This fictional children’s book is STEM-focused and relevant for preschool through elementary school. From “gnomes planting bean sprouts” to “floating down a marshmallow river of cumulus clouds,” imaginative and inquisitive Lilli finds a unique friend while exploring her garden. The banana-beaked avocado is all too willing to participate in Lilli’s project to help her best friend fly. Lilli and Avocado begin their adventures with research at the library and create a grand finale that demonstrates teamwork as the solution.
With colorful pages full of nature, this book is emersed with vocabulary, brainstorming, and problem-solving skills children won’t even realize their learning. Readers experience the difference between the science terms lift and momentum, giggle at the homemade contraptions Lilli constructs, and can relate to witty puns like a “mom-soon.”
Mikayla, the author, also serves as the illustrator for this book and gained her inspiration (and a little artistic help) from her 5 young daughters! You can purchase your copy of How to Make an Avocado Fly now by going to https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-to-make-an-avocado-fly-naomi-white/18665088?ean=9798835683734 or visit www.littlebusbooks.com for Little Bus Books storefront hours and mobile bookshop event locations.
For a signed copy, you can meet the author on December 10 as the featured local creative at the “Outside the Binding” collaborative event between Little Bus Books and The Kitty Cat Lounge on December 10 from 1:30 – 3:30pm, in which Mikayla will lead the audience in an interactive activity at 2pm.
Reviewed by Lynsey Pippen, Co-Founder / CCO of Little Bus Books
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