About this item
This entertaining and humorous chapter book will feature animals who can perform amazing acts like riding motocross, foretelling the weather, and playing a guitar. These stories will enchant readers and empower them to devour the more text-heavy "grown up" style of the book, while still keeping the story easily digestible for a hesitant reader.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
About the Author
Aline Alexander Newman, known for her dozens of "animal anecdote" articles written for National Geographic Kids magazine, is a former teacher with a Master of Science degree in education. Still a collector of true animal anecdotes, she now turns them into award-winning, non-fiction books for kids. "Animal Superstars," a NGKids chapter book, was named to Amazon's 2013 list of Best Books of the Year. Her Young Adult book, "How to Speak Dog," won the Animal Behavior Society's Outstanding Book Award for 2014. Some of her titles even include characters - like a loon tangled in fishing line, a rascally rabbit, or an abandoned dog - drawn from Aline's own life. Aline is a wife, mother, grandmother, and animal lover. She and her husband, Neil, and their dog, Moose, divide their time between an old farmhouse in northern New York and a seasonal camp in the Adirondack Mountains. An engaging speaker, Aline uses her knowledge, humor, and rapport with kids to excite them about reading and writing. To find out more, please visit her website at www.alinealexandernewman.com or friend her on Facebook using her byline: Aline Alexander Newman. Besides making school visits, she presents at libraries, conferences, and most anywhere she finds an audience.
