Tamara Saarinen

1 month ago | slj.com | Tamara Saarinen |Amanda MacGregor

. Jul. 2025. 40p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9780316456692. Gr 1-4 COPY ISBN Gr 1-4–Fascinating facts are the focus of this concept book: “A banana slug has four tentacles.

Dec 20, 2024 | slj.com | Patricia Buckley |Tamara Saarinen |Amanda MacGregor

. Jan. 2025. 40p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780063046979. COPY ISBN Gr 1-5–“They sat with their feet dangling in thirty-five stories of air, eating lunch with the best views in the world. Generation after generation, skywalkers sculpted city skylines that pierced the clouds.” The history of how Iroquois came to be well-known steel workers begins with the Caughnawaga requiring a railroad company to hire their people as workers on a bridge project in exchange for land.

Oct 22, 2024 | slj.com | Tamara Saarinen

. Sept. 2024. 48p. Tr $19.99. ISBN 9780063242418. COPY ISBN Gr 2-5–“Junko’s hill was her entire world” opens this biography of an amazing mountaineer. At age 10, after climbing Mount Chausu, Junko Tabei found her passion. As an adult in Tokyo, she joined a mountaineering club that accepted women and spent her weekends climbing. She married a fellow mountaineer, started her family, and continued climbing. Tabei also “knitted other women climbers together, just as a ridge joins mountain tops.

Oct 4, 2024 | slj.com | Annette Whipple |Tamara Saarinen |Caroline Kusin Pritchard

Gr 3-5–With the right mix of full-color photos and fast, snappy facts, this book on sharks will appeal to all. Two pages are focused on one topic, e.g., “Do Sharks Lay Eggs?” The photos, large and small, call attention to specific details that are splashed across the pages.

Aug 31, 2024 | slj.com | Elisa Boxer |Tamara Saarinen |Kate Allen |Nessa Diab

Gr 2-5–“I was supposed to be destroyed.” This is the opening line and the refrain of this provocative story of a White House beam removed during the 1952 rebuild. The beam recounts history it witnessed: 400 rabbis coming to the White House in 1943 to ask President Roosevelt to allow European Jews entry (they were turned away), a piano leg coming through the ceiling in 1948, and the partial demolition and rebuild of the White House. The beam was “Salvaged. Sent to a storage warehouse.