Duck (Starting Life Series)

by Claire Llewellyn, Simon Mendez (Illustrator)

Overview

These picture books illustrate the life cycles of fascinating animals and take readers through each stage that occurs from birth to adulthood. Lush, accurate illustrations of habitat feature plant life and other animals on die-cut pages that get longer as the subject grows!The interesting page sizes and full-page illustrations will appeal to young naturalist. ——-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNALA beautifully illustrated and detailed book about the life cycle of a monarch butterfly. ——-OUTSTANDING SCIENCE TRADE BOOKS FOR STUDENTS K-12 (NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION/CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781559718783
Publisher:	Cooper Square Publishing Llc
Publication date:	03/28/2004
Series:	Starting Life Series
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	7.91(w) x 8.97(h) x 0.44(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

Editorial Reviews

The life of a mallard duck is told in colorful pages that increase in size as the ducklings grow. The first and smallest page begins with the adult birds sitting on the nest. The next pages show the embryo inside the egg, illustrate the hatching of the baby ducks, and describe their first few days. Large pages at the end provide facts about the ducks' existence and survival, concluding with the grown ducks laying eggs and sitting on their nests. Each double page spread contains basic information in the large print text. Additional facts are given through smaller-print labels and inserts on the pictures. A good introduction for the study of ducks. 2004, Northwood, Ages 5 to 8.
—Phyllis Kennemer, Ph.D.

Children's Literature

PreS-Gr 3-These titles present the life cycles of a duck and an apple tree in lovely, painterly pictures and text. In the first book, proud mallard parents start out in a nest near a pond; eggs appear on the following spread, one in a cutaway showing an embryo chick's growth. Various predators threaten the hatchlings and, after six months, both male and female ducks are full grown and ready to migrate. Supplemental spreads on feeding in a pond, feathers, migrations, and courtship extend the information. From seed through the first six years of growth, the apple tree grows, matures, flowers, and produces fruit. Various denizens of the field cohabit at different times and in different seasons-snails threaten the sapling; nuthatches build a spring nest in the six-year-old tree; foxes, wasps, birds, and a squirrel feast on the autumn fruit. Pair this book with Gail Gibbons's The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree (Harcourt, 1984) and Apples (Holiday, 2000), Zoe Hall's The Apple Pie Tree (Blue Sky, 1996), and Johnny Appleseed biographies-those by Steven Kellogg (HarperCollins, 1988) and Reeve Lindbergh (Little, Brown, 1990) are excellent. The writing in both books is clear and direct and the child-enticing design-graduated pages, icons for each topic, illustrated glossaries, and the life cycle presented in a circle on the back endpapers-make these winners for all libraries and classrooms.-Dona Ratterree, New York City Public Schools Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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