Animals in Winter
10 best books like Animals in Winter (Henrietta Bancroft): Archaeologists Dig for Clues, Over and Under the Snow, Winter on the Farm, From Tadpole to Frog, How Do Apples Grow?, Friends, Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs, The Happy Day, The Skeleton Inside You, Down Comes the Rain
| Author | Kate Duke |
| ISBN | 0064451755 |
This book provides an engaging and informative look at how archaeologists work, as a few schoolchildren work with an archaeologist named Sofie to look for artifacts in the remains of an Archaic-era settlement.
I like how this book makes archaeology look exciting, but also focuses on the scientific...
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 0811867846 |
A cross country skiing outing by dad and daughter becomes the occasion for a consideration of all the critters living (mostly) under the snow during the winter. A companion book with the same level of lovely illustration to Over and Under the Pond, which I may even like a bit more, but they're both great,...
| Author | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
The Little House books tell the story of a little pioneer girl and her family as they traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books, illustrated with Garth Williams' timeless artwork, have been cherished by millions of readers ever since they were first published...
| Author | Wendy Pfeffer |
| ISBN | 0064451232 |
Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series
A tadpole is a baby frog!
Female frogs lay masses of jelly-coated eggs in the water, but what hatches from each egg isn't a frog yet—it's a tadpole....
| Author | Betsy Maestro |
| ISBN | 0064451178 |
As a mom, I love trying to pick out the perfect books to match my kids' interests. My four-year-old eats one to three apples each day, so I thought he might like this book.
The best part was when we learned how the blossom end of an apple still shows the remnants of its origins, and my son exclaimed,...
| Author | Helme Heine |
| ISBN | 0689710836 |
Goods friends always stick together.
Charlie Rooster, Johnny Mouse, and Percy the pig are the best of friends. They do everything together. They ride their bike together, play games together, and even do their chores together. Because that's what good friends do. When night falls, though,...
| Author | Patricia Lauber |
| ISBN | 0064451305 |
Informative and intriguing, this science book teaches children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival, no matter how big or how small. Lively drawings from Holly Keller illustrate...
| Author | Ruth Krauss |
| ISBN | 0060233966 |
There are two kinds of winter: the nostalgic winter, in which Christmas lights twinkle in the snow and everyone drinks hot chocolate around a fireplace, and real winter, in which snow is yellow and brown, commutes to work are dangerous nightmares, and everyone's noses and toes freeze off. The Happy...
| Author | Philip Balestrino |
| ISBN | 0064450872 |
What does your skeleton do?
Your skeleton helps you leap, somersault, and touch your toes—without it, you would be as floppy as a beanbag! There are over 200 bones living and growing inside you that make up your skeleton. There are also ligaments and joints that hold your bones together, and...
| Author | Franklyn Mansfield Branley |
| ISBN | 0064451666 |
Starts with the idea of water vapor being something that is in the air but that you can't see, or smell or feel it. It then explains evaporation by suggesting putting a teaspoon of water in a saucer in the morning and that it will have evaporated by later in the day or a boiling tea kettle. It explains that sometimes...
| Author | Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld |
| ISBN | 0064451631 |
This books teaches about matter, and goes into detail about solids, liquids, and gases. I really like how the author made it connect to real life so readers are able to see how they interact with matter on a daily basis. I read this as an ebook, so it could be easily accessible to students if they each had a...
| Author | Deborah Heiligman |
| ISBN | 0064451291 |
A caterpillar comes to school in a jar and the class watches the caterpillar each day as it grows and changes. Soon, it disappears into a hard shell called a chrysalis. Where did it go? This is a perfect beginner's guide to the mystery of metamorphosis.
Named as a NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science...
| Author | Gail Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0823412385 |
Cold winters, hot summers--year after year the seasons repeat themselves. But what causes them?
Why is there winter in the Southern Hemisphere at the same time there is summer in the Northern Hemisphere? In summertime, why is it still light out in the evening? With simple language appropriate...
| Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
| ISBN | 0064451968 |
A tree is the biggest plant that grows.
Trees can live for a very long time, and they are alive all year long, even when they look dead in winter.
In this newly illustrated book, you will learn how a tree grows and how it gets food and water. You can also find out what happens to water after...
| Author | Anne Rockwell |
| ISBN | 0064452204 |
This is a nicely detailed, very informative book about clouds that will not only interest the young child, but also the adult. The illustrations are similar to folk art paintings and are very appealing.In this book you will learn what clouds are made up of, the different kinds of clouds, what their names...
You've seen your own blood, when you have a cut or a scrape. You can see the veins in your wrist, and you've seen the scab that forms as a cut heals. But do you know what blood does for you? Without blood, you couldn't play, or grow, or learn. That's because just about every part of your body needs blood, from...
| Author | Betty Tatham |
| ISBN | 0064452069 |
Penguin Chick is a great book It is written very clearly, and explains the meaning of new words, like rookery, krill, crèche, and tobagganing. It is a very thorough look at a penguin's life cycle, but is short and simple enough that a child could follow along enthusiastically all the way through. It may...
| Author | Martin Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0763622338 |
"Students who are wild about penguins and classrooms doing units on them will find THE EMPEROR'S EGG an action-packed read." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Can you imagine spending the winter outdoors in Antarctica without anything at all to eat? That’s just what the male Emperor penguin does....
Miles and Miles of Reptiles: All About Reptiles
| Author | Tish Rabe |
| ISBN | 0375928847 |
Leaping lizards—the Cat and Co. explore the world of reptiles!
The Cat in the Hat travels the globe—in his trusty crocodile car—to explore the world of reptiles: lizards, snakes, turtles, and crocodilians. Along the way, young readers learn the characteristics shared by most reptiles;...
| Author | Seymour Simon |
| ISBN | 0688099920 |
Our Solar System was born almost 5 billion years ago at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. In over fifty dramatic, full-color photographs and an easy-to-read text, award-winning author Seymour Simon takes you on a fascinating tour of the nine planets, dozens of moons, and thousands of asteroids, meteoroids,...
