Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) [Paperback]

Patricia Lauber (Author), Holly Keller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 14, 1994 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2

An award-winning author and artist explain how every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival. "Clear, simple drawings illustrate the clear, simple text. Informative and intriguing, this basic science book leads children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth."'BL.

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1996 (NSTA/CBC)

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Ages 5^-8. This Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book presents food chains and food webs on land and under water. Besides showing who eats what in the wild, it brings the food chain idea closer to home with the suggestion that children draw pictures showing the chains for the things they eat, such as their milk, which came from a cow, which ate grass. Clear, simple ink-and-watercolor drawings illustrate the clear, simple text. Informative and intriguing, this basic science book leads children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Carolyn Phelan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Patricia Lauber is the author of more than sixty-five books for young readers. Many of them are in the field of science, and their range reflects the diversity of her own interests-bats, dolphins, dogs, volcanoes, earthquakes, the ice ages, the Everglades, the planets, earthworms. Two of her books, SEEDS: POP STICK GLIDE and JOURNEY TO THE PLANETS, were nonfiction nominees for The American Book Awards. She was the 1983 winner of The Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for her overall contribution to children's nonfiction literature.

As well as writing books, Ms. Lauber has been editor of Junior Scholastic, editor-in-chief of Science World, and chief editor, science and mathematics, of The New Book of Knowledge

A graduate of Wellesley College, she is married and lives in Connecticut. When not writing, she enjoys hiking, sailing, traveling, cooking, reading, and listening to music.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Collins (December 14, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0064451305
• ISBN-13: 978-0064451307
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great, July 31, 2001

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This review is from: Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) (Library Binding)

By the time the kids are at this level most of them already have some idea of the food chain concept (and anybody who has played Magic School Bus Animals definitely will!). It sits right at the cross roads of two levels- a solid first grade book, perhaps.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My 2nd Graders Thought This Was Cool, June 4, 2003

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This review is from: Who Eats What? (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science: Stage 2) (School & Library Binding)

Interesting, written on a level primary school students can understand, and packed with information

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great explanation -- awesome illustrations, March 12, 2010

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This review is from: Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) (Paperback)

This book works well with the picture book "The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten" or "MSB Food Chain Frenzy". Best thing of all is the illustrations in this book -- they really convey the information. My kids really "get" it from the visuals.