Customer Reviews

What's Alive? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)

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Living things eat, drink, sleep and grow - a simple explanation with examples that will appeal to most small children (e.g. cats, dogs, birds). Living things also die, and this is touched upon very briefly. I am always looking for books to assist me in homeschooling my 5 yr old son, and it's difficult to find educational books that don't bore or beat a topic into the ground. This was a satisfying choice.

This book is excellent at explaining and illustrating what is alive. It uses simple language and examples to let young children understand what things are living or non living. The information is age appropriate for elementary school children, but can be modified for younger children.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book but I'm pleased with it. The subject matter hasn't totally clicked for my young daughter but it's just a matter of time before we read this book and she truly starts to catch on. I recommend the book, my 2 year old enjoys this one.

I purchased this book because my 3 year old son had lots of questions after our much loved dog died. It did help somewhat. I like that it focuses on the qualifications for what is living versus what is "not alive" (rather than "dead"). And that it does not scare kids (too much focus on the "death" part can be scary for toddlers).

I am an elementary school librarian and this book addresses one of the basic questions asked by Kinders and First Graders. I bought two for the library and our primary teachers are now ordering their own. Can't lose on this one.

One of the better "Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1" series. Although I hate to recommend a book that doesn't really show you what's inside when it advertises "Search Inside."

I bought this book for my nephew. He loves it! It gives enough information that the child learns new things but not so much that he can't understand. He's four and he's asking lots of questions. We've actually purchased a number of books from the "Let's read and find out Science 2" series and they all provide lots of information. His mom says that she even learns new things from them.

A great value and an asset to any child's library.

My 2 1/2 year old daughter likes this book. So do I. I had to edit one page about death but it all makes since. I was surprised one day when she told someone that dogs need energy and she proceeded to tell them that they get energy from food, water and the sun. Blew me out of the water! Children are like sponges and they want to know how things work just like we do. These books are great at introducing the facts of life to young children and they can explain it better than I can.

We bought this for our almost 3 year old and she likes it. Like one other reviewer, we "edited" the page about not alive (little bird that fell from a tree) but I think she gets the gist. The only thing that has been a problem is we read this for bed time so it's a little hard to work around the activity. It takes up a couple pages at the end of the book and doesn't really work in story format. But as a whole the book is a great introduction to what's alive and explains the basics so a 3 year old can follow along.

I love the illustrations, and, like almost all of the LR&FO Science books, I approve (and enjoyed) the presentation of some of the material. As usual, the activities/experiments in each of these books are awesome.

My only 'beef' with the book was that it discusses the classifications of 'plants' and 'animals'. "You are an animal, too" the book says. The look of perplexed horror on my (5yo) child's face was disturbing,... and I was disturbed, too.

Animals are ANIMALS. People are PEOPLE. I think it's pretty plain, even to a child, that people are significantly different from animals. And because this unnecessary statement was included in the book, it completely took away from our enjoyable reading time, and required us to stop, and open a discussion about what they mean by 'we are animals'.

I'm asking myself, "Is the rest of the book good enough that you'd have bought it anyway, omitting the 'People are animals' text?" The answer is - Probably not. I do love the rest of it, and it's recommended activity - but we're buying these books so she can enjoy them over and over... and on her own, once she's reading fully. And I definitely don't want her reading that we are animals.

I guess, now that I've gone thru the trouble to type that out, I'd have to say, "No. We wouldn't re-purchase this book."