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You're making your list, you're checking it twice.

It's books all around for kids naughty and nice.

At the end of the day, the best book for a kid is the book that they're going to read and enjoy.

It's Monday, December 9th, a new week ahead of us, and it's also Science Friday.

I'm SciFRI producer Kathleen Davis.

Here on this show, we feel pretty strongly that books are a great gift for kids, especially books about science.

But it can be hard to know what kind of science books your little ones might be interested in and which ones are worth the buy.

If you're not, we've got the expert picks for the top science books for kids of

24, and we've also answered some of your questions about what books the kids in your life

might enjoy. Here's Ira Flato. Manaz Dar, young readers editor at Kirkus Reviews in New York

and Carrie Wilson Collection Development Librarian at the

Boulder Public Library in Boulder, Colorado. Welcome to Science Friday.

Way to be here. Thank you. Good to be here. Nice to have you, of course. Okay, let's go right

to these because I know folks are waiting to hear your recommendations. Broadly speaking,

let me ask both of you, and Manaz,

you can go first. What makes a good kid science book? Obviously, you want something that's going

to be informative, that's going to be accurate. But I think it's also important to have a good

entry point, you know, something that's going to be original, grab a kid's attention.

And I feel like humor is often a really good way to do that. We've been seeing a lot of books

with graphic formats, you know, just a way to kind of spice up the information. I remember when I was

a little kid, I had a lot of science books in the library, but they didn't quite have the fun that a lot of these

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