Women In Science | Board Book Review

Women in Science went from being a book Baby Guy showed little interest in, to one of his favorites.  I think part of the lack of interest when he was littler was that the images are fairly busy.  But now as a 2 year old, he names more items on a page each time we read through it, and he always wants to find Mae Jemison.  He now thinks all astronauts in pictures are Mae Jemison.  

Synopsis

The colorful, STEM focused book highlights the contributions of women throughout different fields, locations, and times.  The simpler text is a good option for younger readers, compared to the original edition.

Title: Women in Science

Author: Rachel Ignotofsky

Illustrator: Rachel Ignotofsky

Categories: Girls & Women, Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology, Biography & Autobiography - Women

Published on: June 22, 2021

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

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Likes

• Variety of images for identification practice
• Simplified version of a book for older readers
• Texture on cover
• Variety of ways to read the book to adjust according to attention span of child (Name only, Name and short phrase on the bottom of the page, or reading all the words on the page)
• Easy to turn pages for little fingers.

Dislikes

• The art style of filling the page with dots or images makes it difficult for the youngest of readers to focus eyes.

Baby Guy Approval 

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On a scale of 0 to 5 Baby Guy claps, this would have to be 4 Baby Guy Claps!  He loves his "Mae Jemison book," as he calls it.  He grabs it and wants to find her.  He's interested in all vehiclles, and was able to identify that she's an astronaut and has a "space ship" on the page with her.  It's a good thing Mae Jemison is towards the end of the book, because he spends the whole time listening and looking for her, and once we get to Mae, he doesn't want to go any further.  He identifies more images on each page on every read, but he's just looking for her.

His love for this paid off so well that he was able to transfer his learning to another situation.  At the school where I teach, there's a painting of Dr. Mae Jemison in the stairwell.  He identified who she was before I'd ever read what the wall had said.  When I run to school with him, he always wants to go see her before we go.  

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