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Some animals' fur turns white. Other animals hibernate. Winter is here! Celebrate the season with lovely photos and a simple design that beautifully support early readers.
Snow falls, animals hibernate, and people bundle up, it's winter! Check out all the changes that come with longer nights and colder temperatures.
Read and find out about how animals cope with winter in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book. This is a clear and appealing book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. Introduce kids to basic science ideas as part of discussions about the seasons and animals. Have you ever seen a butterfly in the snow? Probably not. Butterflies can't survive cold weather, so when winter comes, many butterflies fly to warmer places. They migrate. Woodchucks don't like cold weather either, but they don't migrate; they hibernate. Woodchucks sleep in their dens all winter long. How do these and other animals handle the cold and snow of winter? Read and find out in the proven winner Animals in Winter! This is a Level 1 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores introductory concepts perfect for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are: hands-on and visual acclaimed and trusted great for classrooms Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs: Entertain and educate at the same time Have appealing, child-centered topics Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists Meet national science education standards Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.
A book for 7 - 10 year oldsLets Learn About Animals that HibernateAround the world, there are a lot of animals who like to sleep through the winter, or other times of the year. This action is called hibernation (hi*ber*nay*tion) . Many people think only bears do this but there are other animals who like a long nap too. You can see animals running all around digging holes and looking for nuts on the ground and other food that will help them go through the long winter months.Some animals sleep in trees, like squirrels do. Some sleep in caves or hollows, like bears do. Many of these animals try to find a nice hole in the ground because even when it is very cold outside, their home stays warm when it is underground.They want to be safe from the snow, wind and rains of springtime. Their home has to be just right and fit them so that it can stay warm as they sleep through all kinds of weather.Not all animals sleep the whole winter so let us look at the two kinds of hibernating animals, light sleepers and deep sleepers.Light Sleepers are animals like bears and raccoons that wake up from time to time. On warm days they may want to go out and take a walk around. Heavy Sleepers are called True Hibernators. They go into a very deep sleep in the winter. If you saw them they might even look like they were not alive any more, that is how slow they breathe.Lets find out more about these two types of animals. You may even have seen some getting ready for Winter near where you live. Can you guess what some of them are before you read more? Why not write them down and see how many you can guess.We will learn a little about each animal and how it prepares for winter.Table of ContentsHibernationLight SleepersBearsChipmunksGround SquirrlesSkunksRaccoonsHedgehogsCrocodilesTurtlesBeesHeavy SleepersMarmotsPrairie DogsHamstersFrogsGarter SnakesBats
In this cozy bedtime story, follow a child and his grandma through a winter landscape to explore how the Earth goes to sleep for winter. Spot the sleeping animals as the tale unfolds, then learn about their hibernation habits from the information pages at the end. Co-authors Sean Taylor (picture book author) and Alex Morss (ecologist, journalist, and educator) offer a gentle introduction to the concept of hibernation. In the frosty, quiet forest, the snow blankets the ground and the trees have shed their leaves. Where have all the animals gone? Are they asleep too? In each cutaway scene, see what the child cannot—that underground below his feet are dens with sleeping creatures, and within the hollow trunks of trees, animals are nesting. After the story, annotated illustrations explain the hibernation facts for each animal and what they will do when they wake up for spring. Cozy up as you expand you and your child's knowledge of the natural world.
"Follow the white rabbit through the snowy winter and see what all the different animals do to survive the cold and snow"--Back cover. Suggested level: junior.
