This Place Is Cold (Imagine Living Here) [Paperback]

Vicki Cobb (Author), Barbara Lavallee (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Imagine Living Here

Focuses on the land, animals, plants, and climate of Alaska, presenting it as an example of a place where it is so cold your hair can freeze and break off.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

These inaugural titles of the Imagine Living Here series offer a colorful display of facts designed to pique readers' interests. In the first title, author and illustrator visit the Sonoran Desert in Arizona to show how various plants, animals and people have adapted to the heat and aridity. An explanation of how Phoenix was established offers historical facts alongside natural science. Cold shows how people and beasts survive ferocious cold, and includes discussions on the tundra and permafrost, and on how animals such as polar bears keep their wet fur from freezing. Oddly enough, there are more people depicted in this second work, although that may not indicate that one region is more populous than the other. One design element makes the work less accessible: the long, information-packed paragraphs look dense. Lavallee's buoyant watercolors are generally pleasant, but she depicts each face, desert cowboy's or Eskimo's, as half-light and half-dark. That seems like an artistic conceit, and may confuse issues of race rather than negate them. Ages 7-9.
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Review

“Boldly decorative, full-color paintings and cheerful, informative text introduce the adaptations necessary to cope with two diverse environments.”—Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Walker Childrens (May 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802773400
• ISBN-13: 978-0802773401
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,383,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Kids Book, July 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: This Place Is Cold (Imagine Living Here) (Paperback)

This is one of the best written, most comprehensive and accurate children's books about Alaska that I have found. The illustrations are well drawn and clever. This book holds the interest of young children and I would recommend it as a great addition to any young child's library.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great educational book!, April 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: This Place Is Cold (Imagine Living Here (Trade)) (Hardcover)

I was given this book by my aunt who moved to Point Barrow, Alaska to be a teacher there. She gave me this book to teach me about where she was to be living. This book taught me a lot in a very educational way. I highly recommend it, The pictures are great too!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not what I expected, January 14, 2008

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This review is from: This Place Is Cold (Imagine Living Here) (Paperback)

This book was not what I expected. It was informative, but very wordy. I wasn't able to use this book with my children at school.