Books with author Kate Scarborough

Children (and adults, too) have become aware of the ecological importance of bees. Wasps are ecologically important, too. They pollinate plants and provide pest control by eating insects and feeding them to their young. Paper wasps construct open-celled paper nests. A mated female wasp -- the queen -- starts the nest by chewing wood fibers into a pulp to build paper layers. As soon as she has built enough of the nest, she lays some eggs which grow into young female wasps. They lay more eggs, mostly males, and these become workers whose job is to build the nest for the growing colony. It can end up being quite large. Come winter, the old queen and the workers die and the young females hibernate. In spring, they will be new queens that will build their own nest for a new wasp colony. This elegantly illustrated book explains stage by stage in easy text how a wasp nest is built. It follows by days and weeks and shows how the queen's industrious workers create a sturdy, weatherproof home. Readers see the inside of the growing nest where the eggs turn into larvae and emerge 20 days later as juveniles. As the nest gets bigger and the story progresses, the book's pages become bigger too. Cross sections show the amazing construction of the nest and how the wasps live and work. The interior pages in A Wasp Builds a Nest are shingled, starting as a partial page and getting larger as the story progresses.

Throughout time, there have been many questions that have perplexed humanity. Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? Now, a new question has surfaced. What if you can't kill a witch by dropping a house on her? Our story begins with the Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man falling victim to a vengeful witch. Spread across the magical Land of Oz, three friends fight to reunite and form a plan to take back Glinda's castle and restore order out of chaos. Join Dorothy and a host of familiar characters from the Land of Oz, as well as a few new acquaintances as they battle for the control of Oz. Sail the Great Desert of Oz, brave the Dark Cave of Selar, and join forces with the Scarecrow's army to defeat the Wicked Witch and discover the whereabouts of Glinda the Good Witch.

Having rescued the good witch, Dorothy and her friends must now rescue a young girl from the wicked witch who is trapped in the modern world. In a massive operation that spans three different planes of existence, the Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man work to find a solution to capture the wayward witch and trap her in Oz. Reacquaint yourselves with Mr. Fluffles, Daphne Hammersmith, and a host of other characters, as well as make a few new friends. If you loved Broken, you will enjoy the second installment in this trilogy.Reviews are greatly appreciated.