Animals in Fall: Preparing for Winter (Cloverleaf Books ™ ― Fall's Here!)

This is a pretty good book on how animals prepare for winter. Deals with fattening up, hibernating, migration, fur changes, etc. Each "chapter" is around 4 pages long with about 8-10 lines to read. Read only one chapter at a time for really small kids like 2 year olds and read read the full book at once for older kids like 6-7 year olds.

This book was for preschool age they loved it

Children love to read and learn about animals. This solves their curious nature as to what happens to the animals during winter.

Bought for my classroom my students will love it.

great service kids loved the book

A boy and a girl, all bundled up for the cool fall weather, watch some ants crawl along the ground. A raccoon is out of sight nearby as he has curled up in his nearby den in preparation for the long winter ahead. A cool breeze shakes some colorful leaves from the trees and the boy wonders what will happen to the animals as winter approaches. They "know cool weather and shorter days mean summer is over." Fall is the time to make preparations for winter, but not all animals do not all do the same thing. Some like the gray whale in Alaska prepare for their long journey to to Mexico and "they live off [their] blubber as they migrate." The monarch butterflies and the Canada geese make their own preparations to head south.Some animals prepare to sleep through the winter and search for safe dens to nestled into. Before the black bears head to their dens to hibernate they "gobble fruits and nuts in the fall" and "gain as much as 30 pound (14 kilograms) each week." In this book you'll be amazed when you see how rattlesnakes prepare to hibernate. Another way that some animals make themselves ready for winter is to change. Snowshoe hares have brown hair in the fall, but in the winter "they must be white to match the snow" in order to protect themselves from predators. You will also learn what the white-tail deer does in the fall to make sure he is ready for winter.This is an excellent book that describes what happens to animals as they prepare for winter. As a beginning nonfiction chapter book the dialogue is simple and presented in large print. The illustrations are full page, are of high interest, and are presented in a picture book format, a format that makes the transition to the chapter book easier. Additional information can be found in leaf-shaped sidebars. For example, we find that "A flock of Canada geese often flies the same route each year. It also stops to rest in the same place." In the back of the book is an index, a glossary, a "Blubber Gloves Activity," and additional recommended book and website resources to explore.This book courtesy of the publisher.

This book covers the three major ways that animals deal with winter, migration, hibernation, and camouflage.There are a number of things that make this series very good for both educational purposes and pleasure reading. First, the design is attractive and easy to follow. The organization works especially well for a teacher who wishes to cover certain aspects of fall in an orderly manner. I also appreciated the use of a table of contents, glossary, index, and additional resources. Each book also contains an activity that goes along with the information covered in each book. The second thing I like is the friendly and appealing illustrations. The illustrations are very child friendly. I also enjoyed the text which is simple enough for younger readers, but also includes side notes for readers who want more information. The text is written as a narrative which makes for a good read a loud. I highly recommend this series for all those that want to learn more about fall. I liked the fact that I learned some things from these books that I did not know previously. For example, I did not realize that when apple seeds are planted the apples they produce are not the same variety of apple as the seed that was planted. Lots of interesting things to learn in these books.

This series of fall books by this publisher is wonderful. They offer preschoolers as well as somewhat older children an engaging way to learn about how nature responds to the changing weather of fall. It offers a main simple text for young children and a side bar with more complex concepts for older children. I appreciate that it uses scientific terms and not dumb-downed terms. The pictures are enjoyable as well. It also offers a related activity to do with children at the end. My children ages 3 to 9 years all enjoyed the book.

Sweet book that tells kids how various animals prepare for winter! cute illustrations too!