Looking Closely Around the Pond

Looking Closely Around the Pond
Author: Frank Serafini
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1553373952

Through the magic of close-up photography, the author first asks the reader to identify an object found in a pond in a super-close-up picture, with the next page revealing the entire picture.

Looking Closely Along the Shore

Looking Closely Along the Shore
Author: Frank Serafini
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1554531411

This book in the Looking Closely series will take children on a journey of discovery along the shore while inspiring them to ask questions and use their imaginations.

Looking Closely through the Forest

Looking Closely through the Forest
Author: Frank Serafini
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1771381183

Look closely. Look very closely. Is it € flakes of oatmeal? A moldy orange? Give up? Just turn the page and, lo and behold, it's a spotted toadstool! See what looks like gummy candy revealed as a millipede, a woolly scarf as frost on leaves, and many more surprises when you look closely through the forest. The Looking Closely series takes children on a journey of discovery through four environments -- the forest, the shore, the desert and the garden. Frank Serafini's camera lens enlarges each world through the magic of close-up photography. Young eyes will rediscover our planet as a place of beauty, mystery and delight. Readers are first challenged to guess the identity of each closeup photograph. The next page reveals the entire photograph of the plant, animal or natural object accompanied by a simple but detailed description of the habitat. By inspiring children to ask questions and use their imaginations, these books help build problem-solving skills. They also encourage curiosity about environments that, examined this closely, are full of unexpected wonders.

Reading the Visual

Reading the Visual
Author: Frank Serafini
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807754714

Reading the Visual is an essential introduction that focuses on what teachers should know about multimodal literacy and how to teach it. This engaging book provides theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical frameworks for teaching a wide-range of visual and multimodal texts, including historical fiction, picture books, advertisements, websites, comics, graphic novels, news reports, and film. Each unit of study presented contains suggestions for selecting cornerstone texts and visual images and launching the unit, as well as lesson plans, text sets, and analysis guides. These units are designed to be readily adapted to fit the needs of a variety of settings and grade levels.

All Around the Pond

All Around the Pond
Author: Lydia Finch Johnston
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2016-01-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1512728438

All Around the Pond takes readers on a journey through the seasons by using playful acrostics to reveal the rhythm, vastness, and divine connection of all living things under heaven. You alone are the Lord. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you. Nehemiah 9:6

A to Zoo

A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1657
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440834350

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

Publication

Publication
Author: University of California, Berkeley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 518
Release: 1917
Genre: America
ISBN:

Extreme Longevity

Extreme Longevity
Author: Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books ™
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541538196

Meet the science experts who study specimens of extreme longevity in both the plant and animal kingdoms, such as the 80,000-year-old root system of Pando (a colony of male quaking aspens), 11,000-year-old deep-sea sponges, and 400-year-old sharks. Learn about technologies used to determine age and longevity, including DNA sampling, growth rings, and radiocarbon dating. See how scientists located these long-lived species were and why and how they resist disease and aging. And delve into how scientists are using what they know about aged plants and animals to research how we can promote longevity in humans.

Pond Wildlife

Pond Wildlife
Author: Clare Hibbert
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 150814589X

Get ready to take a leap into the water in this exciting exploration of pond habitats. This volume examines different kinds of pond habitats, and the creatures that are found both in the water and on its edge, from bass to grass snakes to herons. Readers will learn about life cycles, ecosystems, and conservation, which are important curricula-based science topics. This volume pairs compelling text with vivid color photographs to bring readers on a nature walk they won’t soon forget. Diagrams, activities, and quizzes provide greater opportunities for exploration. This book is perfect for nature-enthused readers to get their feet wet identifying creatures and understanding the wonder of pond wildlife!

The Agora Files - Part II

The Agora Files - Part II
Author: Adam Oster
Publisher: Adam Oster
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1519131453

Escaping from prison was the easy part. With the girl he loves in prison, his brother kidnapped by a mysterious leader of the Agora, and a host of SP and rebellion leaders on the hunt for him, Cyrus knows he needs all the help he can get, no matter how uncomfortable he is with it. His new running partner, Bruno, is an escapee from the same prison Cyrus just escaped from and appears to have his own motives in mind. Cyrus has a lot of questions and a lot to do, and there are only six days left until the nation burns. The Agora Files – Part II takes the exciting Agora Files series even deeper into the world of The Agora and brings up one very necessary question for Cyrus as he is tasked with saving the nation: Who can be trusted?