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Isabella sparks a love of learning. She is curious, she loves the outdoors, and she loves taking pictures. Isabella often shares her photos with her class. Her teacher, Miss Lucy, enjoys the photos but she also realizes that Isabella needs to stretch her capabilities. Miss Lucy challenges Isabella beyond her comfort zone. Miss Lucy suggests that Isabella should photograph something that she doesn't even know what it is. Determined and persistent, Isabella does not give up. She discovers that blending art and science is the key to learning something new and interesting. Isabella's story celebrates curiosity and prompts readers to explore the numerous follow-up activities. Busy families with children of multiple ages or busy teachers with students who have different interests and ability levels will appreciate the variety of related activities included in the book. Because each child is unique, finding what interests them is often the key to learning. Opportunities for learning include art, science, engineering, memory and recall, vocabulary building, attention to detail, listening skills, storytelling, and poetry.

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"Curious Isabella: Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science by Jeanne Holmberg is an educational children's book that makes learning easy for children. Ten-year-old Isabella loves to take pictures of everything, like her mom, her brother, flowers in the garden, her dog Nibbles, and her neighbor's cat Loki. While sharing her photos in class, her teacher, Miss Lucy, encourages her to add something new and different to her collection. Thinking about her teacher's challenge, she takes a picture of the blotches in a tree. Curious about the blotches, she tries to find out what they are and learns that they are lichens. She earns a ribbon from Miss Lucy as a photographer and scientist by sharing her photos in school and explaining about lichens. The book's second part is about educational activities that children should find enjoyable and exciting. Jeanne Holmberg's Curious Isabella: Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science is a beautifully laid out and cheerful book. It reminds readers that learning about new things is fun. Curious Isabella is a brilliant reading choice for your child's first day of school or for a parent trying to get their child ready to start a new school year. The book's first part should catch your child's attention because Isabella is an interesting and relatable character. The words and visual activities that follow are equally motivating. Children can increase their vocabulary by having fun with the activities. For parents with children of any reading level, this book should inspire curiosity and a love of learning in children. Highly recommended! Readers' Favorite, Maria Victoria Beltran ""Curious Isabella: Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science"" by Jeanne Holmberg is engaging, relatable, and a perfect mix of art and science. Children of any age will be inspired to get outside, explore nature, and learn new things, even if it might be challenging at first. The activities that follow have engaging ideas to further your child's thinking, incorporating both the art and the science world, allowing children to experience how the two connect. This book will have both adults and young learners wanting to get out and explore something new! Jodi Goncalves, District Elementary Science ILS, Springfield Public Schools  "

Curious Isabella: Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science by Jeanne Holmberg is an educational children's book that makes learning easy for children. Ten-year-old Isabella loves to take pictures of everything, like her mom, her brother, flowers in the garden, her dog Nibbles, and her neighbor's cat Loki. While sharing her photos in class, her teacher, Miss Lucy, encourages her to add something new and different to her collection. Thinking about her teacher's challenge, she takes a picture of the blotches in a tree. Curious about the blotches, she tries to find out what they are and learns that they are lichens. She earns a ribbon from Miss Lucy as a photographer and scientist by sharing her photos in school and explaining about lichens. The book's second part is about educational activities that children should find enjoyable and exciting. Jeanne Holmberg's Curious Isabella: Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science is a beautifully laid out and cheerful book. It reminds readers that learning about new things is fun. Curious Isabella is a brilliant reading choice for your child's first day of school or for a parent trying to get their child ready to start a new school year. The book's first part should catch your child's attention because Isabella is an interesting and relatable character. The words and visual activities that follow are equally motivating. Children can increase their vocabulary by having fun with the activities. For parents with children of any reading level, this book should inspire curiosity and a love of learning in children. Highly recommended! Readers' Favorite, Maria Victoria Beltran ""Curious Isabella: Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science"" by Jeanne Holmberg is engaging, relatable, and a perfect mix of art and science. Children of any age will be inspired to get outside, explore nature, and learn new things, even if it might be challenging at first. The activities that follow have engaging ideas to further your child's thinking, incorporating both the art and the science world, allowing children to experience how the two connect. This book will have both adults and young learners wanting to get out and explore something new! Jodi Goncalves, District Elementary Science ILS, Springfield Public Schools  

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Jeanne Holmberg writes books that put a fun spin on learning for ages 4-16. Jeanne's books are ideal for busy families and busy teachers because they promote rich discussion and active learning for a wide variety of interests and ability levels. Jeanne was inspired to write ""Curious Isabella, Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science"" because learning opportunities should be so much more than just single subject worksheets. Offering multiple outlets to discuss and explore inspires young students to enjoy learning. Because each child is unique, finding what interests them most is often the key to learning. Jeanne received five-star reviews for both ""Curious Isabella, Embracing A Challenge With Art And Science"" and for ""Crush Math Anxiety With Drones, Succeed In Math By Nurturing A Growth Mindset Through Drone Stories"". Jeanne is currently writing ""Drawing The Alphabet"". Before embarking on her writing adventures, Jeanne enjoyed life and learning as an educational leader, teacher, actuarial analyst, research chemist and volunteer at a local children's museum. When she is not writing, Jeanne is inspired by spending time outdoors with her Scottish Terrier named Rocky, reading historical fiction, and surrounding herself with family and friends. Jeanne lives by the inspirational quote ""Live well, laugh often, love much"" by Bessie Anderson Stanley. If she could add one more thought to Bessie Anderson Stanley's inspirational quote it would be: ""Live well, laugh often, love much"" and learn all along the way. Jeanne welcomes reader input. jeanneholmberg@outlook.com. You can also follow Jeanne and Rocky at: jeanneholmberg.com

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