library Commission and brings together the of the literary state’s readers, writers, booksellers, librarians, and intellectual publishers, printers, educators, and scholars heritage that to build the community of the book, supportenriches our ing programs to celebrate and stimulate public lives and molds interest in books, reading, and the written our world. word. The Nebraska Center for the Book is The Jane supported by the national Center for the Book Geske Award in the Library of Congress and the Nebraska is presented Library Commission. to a Nebraska organization for exceptional As the state library agency, the Nebraska contribution to literacy, books, reading, librarLibrary Commission is an advocate for the ies, or literature in Nebraska. It commemorates library and information needs of all NebrasGeske’s passion for books and was established kans. The mission of the Library Commission is in recognition of her contributions to the wellstatewide promotion, development, and coordibeing of the libraries of Nebraska. nation of library and information services, The 2018 One Book One Nebraska selec“bringing together people and information.” tion, “Nebraska Presence: An Anthology of Poetry” (The Backwaters Press) edited by Greg Kosmicki and Mary K. Stillwell will be featured in a keynote presentation at 2:45 p.m. The Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. — just ble prior to the 2:30-6:30 p.m. celAvaila w ebration. An awards reception No honoring the winning authors, book signings, and introduction of the 2019 One Book One Nebraska/All Iowa Reads book Breast Cancer Care in Your Community Tony and Donna Ellis 605-665-3720 • Yankton, SD Breast Surgeon Julie Reiland, MD, FACS, will see patients in Yankton. 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