Classroom Picks
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This Month’s Picks
by Nancy Smiler Levinson
illustrated in full color by Diane Dawson Hearn
This easy reader is packed with information about tropical and temperate rain forests around the world.
Gorillas, parrots, hissing cockroaches, and iguanas make their homes in rain forests. So do thousands of other mammals, birds, insects, and reptiles. Many lush trees and plants also live in each of the two types of rain forests, tropical and temperate. Filled with important facts, this book uses clear, simple prose and vivid, color-drenched illustrations to teach beginning readers about rain forests from all over the world.
“A straightforward, simple introduction to rain forests . . . a solid choice
for libraries.”
—School Library Journal
“A map shows the locations of rain forests around the world, and its key
identifies each locale and classifies it as tropical or temperate. . . .
Detailed acrylic paintings [show] the animals and plants of areas such as the
Congo basin, Borneo, and Costa Rica.”
—Booklist
by Marilyn Singer
illustrated in full color by Emma Stevenson
Many creatures, including amphibians, reptiles, insects, birds, and even some mammals, lay eggs. Eggs come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures, from jelly-covered bullfrog eggs that float to stringy octopus eggs that hang beneath sea ledges. Animals protect their eggs in specials ways, too. Seahorse eggs are carried in the father’s pouch, while Asian cave swiftlet eggs stay safe in a nest made of spit. As different as they are from one another, all eggs contain a special world, a place where a developing embryo can breathe, grow, and be nourished.
Extraordinary facts abound in this intriguingly written and intricately illustrated picture book about the varied appearances, development processes, environments, and survival challenges of eggs. Index, glossary, source notes included.
“Eggs of many shapes, sizes, colors, and textures are produced by a variety
of animals and introduced in short blocks of text and realistic paintings. . . .
The information is useful for life-cycle units.”
—School Library Journal
“Back matter includes such welcome features as an index, a glossary
coordinated with italicized terms in the text, source notes, and more than a
dozen websites for wildlife protection organizations.”
—The Bulletin of the
Center for Children’s Books
FLIP, FLOAT, FLY
Seeds on the Move
by JoAnn Early Macken
illustrated in full color by Pam Paparone
Wheee! With a gust of wind a dandelion seed takes off soaring through the sky. Where will it land? From splashing away in a raindrop to scurrying with scampering squirrels to hitching rides on your sleeves and socks, seeds have many ingenious ways of traveling to new places, growing roots, and beginning the cycle again.
Filled with delicately beautiful illustrations, this picture book will entrance young nature lovers. A glossary is included.
“Satisfying, and well designed for both classroom sharing and individual
reading.”
—Booklist
“[An] inviting introduction. . . Many of the double-page illustrations
contain a circular ‘bubble’ with close-ups of leaves, flowers, pods,
etc.’
—School Library Journal
