Candy Bunny Reader

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick is, in a nutshell an informational book about how the discovery of dinosaur fossils during the Victorian era in England completely changed science as they knew it.  The book explores how over time, scientists came to discover fossils of ancient creatures and how they were able to determine what they were. It's not an easy process! For ages, people thought they were looking at fossils of mythological creatures (such as dragons), until they realized a lot of what they were looking at resembled skeletons of animals they already knew.  Also for a very long time, many scientists (including renowned ones) were actually people who worked for the Church. Religion and science were heavily intertwined because the goal of science back then was to see how did God create (a perfect) world. When they found out things such as extinction was a thing and the Earth was a lot older than they believed it was, it led to the schism of science and rel...

This is my second Julie Andrews book! The first one I read was Mandy back in 2022, a little bit after I started my blog. You can read the review for it here .  The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles is about three siblings: Lindy, Ben, and Thomas, who meet an eccentric science professor one day on a trip to the zoo. The professor--his name is Savant--tells them there used to be magical creatures called Whangdoodles that existed on Earth, but they've all disappeared. They are all now in a mystical place called Whangdoodleland, and he says that it is possible to get there as he has done so before, but he has yet to actually meet the Whangdoodle, who is also the king. The three children get very interested in this, and they asked their parents if they can join the professor in his journey to get to Whangdoodle. They start visiting Professor Savant every day and he shows them tips and tricks on changing their perspectives on sight and smell, and really expanding their imaginat...

Just like the last book I reviewed on here, you don't know how long I've been wanting to get around to this book. Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman is a memoir about the author's true story of how she charted and followed the migration paths of monarch butterflies from Mexico to Canada and back to Mexico again. She completed the whole journey via biking! Every chapter of the book recounts every place Dykman biked through and stopped at. She found lots of monarchs, but all sorts of other wildlife too, most important of them all being milkweed, which is what monarch butterflies need to lay their eggs. She also talked about how and where she would find places to camp out in her tent for the nights she was on the road. It wasn't always easy! During her journey she would sometimes go to schools and universities to talk about her journey and scientific research and facts she knew about monarch butterflies. She also talked about all of the people she met along the way...