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Artificial Intelligence: Food for Thought

February 22, 2024February 20, 2024 by Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom

Following up on Gail Nordstrom and Heidi Hammond’s Caldecott Lines of Connection article, “Food for Thought,” Gail decided to give artificial intelligence a challenge to write an article on the same topic. Here’s how it went down.

Food for Thought

January 14, 2024 by Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom

Sean Sherman, “In an epiphany, I tasted how food weaves people together, connects families through generations, is a life force of identity and social structure.” These formidable themes are central to recent Caldecott Award books.

Connecting with Nature

July 20, 2023April 26, 2023 by Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom

While experiences in the natural world are beneficial to both children and adults, they are especially crucial for young people. This selection of Caldecott Honor books invites readers to explore and appreciate the natural world.

Geography, Part 1

April 8, 2021March 24, 2021 by Heidi Hammond and Gail Nordstrom

Many picture books have anonymous settings, but some include authentic landmarks identifying locations that can be pinpointed on a map. Traveling from west coast to east coast, several Caldecott Award books feature settings in the United States, and we can become armchair travelers through the illustrations.

Pie and Gratitude

March 8, 2021November 6, 2018 by Martin and Root

November is a month of gratitude — and, for us, a month to celebrate Pie. We all have a favorite. Many of us have childhood memories of good times and pie. We all wait for the days when we can eat pie for breakfast. So we two thought this would be the perfect month to look at picture books about pie.… more

Books about Trees

December 16, 2015December 9, 2015 by Vicki Palmquist

With hats off to our friends at the tree-festooned Iowa Arboretum, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chicago Botanic Gardens, and Omaha’s Lauritzen Gardens, this list is dedicated to arborists everywhere, professional and amateur … you take care of an essential part of our ecosystem. Thank you. Here’s a list of books for younger and older children, fiction and nonfiction.

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Artificial Intelligence: Food for Thought

Food for Thought

Connecting with Nature

Geography, Part 1

Books about Trees

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