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STEM Week continues with Shelby Wilde, author of “Scavenger Scout: Rock Hound”
Hey RWYK Family!!
If you have a young rock hound in your life, you’ll love today’s episode on the Reading with Your Kids podcast! Kids will love t hunting for the rocks in Shelby Wilde’s new picture book Scavenger Scout: Rock Hound!
We’re thrilled to have Shelby joining us talk about her STEM-inspired story about a resourceful girl rock hound who tells fantastic tales about how she hunted each of her real-life rocks.
Scavenger Scout is one of the few STEM-inspired picture books that feature a female main character. Scout uses engineering and science in order to overcome challenges throughout the book.
If you love rocks & minerals then there are lots that you and your family can do. Tune in and find out some of the best ideas and activities that might interest your family!
About Shelby Wilde
Author Shelby Wilde believes that the best way you can spend your time is reading to kids or teaching them to read for themselves. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two curious kids. When she’s not writing, she is adding to her rock collection. Her current favorite mineral is fluorite.You can follow Shelby Wilde here;
More about Scavenger Scout: Rock Hound: Seek-and-Find Book for Kids Who Love Rocks
Scavenger Scout is not an ordinary seven-year-old. She’s a rock hound! Hunting for rocks is her passion and she loves to show and tell. The stories she tells are more fantasy than reality, but the rocks she hunts are real. Follow along as she haggles with a host of characters to add rocks to her collection. Follow Scout as she hunts for azurite, alexandrite, and fluorite and finds the rock on every page!
The story of Scavenger Scout will appeal to kids who love to hunt and who love adventure, so why not give them the opportunity to help Scout find the rock on every page? In each vignette, Scout hunts for a different rock and kids get to hunt with her! The difficulty level varies with each page so even kids as young as 2 or 3 will be able to find the rocks.
“Scavenger Scout: Rock Hound” is the perfect holiday gift or birthday gift, but would also be a great gift for when your favorite Scout moves up from Daisies to Brownies or Bobcat to Tiger Cub or Scout to Tenderfoot.
This book is the first book in a series and is crafted for ages 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, preschool and kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade.
Scavenger Scout: Rock Hound is now available on Amazon!
In this episode, You’ll hear
- What compelled Shelby to write Scavenger Scout: Rock Hound?
- What sparked her interest in rockhounding?
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Some of the online & offline resources for parents to identify different kinds of rocks and to find more information on rocks and minerals
- What kind of messages does Shelby hope that readers will take from her book?
- What’s next? What projects is Shelby currently working on?
A big thank you to Shelby Wilde for sharing her wonderful book with us and for joining us on the Reading with your kids podcast!
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