Common Kibitzing

I have found a couple of lists of books that I want to make sure my niece reads. The first list is from mighty girl and is all about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. This list is broken down by subject and then age range. I might have bought a few books last night for Lilly. Especially the math books because her mother is convinced that she (SIL) is no good at math and therefore will not even talk about it with Lilly or her students. Don't get me started about this...(I too was told I wasn't any good at math when I was in elementary school and I do a whole lot of accounting and statistics now. It doesn't have to stay that way if you are willing to learn.)

Interstellar Cinderella, Underwood, Deborah
Baby Loves Aerospace Engineering! (Baby Loves Science), Spiro, Ruth
Maisy's Moon Landing: A Maisy First Science Book, Cousins, Lucy
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists, Jeannine Atkins
Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story, Slade, Suzanne
Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World, Jen Cullerton Johnson
Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer, Burleigh, Robert
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Nivola, Claire A.
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, Ignotofsky, Rachel
Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine, Wallmark, Laurie
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian, Engle, Margarita
Me . . . Jane, McDonnell, Patrick
One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale, Demi
Zero, Otoshi, Kathryn
The Chicken Problem, Oxley, Jennifer
The Most Magnificent Thing, Spires, Ashley
Robot, Go Bot! (Step into Reading Comic Reader), Rau, Dana M.
Rhoda's Rock Hunt, Griffin, Molly Beth
Rosie Revere, Engineer, Beaty, Andrea

Yes I might have gotten a little carried away, although when you see the list you'll understand it could be much worse. Most of these books are too old for her yet but I can put them away for now. I just didn't want to forget. The other books I did not get yet are:
I Am Jane Goodall, Brad Meltzer
Swimming With Sharks: The Daring Discoveries of Eugenie Clark, Heather Lang
Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon, Jeannine Atkins
Rachel Carson and Her Book that Changed the World, Laurie Lawlor
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, Robert Burleigh
You Should Meet: Mae Jemison, Laurie Calkhoven
Women Who Launched The Computer Age, Laurie Calkhoven
Hidden Figures Young Readers Edition, Margot Lee Shetterly
Sally Ride: Life on a Mission, Sue Macy
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall, Anita Silvey
Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, Jeannine Atkins
The Elephant Scientist, Caitlin O'Connell, Donna M. Jackson
Temple Grandin: How The Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World, Sy Montgomery, Temple Grandin
Sea Turtle Scientist, Stephen R. Swinburne
Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World, Rachel Swaby
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, Tanya Lee Stone
Radioactive!: How Irene Curie and Lise Mietner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World, Winifred Conkling
Emi and the Rhino Scientist, Mary Kay Carson
Maria Mitchell: The Soul of an Astronomer, Beatrice Gormley
Women In Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures, Karen Bush Gibson
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas, Jim Ottaviani
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science — And The World, Rachel Swaby
I Want To Be An Astronaut, Byron Barton (although a baby book, I couldn't find it)
Ada Twist, Scientist, Andrea Beaty
I Wonder, Annaka Harris
11 Experiments That Failed, Jenny Offill
Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly, Alan Madison
Marty McGuire Digs Worms!, Kate Messner
The Complete Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, Jim Benton
The Case of the Missing Moonstone, Jordan Stratford
Chasing Secrets, Gennifer Choldenko
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
Cleonardo, The Little Inventor, Mary Grandpre
Violet the Pilot, Steve Breen
Oh, No! (Or How My Science Project Destroyed The World), Mac Barnett
Little Robot, Ben Hatke
Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage: A Mystery with Hoverbots, Bristle Bots, and Other Robots You Can Build Yourself, Bob Pflugfelder, Steve Hockensmith
Mechanica, Betsy Cornwell
Cinder: Book One of the Lunar Chronicles, Marissa Meyer
Infinity and Me, Kate Hosford
Math Curse, Jon Scieszka
The Red Blazer Girls, Michael D. Beil
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls (I'm adding this one here but I found it in another mighty girl article)

The second list is one I compiled making purchases of books for faculty teaching in the ESOL and multicultural programs. I'm sure there are a great deal more but this is what I've found so far.

A Chair for My Mother

A Grain of Rice

A Million Fish...More or Less

A Nest in Springtime: A Mandarin Chinese-English bilingual book of numbers

A Triangle for Adaora: An African Book of Shapes

Abuela's Weave

Abuelita fue al mercado

Calendars of Native Americans: Timekeeping Methods of Ancient North America

Calling the Doves/El canto de las palomas

Can you count ten toes?: Count to 10 in 10 different languages

Caribbean counting book

Count on Pablo

Count on Your Fingers African Style

Count Your Way Through the Arab World

Cuenta Con Pablo

Dream Carver

Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building

Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music

Emeka's Gift

Erandi's Braids

Family Pictures

Feast for Ten

First Day in Grapes

From Texas to California

Grandfather Counts

Grandfather Tang's Story

Handa's surprise

Handa's Surprise in Spanish and English (English and Spanish Edition)

How Many, How Many, How Many

How Much?: Visiting Markets Around the World

How the Arabs Invented Algebra: The History of the Concept of Variables

Human Footprint: Everything You Will Eat, Use, Wear, Buy, and Throw Out in Your Lifetime

If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States

If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People

If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi?

Islamic Art: Recognizing Geometric Ideas in Art

Jake's 100th Day of School

Jalapeno Bagels

Juna's Jar

Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Kente Colors

La abeja de más

La bella alformbra de Gabriela / Gabriela's Beautiful Carpet

Lakota Hoop Dancer

Landed

Las Crepes de Mama Panya

Last to Finish: A Story About the Smartest Boy in Math Class

Let's Count the Raindrops

Little You

Los 10 zapatos de Cenicienta

Los buenos vecinos

Lucky Beans

Mama Panya's pancakes

Mango, Abuela, and Me

Material World: A Global Family Portrait

Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book

My Granny Went to Market: A Round-the-world Counting Rhyme.

My Tata's Remedies / Los remedios de mi Tata

No Small Change

Nos Fuimos Todos de Safari

Numbers in a Row: An Iowa Number Book

One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference

One Hundred Is a Family

One leaf rides the wind

One Potato Two: Small Loans. Big Change

One Smiling Grandma

Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed

Our Journey

Que Monton de Tamales

Quillworker

Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates

Round Up: A Texas Number Book

Running Shoes

Show Way

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Ten Mice for Tet (Vietnam)

Ten Sly Piranhas, A Counting Story in Reverse

Ten Unusual Features of Lulu McDunn

The Keeping Quilt

The King's Chessboard

The Littlest Matryoshka

The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom

The Patchwork Quilt

The Piñata Maker / El Piñatero

The Tortoise Who Bragged: A Chinese Tale with Trigrams

The Warlord's Puzzle

Too Many Tamales

Two of Everything

Two Ways to Count to Ten

We All Went On Safari

What the Rat Told Me

What the World Eats

When It's Six O'Clock in San Francisco: A Trip Through Time Zones