Animals Do, Too!

How They Behave Just Like You

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Pub Date 02 May 2017 | Archive Date 23 May 2017

Description

?Do you like to dance?? asks the first spread of this playful nonfiction picture book. ?Honeybees do, too!? responds the next. Illustrating the simple text are joyful drawings that visually connect the children enjoying a dance party to the honeybees performing their own ?dance? in the hive. A block of more in-depth text fleshes out what the honeybees are actually doing and why: their waggle dance tells other honeybees ?where to find a tasty meal.? Using this same rhythmic question-and-answer style throughout, the book compares a series of children's favorite activities to similar things that animals do. From playing tag and leapfrog (gazelles and cattle egrets) to blowing bubbles and getting piggyback rides (gray tree frogs and marmosets), there are seven activities/animals in all. And though the behaviors might look the same, while the children are playing, the animals are performing essential tasks such as finding food or caring for their young.

Award-winning author Etta Kaner has created a fun, engaging exploration of some ways animals behave just like people. By highlighting connections between human and animal behaviors, she encourages children to develop compassion for other creatures and to recognize their place within the natural world. This book would make an excellent resource for early life science lessons on the characteristics of living things, especially with the expanded information in the back matter about each of the animals found in the book. The question-and-answer pattern of the text together with Marilyn Faucher's inviting, detailed illustrations work as an entertaining, interactive read-aloud as well.

?Do you like to dance?? asks the first spread of this playful nonfiction picture book. ?Honeybees do, too!? responds the next. Illustrating the simple text are joyful drawings that visually connect...


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ISBN 9781771385695
PRICE CA$17.95 (CAD)
PAGES 32

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What a great idea. A book about how animals and kids are alike. In this very interesting yet quite fun title, readers are asked it they like to do something such as blow bubbles or play tag. On the next two-page spread, there is an illustration of a type of animal doing the same thing with a description about what they are doing and why they do it. There were several in this book that I did not know about. A great book about animals for young children, but it can be used for many things. When teaching about animals, their habits, adaptive skills etc, this would make a great book to introduce the unit or at a table for the children to read. The illustrations are wonderful. They are colourful and fun. Kids could have fun with this book acting out the various movements etc. A great book for any library; public, school or classroom.

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A book about how animals and kids are alike. In this very interesting yet quite fun title, readers will learn about how animals do things that children do too. Children love to dance, but did you know that bees love to dance too? How about leap frog and blowing bubbles? With fun illustrations and activities that kids can act out, this will be a great book for young children and animal lovers alike.

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