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Fireflies in the Night: Revised Edition (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

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This book is about a young girl who visits who grandparents during the summer. Her grandparents live on a farm and know a lot about fireflies including how to catch and how to handle them. The young girl learns some interesting facts about the fireflies and how people in other countries use the light that fireflies provide. The grandfather explains how fireflies make their light; as well as the different light signals that males and females produce. This book can make readers eager to finish the page they are on, so that they can turn to the next page and learn another fascinating fact. It is a splendid introduction to fireflies!

I also recently purchase the fireflies in a jar and this book is a good supplement to that. My preschool kids will now understand all about fireflies.

The book "Fireflies in the Night" was a good introduction to beginning science for pre-schoolers because it uses a familiar phenomenon, the firefly, to teach about the concept of cool light as opposed to warm light. It was simply written to inform and not overly complex for the pre-schooler it was intended for, who is a curious 4-year old girl. She lives in Southern California and wanted to know about fireflies, which are not ordinarilly found where she lives.

There are other books listed on the back cover which appeal to the young and curious scientist and are also worthwhile.

The book arrived in tact and on time to present to my 4-year old granddaughter who is very inquisitive and loved receiving it and learning something new.

Marie Teehan, Del Mar, CA

Fireflies in the Night is an illustrated children's book that is suitable for first grade or thereabout. It is a reading book, nicely illustrated. It educates the child on fireflies, using different settings and different angles. Children love fireflies, are enamored by them, intrigued, and it is a good book to teach the child the process of inquiry, of a simple creature/event - fireflies lighting in the night - and finding out in a simple way a whole lot of information on fireflies. It is a very nice book for young children, perfect for the classroom, perfect for reading, media specialists should have it on their list, as should homeschoolers.

Home schooled children, especially, should have access to a wide variety of reading materials to facilitate a broad base of knowledge and experiences, that might not be available through a wide variety of teachers in the classroom. So, it is of importance to make sure homsechoolers of all ages have access to books on many different subjects, that they not all have in their libraries, but that they take time to read and digest.