Product Description

How to tell the difference between living and nonliving things—an essential first skill in scientific sorting and classifying—is explored with hands-on activities and colorful diagrams.

Best Children’s Science Book List 1995 (S)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89983 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-30
• Released on: 1995-08-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780064451321
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2?A simple and direct concept book that enables children to differentiate between living and inanimate things. Reader involvement is assured by a question-and-answer introduction that asks youngsters to consider how they are like a cat, a flower, or a bird. She urges children to draw pictures of everything they see on a walk and then to sort them into living and nonliving groups. Death is presented as part of life. Wescott's characteristically cheerful and lively illustrations depict a girl involved in a variety of activities, with interested cats and dog looking on. Their activity contrasts with the girl's doll, which is also present but can't move or express itself. A solid addition for classrooms and recreational reading.?Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Ages 5^-7. Part of the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, this uses simple words and pictures to introduce basic concepts of classification in biology. "Are you like a cat?" The immediacy of the questions and answers makes the child look closely at ordinary things, how they are the same and how they are different. Then the ideas get more complex ("like a flower and a tree, you are growing" ), and finally, the division is into living and nonliving things, with living things divided into plants and animals. The concepts aren't easy, and children will need to talk about them a lot. It helps that Zoehfeld keeps coming back to ideas in different ways and that Westcott's clear, cheerful line-and-color illustrations invite attention and help sort things out. Hazel Rochman

About the Author
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld has written many books for children, including How Mountains Are Made, What Is the World Made Of?, and What Lives in a Shell? in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. Ms. Zoehfeld lives in Norwalk, CT.

Lucia Washburn's first book for young readers was Look to the North by Jean Craighead George. She lives in Petaluma, CA.

Customer Reviews

A primary teacher's "must have" book
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.

Very useful
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.

A must-have for elementary science teachers
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.