Hours of Entertaining Fun!
Learn-through-play with a collection of fun STEAM activities for kids.
Each page of the STEAM Activity Book is jam-packed with hands-on activities and experiments. From space exploration to building marshmallow structures to making your own tornado, each page will help master critical thinking skills and encourage kids to tackle learning the fun way!
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If you could have any super power what would it be? Flying? Laser vision? Retractable metal claws?
For charmingly confident Clara Humble, her newly discovered super powers include: communicating with chinchillas, spilling stuff, waking up at 7:14 every morning (even without an alarm), supersonic hearing and mind control.
And what a perfect time to discover such skills!
With students from rival R. R. Reginald (including Bossy Becky) moving into Clara’s school and her favorite neighbor moving to a far away retirement home, Clara must use her powers to find the perfect solution and save the day.
And she will… right?
The first book in our new middle-grade series, Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers, by Anna Humphrey, is a fast-paced misadventure told through a clever, funny and authentic voice.
And with doodles of Clara’s humorous @Cat comic sketches throughout (all by illustrator Lisa Cinar), Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers provides a great and relatable perspective of life as a fourth-grader.
And now you can discover your very own Clara-verse super powers! How? Try the “Not-So-Super Power Generator” here.
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Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers
Have you ever asked yourself the question: what are politics? And why do we need them? Then we have a book for you!
The Art of the Possible by Edward Keenan answers everything from why we form societies and the basic types of governments to the power of public opinion, methods of rhetoric and the reasons why politicians “lie.” Filled with fun facts and case studies, this book will make you a political pro in no time! (Perfect for the upcoming Canadian election!)
Ed Keenan is an eight-time National Magazine Award finalist, who works as a City Politics columnist for The Toronto Star and hosts the weekly radio show “The Keenan Wire Radio Program” on Newstalk 1010. He currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
Check out Goodreads and enter for a chance to win a copy of The Art of the Possible! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612452-the-art-of-the-possible
Want more? Ed Keenan shares a day in the life of a political reporter and talks about why he wrote the book in this video. Link here.
Want to be involved? Come join us for The Art of the Possible book launch at Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, Ontario. Details can be found here.
The Art of the Possible
We love sports at Owlkids. We don’t discriminate — hockey, baseball, chessboxing, soccer…we love them all! yep, that’s right, we sneaked chessboxing in there.
What’s chessboxing, you wonder? We’re glad you asked! Everything you might want to know about this odd sport is in Weird Zone: Sports, a new book by OWL contributor Maria Birmingham. In fact, this backpack-sized book is full of everything you might want to know about over 50 of the strangest, funniest, just plain weirdest sports in existence!
But if you can’t wait to read the book to find out more about chessboxing, we’ll indulge you with this short video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ZwMVLMezI
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Weird Zone: Sports
Well, TD Canadian Children’s Book Week has just wrapped — our very own Lizann Flatt visited some awesome schools in Saskatchewan — but there’s still some serious celebrating of children’s books to do this month! May is when the winners of a few of Canada’s children’s choice book awards are announced. It’s an exciting time for publishers, authors, illustrators, librarians, and, of course, the young readers who vote their favourites onto the podium!
The winners of Atlantic Canada’s children’s choice book award, the Hackmatack, were revealed May 10th. Students in grades 4 – 6 had the opportunity to read 40 books in four categories over the course of this past school year. Owlkids Books had one nominated title, Off to Class by Susan Hughes, in the English Non-fiction category, but 50 Poisonous Questions by Tanya Lloyd Kyi took home the prize.
The celebration moves west this week, when the votes of Ontario children will be tallied and the winners of Forest of Reading awards will be announced. In the Blue Spruce Award category (PreK – 2) we are thrilled to have You Are Stardust and Really and Truly as contenders. And in the Red Maple Award Non-fiction category (grades 7 & 8) we can’t wait to see how The Secret Life of Money and You Just Can’t Help It! fare. OWL editor Kim will be hosting the Red Maple Award ceremony, too!
Winners of British Columbia’s Young Readers Choice Award, the Red Cedar, are also announced this month. Off to Class is nominated for that award, as well. We hope readers on both coasts have enjoyed it.
You can check out winners of Saskatchewan’s Willow Awards (announced in April) here and of Alberta’s Rocky Mountain Book Awards here.
Thanks to all the readers and voters, teachers and librarians, and event organizers across the country who make these programs possible each year!
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Off to Class
You Are Stardust
Really and Truly
The Secret Life of Money
You Just Can’t Help It!
