Jason Chin
1) Coral reefs
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate and beautiful paintings, this extraordinary book by award-winning author and artist Chin is an epic saga of the life of an island--born of fire, rising to greatness, its decline, and finally the emergence of life on new islands.
3) Gravity
Author
Publisher
A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity, the invisible force that causes objects to attract each other. Here the author has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
5) Redwoods
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
6) Grand Canyon
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain"--
7) Watercress
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 2 & 3
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
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Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
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Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A picnic, a beach, a pie cut into pieces and shared with good friends. Pie is for sharing. It starts off round, and you can slice it into as many pieces as you want. What else can be shared? A ball, of course. A tree? What about time? Through the course of one memorable Fourth of July picnic, Stephanie Ledyard and Jason Chin take young readers through the ups and downs of sharing in this lovely picture book. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The almighty explosion that destroyed the volcano island of Krakatoa was followed by an immense tsunami that killed more than thirty thousand people. The effects of the waves were felt as far away as France, and bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. In this illustrated account based on Simon Winchester's bestselling Krakatoa, the colossal explosion is brought to vivid life. From the ominous warnings leading up to the eruption to the wave of killings...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"All living things must one day die, and Earth's largest creature, the majestic blue whale, is no exception. But in nature, death is never a true ending. When this whale closes her eyes for the last time in her 90-year life, a process known as whale fall is just beginning. Her body will float to the surface, then slowly sink through the deep; from inflated behemoth to clean-picked skeleton, it will offer food and shelter at each stage to a vast diversity...
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