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Children's Nonfiction Experiments & Projects

IsThisAnOlogy?

by (author) Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman & Ruth Lawrence

illustrated by Leon Chung

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Mar 2023
Category
Experiments & Projects, General, Environmental Science & Ecosystems, Careers
Recommended Age
9 to 12
Recommended Grade
4 to 7
Recommended Reading age
9 to 12
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550819694
    Publish Date
    Mar 2023
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781550819700
    Publish Date
    Apr 2023
    List Price
    $17.99

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Description

IsThisAnOlogy? is a journey of discovery! Andie interviews different “ologists” and learns all about different types of science.

IsThisAnOlogy? explores big jobs, big science, and the biggest questions. Learn about fossils, bird migration, beekeeping, the science behind making food delicious, and the chemistry involved in cheese making. IsThisAnOlogy? features illustrations, interviews, comics, photographs, charts, recipes, and experiments you can try at home. Science can be a fun hands-on activity!

About the authors

Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman is a chef, writer, librarian, citizen scientist, and stand-up comic. She works closely with Little Green Thumbs and Agriculture in the Classroom and is the founder of Yes, Chef, a non-profit that brings sustainability, foraging, farming, and food into elementary school classrooms. Amanda hosts a segment on CBC’s Here and Now entitled “Food and Fun” and hosted two children’s television shows on Bell Fibe in 2021. She lives in beautiful Newfoundland with her basset hound. Amanda’s cookbook and foraging guide, Salt Beef Buckets: A Love Story, was released in 2021.

Amanda Dorothy Jean Bulman's profile page

Ruth Lawrence is a nationally recognized director, writer, and actor in film and theatre. In 2020, her debut narrative film, Little Orphans, won the Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature at the Whistler Film Festival. In 2019, she directed the documentary Circus by Komatik. Her writing for theatre includes the children’s folktale adaptation of Kate Crackerberry. She is the artistic director of White Rooster Theatre. Her plays and poetry have been published in anthologies by Breakwater Books, Signature Editions, the Waterford Institute, and Playwrights Canada Press.

Ruth Lawrence's profile page

Leon Chung is an illustrator and graphic novelist with an artistic background in animation and traditional drawing and painting. His artworks are created by utilizing a variety of hand-drawn mediums including graphite, ink, copic markers, watercolour paint, and digital paint. His published works include two children’s books, illustrations for a local cookbook, Riddle Fence magazine, and editorial illustrative pieces that are regularly featured in the Newfoundland Quarterly. Leon’s work has been the recipient of multiple grants and are recognized provincially as well as nationally, including with the Canadian Historic Heritage Association and Canada Council for the Arts, and are displayed at some of the province’s most beloved national landmarks, including the Cabot Tower of Signal Hill, Cape Spear Historic Site, and various Heritage Shoppe storefronts of Newfoundland.

Leon Chung's profile page

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