Provides an introduction to hibernation, and explains how and why some animals prepare for and experience hibernation each year.
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The Patterns in Nature series provides developmentally appropriate science content to beginning readers. Each book has a simplified table of contents, with understandable chapter headings, which encourages application of pre-reading strategies. The index makes topical information accessible. Each book contains a glossary, additional text suggestions, and internet resources. Photographs and illustrations aid comprehension and encourage further reading. Why hibernate? Readers discover that bears and other hibernators store up food for fat, while other animals sleep for weeks without eating at all. Chipmunks store food in winter beds, while groundhogs make comfortable burrows. Spring beckons hibernators like snakes from their caves and squirrels from their nests in search of food. The seasonal patterns provide interesting illustrations of science content for young children. --NSTA Recommends, January 2007
Brilliant and interesting photographs, easily understood diagrams and a short, informative text are the highlights of this Patterns in Nature series, which features titles on day and night, hibernation, phases of the moon and seasons of the year. Children will indeed choose this book by its cover: it depicts a huge brown bear sound asleep, eating grass and grabbing a fish from the river. In answer to the question on the first page, why hibernate? we see a picture of splotches of snow stuck to a bear surrounded by snow. Food is hard to find. We see tiny animals hibernating also, including clusters of bats that don t even go to the bathroom. Getting ready to hibernate means getting fat on fish (bears), filling a burrow with acorns (chipmunks), or digging a warm hole in the mud (frogs). Each title features a pattern diagram on the last page--in this case getting ready, finding a den, hibernating, and leaving the den. Hibernating is one of nature s patterns. Children can see the principle and learn the words that explain that principle. There is a very short index, a glossary, a list of additional books, and a reference to the Facthoundweb site with links to age-appropriate sites for each book. This is an outstanding series of concept books for new and pre-readers; the photographs make the book interesting enough to use with older children who struggle with reading and concepts. --Childrens Literature Comprehensive Database, January 2007
For classrooms doing seasonal studies, this book offers great close-up shots of animals in their dens, but settling in for a long winters nap is a lot more work than youd think, and this slim volume explains the hibernation cycle, along with resources for further reading and online research with Fact Hound, Capstones own cartoon icon for active learning. --Smart Writers Journal, October 2006 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Brilliant and interesting photographs, easily understood diagrams and a short, informative text are the highlights of this Patterns in Nature series, which features titles on day and night, hibernation, phases of the moon and seasons of the year. Children will indeed choose this book by its cover: it depicts a huge brown bear sound asleep, eating grass and grabbing a fish from the river. In answer to the question on the first page, why hibernate? we see a picture of splotches of snow stuck to a bear surrounded by snow. Food is hard to find. We see tiny animals hibernating also, including clusters of bats that don t even go to the bathroom. Getting ready to hibernate means getting fat on fish (bears), filling a burrow with acorns (chipmunks), or digging a warm hole in the mud (frogs). Each title features a pattern diagram on the last page--in this case getting ready, finding a den, hibernating, and leaving the den. Hibernating is one of nature s patterns. Children can see the principle and learn the words that explain that principle. There is a very short index, a glossary, a list of additional books, and a reference to the Facthoundweb site with links to age-appropriate sites for each book. This is an outstanding series of concept books for new and pre-readers; the photographs make the book interesting enough to use with older children who struggle with reading and concepts. --Childrens Literature Comprehensive Database, January 2007
For classrooms doing seasonal studies, this book offers great close-up shots of animals in their dens, but settling in for a long winters nap is a lot more work than youd think, and this slim volume explains the hibernation cycle, along with resources for further reading and online research with Fact Hound, Capstones own cartoon icon for active learning. --Smart Writers Journal, October 2006 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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This review is from: Hibernation (Patterns in Nature series) (Paperback)
This nonfiction book first caught my attention because of the simplicity of the text explanations and the graphic, natural pictures. Hall produced a book that is simple enough for beginning readers to read and for teachers to use as an introduction to the subject of hibernation. The simple explanation of hibernation provides the basic information needed to produce jumping off points in curious students' minds. "Hibernation" covers the topics of why animals hibernate, how they get ready, where they rest, and the cycle of hibernation. Kathy Stephens (2008), outlines 5 areas that one should review a non-fiction piece with in order to determine the quality of the non-fiction piece. These areas are cover, topic and content, illustrations, organization, and font type and size. The cover jumps at the reader because of the big letters, natural pictures, and side pictures. The inside illustrations are large, up close, and of real life animals. They add to the pictures, stopping the reader as they flip through the book, drawing them in. The table of contents and glossary allows the reader the beginning abilities to use literature for research purposes. My favorite part was the basic and easy to follow, both in format and explanation, of the text. It is a great match for beginning readers.
Hall, M. (2007). Hibernation. Mankato: MN. Capstone Press. Stephens, K.E. (2008). A quick guide to selecting great informational books for young children. Readingrockets. [...]
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