Flicker Finds Her Glow

Flicker Finds Her Glow

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0807525103

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A young firefly is on a mission to discover her special gift. Flicker is a young firefly looking for her glow on her birthday. Flicker's friends help her search and she asks other bugs in The Grand Bug Hotel. Will she find the glow?


Flicker Is Lost and Found

Flicker Is Lost and Found

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0807525162

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Flicker learns it's OK to ask for help, no matter how old you are. Flicker is a big girl now, and is going to visit Grampa and Nana Glowworm all by herself. Papa Jitterbug gives her a map and Mama Junebug tells Flicker she and the twins, Zip and Flare, will join her later. Flicker is sure she doesn't doesn't need a map to find her way through the many zig-zaggy hallways of The Grand Bug Hotel. Does she?


Flicker and the Special Guests

Flicker and the Special Guests

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2023-06-22

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 080752526X

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Flicker and her friends roll out the red carpet for some special visitors. Famous singers Itsy and Bitsy Longlegs are coming to stay at The Grand Bug Hotel! Flicker and her friends try to get their room just right by opening the curtains, turning on the lights, and sweeping up the cobwebs. But when the special guests arrive, Flicker finds out that everyone has a different idea of what makes a space feel like home.


Flicker Plays Hide-and-Surprise

Flicker Plays Hide-and-Surprise

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0807525227

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Flicker shows it's important to look out for the ones you care about. Flicker's twin younger brother and sister, Zip and Flare, want to play with Flicker and her friends. Flicker explains how to play hide-and-seek, but the little ones just can’t seem to get it right. Flicker is a good big sister and makes up a new name for the game that they want to play, and everyone enjoys the new game even more.


Spidernaut

Spidernaut

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0807504408

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Told in the first person as if written by Arabella herself, she describes how she was the first spider to spin a web in space in 1973, and even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Reading Arabella's diary and the story, we learn how spiders spin webs and why this experiment, suggested by a high school student, was important.


Half a Giraffe?

Half a Giraffe?

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2018-09-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807531618

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A rollicking rhyming text shows how a baby giraffe learns, with a little help from her friends, to be true to herself. All giraffes, even baby Gisele, know that the juiciest leaves are on the tops of the trees. But how does she reach them? No matter how she stretches or twists, those tasty leaves are just too high. A strong story with a light touch, and colorful art with extra touches of humor, appeals to both children and adults.


Listening to the Stars

Listening to the Stars

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807545643

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STARRED REVIEW! "An inspiring picture book biography of an inquisitive girl who became a world-renowned scientist, told in accessible language."—School Library Journal starred review STARRED REVIEW! "As gorgeous as it is informative."—Kirkus Reviews starred review A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that contributed to her discovery of pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today, recognized for her contribution.


HeroRat!

HeroRat!

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0807503851

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2023 Finalist AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books STARRED REVIEW! "A fun series that kids will enjoy."—Booklist starred review Meet a rodent with a life-saving sense of smell. Magawa is an African giant pouched rat with a special skill: sniffing out buried land mines. Follow this HeroRat from training at a university in Tanzania, to working in the field in Cambodia, to winning a gold medal for her efforts to make land safe for humans and animals once again.


Flicker Flash

Flicker Flash

Author: Joan Bransfield Graham

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780395905012

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A collection of shape poems celebrating light in its various forms, from candles and lamps to lightning and fireflies.