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The students were squirming but none made a sound, as the spelling bee entered its championship round. It’s right before recess, and the annual school spelling bee is down to just three spellers: Cornelius the Genius, Smart Ruby, and The Slugger, who never strikes out. Round after round, the words whizz at them, but with one minute left until recess, there’s still no winner. Who will triumph? It all comes down to one final word, and a curveball that no one sees coming! Deborah Lee Rose’s clever rhyming text packs a laugh-out-loud wallop with words that young readers will enjoy spelling and reading aloud again and again. Fun and whimsical illustrations by Carey F. Armstrong-Ellis provide the perfect balance of humor and suspense as readers find out whether The Slugger will hit a grand slam or finally strike out.
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Deborah's newest children's STEM book is ASTRONAUTS ZOOM! Illustrated with dynamic, you-are-there NASA photos, and including lots of STEAM ideas for home and school learning, the book comes out in 2021 in celebration of 20 years of astronauts working and living on the International Space Station. Her book SCIENTISTS GET DRESSED won the national DeBary Award and captures how scientists suit up, gown up, gear up and even dress up in costume to their their amazing work. BEAUTY AND THE BEAK: HOW SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND A 3D-PRINTED BEAK RESCUED A BALD EAGLE won the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize Prize for Excellence in Science Books, the Bank Street College Cook Prize for Best STEM Picture Book, and the California Reading Association Eureka! Gold Award for Nonfiction. The book was named to the CALIFORNIA READS teacher recommended list, and includes special content about Bald Eagle conservation from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Deborah coauthored the book with renowned raptor biologist Jane Veltkamp, who led Beauty's prosthetic beak engineering team and cares for Beauty. Beauty's story was reported worldwide and featured on Nat Geo WILD TV's Unlikely Animal Friends. Free educational guides can be downloaded from www.deborahleerose.com. Deborah speaks to schools, conferences, libraries and book events nationwide. Deborah's hilarious school classics The Twelve Days of Kindergarten and The Twelve Days of Winter are now out in paperback. "The Twelve Days of Kindergarten was inspired by my son's first day of kindergarten. When he came home from school, he couldn't stop telling me all the wondrous things his new teacher had given him. Those classroom gifts--and many others that followed--inspired me to write The Twelve Days of Kindergarten, The Twelve Days of Winter and The Twelve Days of Springtime." The Twelve Days of Kindergarten and The Twelve Days of Winter have both won the NAPPA Gold Award. Deborah's ocean alphabet book, Into the A,B,Sea, was named to the New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing and has sold a quarter million copies. Her gentle ocean life cycle book, Ocean Babies, is beloved by families with young children. An internationally published, award-winning children's author, Deborah weaves themes of nature, family and school in her books. The Spelling Bee Before Recess, captures the nailbiting excitement of a school spelling bee that goes into overtime. In this humorous picture book, set to the rhythm of The Night Before Christmas, two finalists enter the spelling bee's championship round. The spelling words fly fast and thick, until the principal throws in a tiebreaker where the spellers must spell AND tell what the word means--just like in the national spelling bee. Her lullaby book, Someone's Sleepy, gently celebrates a young child's nightly ritual, from bathtime to hearing a bedtime story to snuggling with favorite stuffed animals to sweet dreams. The book is also
