Sylvan Dell is a young company on a serious mission to create picture books that excite children’s imaginations, are artistically spectacular, and have educational value. All of our 70 books start with fun, warm stories, generally fiction with math, science, or nature themes and are brought to life by art. We have 80 wonderful authors and illustrators on our team. To each book, we add a 3-6 page “For Creative Minds” section that includes fun facts, crafts, vocabulary and games to reinforce the educational value and to support National & State Science and Math Standards. Finally, each book is carefully vetted by experts in the field including scientists and educators from NASA, NOAA, SeaWorld, Houston Zoo and various nature centers and aviaries. The stories, art, and educational sections of the books are wonderful in themselves but we have also greatly enhanced their value through online, supplemental resources including 40-60 page, cross-curricular Teaching Activities, 3 Interactive Quizzes, and Related Websites pages for each title. For teachers with projection or smartboards, or for any child with computer access, our eBooks and free resources are amazing. Our interactive, web-based eBooks feature Auto-Flip with selectable English and Spanish text and audio!! Each book homepage has the features shown below ... click any image above or click the following links to see samples from our book Whistling Wings... These are not textbooks in the traditional sense but rather fun picturebooks that a child will want to read over and over again. Our science and math learning objectives are there for the taking but the child’s reading pleasure is primary. We think having a child excited about a book and its subject enhances the opportunity for parents and teachers to build on that interest and to strike while the learning iron is hot! |
So Much More Than A Picture Book
