Everest Academy has applied for and been awarded a free license for Sylvan Dell.  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 books start with fun, warm stories, generally fiction with math, science, or nature themes and are brought to life by art. We have 57 wonderful authors and illustrators on our team. We then add a 3-5 page “For Creative Minds” section that includes fun facts, crafts, vocabulary and games to reinforce the educational value and to support National 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 books are wonderful in themselves but what we are really about is our online presence and providing online cross-curricular resources for each title. For families with computer access, our eBooks and free resources are amazing.

These are not textbooks in the traditional sense but rather fun picture books 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!

Please contact Deb Spradlin to receive the Sylvan Dell Everest Academy link.