Review By KRISTIN WALD Butterfly Counting is much more than a colorful counting book. It is a butterfly-focused collection of gorgeous artwork, a language book, and a mini-encyclopedia of facts about butterflies, moths, a grasshopper, and even a penguin! The author’s sense of humor comes through in the introductory pages that point out that there […]
Entries Tagged as 'Wild Animals'
Butterfly Counting
January 4th, 2016 · 5 Comments · Books
Tags: Butterflies·Counting·Illustration·Insects·Jerry Pallotta·Kristin Wald·Preschoolers·Shennen Bersani·Wild Animals
Dirty Rats?
October 15th, 2015 · No Comments · Books
Review By KRISTIN WALD Using what we’ve learned to hate about rats, DIRTY RATS?, leads us from familiar (disgusted!) territory to cute, helpful, furry territory with interesting facts and adorable images of many different kinds of rats. Author Darrin Lunde is a mammalogist with the American Museum of Natural History, so he knows his rats. And […]
Tags: Adam Gustavson·Darrin Lunde·Early Elementary·Issues Facing Wildlife·Kristin Wald·Rats·Urban Wildlife·Wild Animals
Three Little Beavers
February 2nd, 2015 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER KALI Three Little Beavers tells the story of Beatrix the Beaver and her two siblings. Beatrix worries that she’s not as good at anything as her brother and sister, who seem to be good at everything. But when the three beavers get caught in beaver traps, Beatrix’s abilities start to shine. When […]
Tags: Beavers·Confidence·Good for Toddlers·Illustration·Issues Facing Wildlife·Living With Wildlife·Preschoolers·Wild Animals·Wildlife Books for Kids
Letters of the West: An ABC Book of the Many Plants, Animals, and Other Curious Features of the West
September 25th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Books
Review By HOMA WOODRUM I received a review copy of Letters of the West: An ABC Book of the Many Plants, Animals, and Other Curious Features of the West from the publisher just after we returned from a road trip that took us alone the length of Nevada from Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe and […]
Tags: Alphabet·Animals·Early Elementary·Homa Woodrum·Nature·Nature Books·Plants·Preschoolers·United States·Wild Animals·Wildlife