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Why Is It Summer?
This book explains why we have seasons and when summer begins. It also suggests summer activities that people do as well as what animals may do during this season. There is an easy experiment relating to summer included in the back of the book. Author Sara L. Latta creates a fun learning environment about science for emerging readers.
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With glossaries at the beginning, simple narratives, and plenty of color photos of nature and children at play, this series distinguishes itself from similar sets. In each volume, a diagram explains the Earth's rotation and tilt and how that creates the seasons. The titles then go on to explain how different seasons affect animal behaviors, the rudiments of plant photosynthesis, and other salient aspects of the natural world. Words of interest are highlighted throughout and defined in the glossaries, and diagrams clarify weightier concepts. The photos, though kid-pleasing, are sporadically captioned and sometimes only vaguely relevant to the texts. Experiments at the end guarantee reader engagement. Spring, for example, invites students to measure their shadows over the course of a day., School Library Journal April 2012
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