Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature

10 best books like Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature (Sarah C. Campbell): Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, The Day You Begin, Carmela Full of Wishes, Interrupting Chicken, Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, Time Is a River, Good-Night, Owl!, Turtle Splash!: Countdown at the Pond, The Listening Walk

Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature

Author

Joyce Sidman

Gorgeous and eye catching illustrations.

Fascinating scientific information about how spirals are so prevalent in nature. This goes for individual animals (and animal parts and postures), individual plants, ocean waves, clouds, and entire galaxies.

I love how this can be read...

The Day You Begin

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0399246533

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson and two-time Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner Rafael Lopez have teamed up to create a poignant, yet heartening book about finding courage to connect, even when you feel scared and alone.

There will be times when you walk into a room
and...

Carmela Full of Wishes

Author

Matt de la Pena

When Carmela wakes up on her birthday, her wish has already come true--she's finally old enough to join her big brother as he does the family errands. Together, they travel through their neighborhood, past the crowded bus stop, the fenced-off repair shop, and the panaderia, until they arrive at the...

Interrupting Chicken

Author	David Ezra Stein
ISBN	0763641685

Awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor!

A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken’s habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head.

It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story —and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt....

Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise

Author	David Ezra Stein
ISBN	0763688428

Surprise! The little red chicken is back -- and as endearingly silly as ever -- in David Ezra Stein's follow-up to the Caldecott Honor-winning Interrupting Chicken.

It's homework time for the little red chicken, who has just learned about something every good story should have: an elephant...

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

Author

Timothy Egan

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying...

Time Is a River

Author	Mary Alice Monroe
ISBN	1416544364

With a strong, warm voice that brings the South to life, "New York Times" bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe writes richly textured stories that intimately portray the complex and emotional relationships we share with families, friends, and the natural world. "Every book that Mary Alice Monroe...

Good-Night, Owl!

Author	Pat Hutchins
ISBN	0689713711

Owl can’t get to sleep in Pat Hutchins’s beloved Good-Night, Owl!

How is Owl supposed to sleep the day away with the bees buzzing, the woodpecker pecking, the doves cooing, and the squirrels crunching? But when night falls and everything is finally quiet, suddenly there’s a new sound—and...

Turtle Splash!: Countdown at the Pond

Author	Cathryn Falwell
ISBN	0060294620

Ten painted turtles on a log in the pond are disturbed by various forest creatures and one by one they return to the pond. Lovely blues and aqua colores in these illustrations. Added information includes details about each of the ten pond and forest creatures who disturb the turtles. The one very short...

The Listening Walk

Author	Paul Showers
ISBN	0064433226

“A fine resource for studying the senses.”—Booklist

Put on your socks and shoes—and don't forget your ears! We're going on a listening walk. Shhhhh. Do not talk. Do not hurry. Get ready to fill your ears with a world of wonderful and surprising sounds.

A little girl and...

Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

Author	Edward O. Wilson
ISBN	1631495542

Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior...