Wanda's Better Way

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Pub Date Nov 01 2017 | Archive Date Mar 08 2019
Children's Fiction

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Young Wanda is a girl on a mission; she wants to decide what to do when she grows up. Will she be a dancer? A landscape designer? Maybe a pastry chef? Her teachers and parents all make suggestions, but Wanda sets out to explore each option on her own. Along the way she invents a clever pulley system, a squirrel-proof bird feeder, and the best way to separate eggs. With the school career fair (and adulthood) looming on the horizon, what will Wanda decide? From the award-winning children’s author Laura Pedersen comes Wanda’s Better Way, an educational picture book about believing in yourself and pursuing your passion.

Young Wanda is a girl on a mission; she wants to decide what to do when she grows up. Will she be a dancer? A landscape designer? Maybe a pastry chef? Her teachers and parents all make suggestions...

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Advance Praise

"Bright encouragement for young scientists and makers." —Kirkus Reviews


"With short, easy to read and understand sentences and realistic illustrations, Wanda’s Better Way is a nice way to introduce STEM concepts and the scientific method to younger budding scientists and readers." —Rosemary Kiladitis, momreadit.wordpress.com


"The examples along with the methods should provide great inspiration for young readers to try solving their own problems." —Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com

"Bright encouragement for young scientists and makers." —Kirkus Reviews


"With short, easy to read and understand sentences and realistic illustrations, Wanda’s Better Way is a nice way to introduce...

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ISBN 9781682750148
PRICE $17.95 (USD)
PAGES 36

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Wanda's Better Way is a story of a little girl finding herself-- for now.. Wanda drifts from activity to activity and the adults in her life notice she is bored. But in each activity, Wanda finds and solves a problem, through her own invention, using the scientific process. The book is beautifully illustrated and notable for Wanda being part of a biracial family. The illustrations are necessary to the story, which is sparsely told, using activities others in Wanda's family enjoy but which are not quite right for Wanda. An afterward includes an excellent introduction to the scientific process for children including the fact that success is not always the outcome and we must try again.

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This was a cute story about a little girl that wants to try different jobs when she grows up. There are things about each job that she doesn't like, so she decides to invent ways to solve those problems. The pictures were bright and the text was simple.I like that the family was biracial.

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