Caroline Arnold (1)Reseñas

independent reading level: 1-5

Very informative book! As a teacher, you can tie in science and health. Along with keeping the child's interest! Lots of great examples in this book with captions to explain how the animal or person keeps cool or warm in their environment.

This was a beautiful book, the illustrations and text are rich and immersive.

The end notes are interesting.

Imagine being the 3/4 wives of Shah Jahan who were NOT Mumbat. 🫠.

great example of journaling; fictional nonfiction

Baby Whale Rescue is the true story of J. J., a baby gray whale that was found struggling and near death at Marina del Rey beach in Los Angeles. She was rescued and taken to Sea World where she was nursed back to health for many months before being released back into the wild. The story details these months from the moment of her rescue until she was placed back into the ocean. There was a lot involved in keeping her alive from feeding her specially made formula until she could eat solid food to teaching her how to hunt for her own food and making sure she recognized the calls of other gray whales. For part of her time at Sea World, she also became a popular attraction. Then when she was big enough to go back to her wild home, there was a lot involved in getting such a huge creature moved to the ocean.

Overall, Baby Whale Rescue was an interesting story that would be great for kids who enjoy animals. Although it is a picture book, the narrative is longer and more involved with a number of advanced words that would be more appropriate for older elementary age students who are learning to be more proficient with reading. The fact that the book is about an animal—and a baby animal at that—might give it appeal to younger kids, too, for a read-aloud story time with parents or educators. However, it might not hold their attention as well. The main reason I dropped the star is because I felt that the writing could have been a little more engaging and accessible for younger readers. But kids who love animals will probably be impressed with some of the fun facts, such as J. J.’s size and how much she could eat every day.

Synergy: Lighthouse

Lighthouses emit lights to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots. These beacons may be housed in a tower, building or other structure. Lighthouses identify hazards such as dangerous reefs, rocks, and coastlines. They may also be used as a guide to safe harbors.

Read the recently published nonfiction picture book for children, then learn more at the websites:

KEEPER OF THE LIGHT: JULIET FISH NICHOLS FIGHTS THE SAN FRANCISCO FOG by Caroline Arnold is a fascinating biography exploring the experiences of a light keeper in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and other challenges. Inspired by light keeper logs, the engaging story brings history alive for young readers.

JULIET FISH NICHOLS is a short article in Lighthouse Digest with useful information and photographs.

Go to http://www.lighthousedigest.net/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=2185

THE LIGHTHOUSE DIRECTORY identifies thousands of lighthouses around the world.

Go to http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/

The PHAROLOGY website explores the history of lighthouses, how they work, and locations around the world.

Go to http://www.pharology.eu/

LOGBOOKS OF THE US LIGHTHOUSES, 1872-1940 from the National Archives is a fun way to introduce students to logbooks as primary sources.

Go to https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/lighthouses.html

ARC courtesy of Harry N. Abrams, an imprint of ABRAMS.½

Too Hot? Too Cold? goes over a wide variety of temperatures for both people and animals and it's a perfect fit for fourth-graders or fifth-graders. It helps them understand how to keep their bodies protected from really hot temperatures and really cold temperatures and how we adapt to those temps also.

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This story brings the reader through the life of a guide dog from birth up until it finds its owner. When Honey was first born, she had to go through many different tests to make sure she was capable of being a guide dog. Once Honey passed the tests, she was given to a little girl named Amy. Amy raised her for 15 months until Honey was ready to begin her training to become a guide dog. Honey went through training with instructors until she was finally ready to help someone. Honey was able to help a lady named Anne. Anne worked with Honey for 4 weeks so that Honey could learn how to help her. Once the 5 weeks were up, it was time for Honey to graduate and start her journey with Anne. I really liked this story because I learned what dogs have to go through when becoming a guide dog.

Join the children in room 6 as they learn firsthand about metamorphosis. Their teacher has brought in butterfly eggs and they will watch and observe the various stages that they go through right in their own classroom.
This book is recommended for readers in grades K-3. The author provides an informational narrative about the metamorphosis of the butterfly from egg to flight. The author provides full color photographs, simple text and reference helps to make this a great book for both early research projects and readers who are interested in learning about butterflies.

The illustrations in this book are photographs just like Dustin’s Big School Day. I found this book full of information. I picked this book because I love dogs and wanted to know about guide dogs. I had no idea they didn’t start formal training until they were 18 months old. This book will be for older students. I think the information in the book is very useful. Children should learn about visually impaired people and guide dogs. I don’t think this is the book to do it though; it’s too long to hold a child’s attention.½

This book is about how humans and animals deal with extreme temperatures. This book details anything from wearing clothing and cold-blooded animal homeostasis to respiration and hibernation. This book is fantastic for learning about key vocabulary. The book introduces many vocabulary terms related to temperature extremes and how creatures deal with them. This book is also written in small blurbs with many supportive pictures, which is helpful because it does not overwhelm struggling or reluctant science readers as much. I would use this in the classroom by including it in a unit about temperature change. I could have it as a book that students can become experts in. I could also read aloud sections from the book each day throughout a unit. I would not read the whole book aloud in one sitting, but partitioning it into sections for different lessons could be very effective.

Little Dude, a young red crested West African mangabey monkey is featured in the 1993 LA Zoo book which features numerous beautiful but mostly uncaptioned photos of his kin group and 1 page spread of other monkeys. Outdated with respect to political names and animal study, it's still a nice picture book.

This book is very informative. There are many facts shared and the reader can learn a lot about reptiles that used to roam the Earth. This book would be suitable for children in 5th grade. The text is very mature and factual, not much fluff or story telling behind it, rather simply listing facts. It uses the scientific names for each reptile which would be very difficult for children but I believe it to be good exposure to science terms as a whole. It goes into why each reptile is named the way it is, "Opthalmosaurus gets its name from its enormous eyes." In the middle of the book it shares a story about a young girl, 12 years old, who found one of the first fossil. Although this book is informative I believe it could've been written in a manor that allowed more age groups to have access to the information being shared. The sentences are fairly long and packed with very detailed information. There are also many paragraphs on each page. This can be overwhelming to the reader. Despite the issues with content the illustrations in this book are amazing. They show the reptiles in great detail and the background covers the entire page. You are able to see them in their natural habitat. This book provides great information with supporting illustrations but I find it hard to read and stay engaged considering the length of each paragraph on the page.

This colorful book offers an excellent, concise introduction to the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic, with attractive, full-color illustrations. The book focuses on ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs, (though placodonts and nothosaurs get some mention as well). The book describes the animals in terms of body form, habitat, diet, time frame of their existence, aspects of their reproduction, and possible reasons for their extinction. As the book notes, ichthyosaurs are known to have given birth to their young. Being published in 2007, the book predates the evidence that this same reproductive mode (viviparity) evolved in plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.

In addition to accounts of these beasts' biology, the book mentions some of the early paleontologists who studied them. Among them is Edward Cope, who mistakenly reconstructed a plesiosaur by mistaking its tail for its neck (an understandable mistake, given the enormous length of each). Another individual featured is Mary Anning, "the fossil girl", who in the early 1800s, collected a number of fossils, including an ichthyosaur now on display at the natural history museum in London.

I found the book informative and accurate, and recommend it to anyone interested in learning about the non-dinosaurian inhabitants of the Mesozoic oceans.

Books that explain the human body are always so intriguing to me . Too Hot? Too Cold? provides the reader with a great array of information about the bodys nervous system. All of the facts in this book are short and are all little tidbits of how bodies control its temperature through sweat, panting, hair , feathers. Great book to include in a science class library.

Summary:
This text is all about body temperature, different ways to regulate it, and how animals keep their body temperature stable during the changing seasons. In each section, the author gives an overview of the scientific term for each function and then provides different examples of animals that use whatever term is being described.

Review:
This book would be a great way to introduce a variety of topics. The author has managed to balance content-specific vocabulary with understandable language and descriptive pictures to make the topic accessible to young readers. One specific way this book could be used is in an upper elementary lesson on human adaptation to their environment since this book looks at the biological ways in which humans adapt to their environment. However, this book could also be used in pairing with lessons on temperature, adaptation, and thermal energy. If one wanted to tie science and literacy together, students could easily use this text to frame an activity in which they compare and contrast different animals and the way they adapt to their environment and process thermal energy.

This book not only covers body temperature in humans but also covers body temperature in insects and animals. The book goes over how humans and animals can keep their bodies warm or cold. As well as what animals and insects are warm or cold blooded and how that connects to the environment they live in. There is also a lot fo information about hibernation and migration and why certain animals do that or not. This book also has a glossary which can be good students that struggle with the bigger words.

This book is really good for teaching kids about the importance of keeping our bodies at the right temperature in different scenarios. The book goes through different animals in their habitats and what they do to stay the right temperature where they are at. It talks about how animals adapt to their surroundings, as well as how it is important for us to adapt to our surroundings with the temperature we are in so we can keep our bodies functioning properly. I think that the comparisons between the animals and humans in this book are easy for children to understand and would be good to help assist a science lesson in the classroom.

As much fairy tale as nonfiction picture book, Taj Mahal is tells the love story behind the creation of one of the world's most recognizable structures. The book focuses on Shah Jahan of the 17th century Mughal dynasty, his abiding love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and his obsessive quest to build the perfect tomb (and monument to their love) after her untimely death. The illustrations by Rahal Bughan beautifully imitate the style of 17th century Indian art, though we don't get to see many of the details of the Taj Mahal so painstakingly described in the text. The back matter includes further information about the Mughal Empire and the construction of the mausoleum, as well as a list of sources. I was surprised there was no glossary considering the many architectural terms used--had to look some of them up!½

Most people imagine dinosaurs as living in tropical, warm areas. But lots of dinosaurs lived in polar regions. This book takes that fact and shows how dinosaurs adapted in certain climates and how the rising planet temperature affected them.

The book has a lot of information, but it gives pronunciation after the dinosaur names, as well as background information of the Mesozoic era. Kids interested in dinosaurs will love this book in all its wonder. This would be a great companion to a lesson on dinosaurs or a lesson on climate change. It's a good introduction to polar paleoclimatology, something I actually never thought of before, and I learned new facts! There is an index at the end, as well as extra sources for those who would like to learn more. As far as I know, this is quite accurate in its information and absolutely awesome.