Count backwards from ten to one during one of the most colorful times of year: fall. Learn about the bright, colorful leaves and the trees from which they fall: aspen, birch, maple, oak, chestnut, linden, pine, beech, dogwood, and sweet gum. Watch the animals frolicking in the crisp, autumn air as they get ready for the approaching cold winter. The For Creative Minds educational section includes: Plant parts, Leaves the shape of it all, What good are plants?, Match the leaves activity.
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PreSchool-Grade 2—Bold, full-spread illustrations with inset details feature a variety of trees and woodland animals in this informational picture book. As the facts about trees count down, the images represent the numbers 10 to 1, while corner insets show the tree, spring and fall leaves, a seed, and occasionally the flower of the specific tree pictured, such as birch, dogwood, oak, and maple. Children will be drawn to examine the expressive images of animals and find additional ones along the detailed border featuring close-ups of the tree's bark. This attention to detail makes the book more than a simple counting or seasonal book with both the four-line stanzas and art offering simple facts: "Six linden leaves/in Valentine shapes/reflect golden sun/in autumn's landscape." The counting pattern gets disrupted at three, opting for numerous "three-pointed maple leaves," and birch leaves shown falling "two by two." A spread, "For Creative Minds," includes quizzes and challenges readers to match facts with images, note specifics about leaf shapes, and learn about how plants support animals.—Janet S. Thompson, Chicago Public Library END
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A cheerful rhyming verse on each double-page spread tells more about the season: the trees, the colors, the shapes of the leaves, and the animals in the woods. --Booklist
This is a GORGEOUS book. You can go on a fall nature walk without leaving the comfort of your home or classroom when you read this book. --A Year of Reading
I've never been knowledgeable about the different types of trees, and this book will allow me to learn about them alongside my children! There is no better way to discover than side-by-side with your child! --Tif Talks Books
This is a GORGEOUS book. You can go on a fall nature walk without leaving the comfort of your home or classroom when you read this book. --A Year of Reading
I've never been knowledgeable about the different types of trees, and this book will allow me to learn about them alongside my children! There is no better way to discover than side-by-side with your child! --Tif Talks Books
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Count Down to Fall is a great educational book about autumn.,
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This is a wonderful book. It is the perfect combination of text book and picture book. The author, Fran Hawks, uses a rhythmic verse about leaves, trees and creatures to count down from ten to one. The illustator, Sherry Neidigh, creates brilliant, stimulating scenes to capture the eye. I can't wait to share it with my preschool grandchildren. For older children, it contains a section "For Creative Minds" with activities such as matching that are very educational. If you purchase the book, you are released to make copies of the worksheets for teaching tools. I highly recommend this book to educators (and grandmas).
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Colorful, Great Rhyming Fun,
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This review is from: Count Down to Fall (Paperback)
Purchased at a national park gift shop. The kids love it. This is a favorite read several times a week. Wonderful to see my children at the park in search of the leaves and seeds they have discovered in this book. So pleased we purchased a copy as a gift for teacher's classroom library.
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beautiful artwork and insightful,
This review is from: Count Down to Fall (Paperback)
This is a great fall book. A perfect simple book about trees. Just what we have been looking for. We love how each page has the tree, a summer leaf and a fall leaf and its fruit. It has nice clear, beautifully drawn, pictures of the trees. To add to it there are great little rhymes for each page and charming animals hidden all over. My nature loving boys, 6 and 9, love it.
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