Animals Hibernating
How Animals Survive Extreme Conditions
- Publisher
- Kids Can Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2005
- Category
- General, Bears
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553376637
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $12.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781553376620
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $14.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 7 to 11
- Grade: 2 to 6
- Reading age: 7 to 11
Description
In this title in the Animal Behavior series, kids will find out which animals hibernate and why, the difference between true hibernators and deep sleepers, where animals hibernate, what happens while they hibernate, and much more. Whether to avoid extreme weather, conserve energy or survive on meager resources, animals hibernate in some unexpected ways. Packed with illustrations, facts, activities and easy-to-do experiments, Animals Hibernating is an innovative approach to understanding animal life.
About the authors
PAMELA HICKMAN is the author of over forty non-fiction books for children, including winners of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, the Best Book Award from the Society of School Librarians International and the Canadian Authors Association Lilla Sterling Memorial Award. She co-authored the first book in this series, Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War. She lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.
Pat Stephens is the illustrator of many books for children. Her art appears in the Animal Behavior series and the Kids Can Press Wildlife Series. Pat lives in Durham, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
[E]ngaging clarity... plenty of visual appeal.
[I]nformative, well-paced text, appealing illustrations of migrators and hibernators.
Librarian Reviews
Animals Hibernating: How Animals Survive Extreme Conditions (Animal Behavior)
Animals hibernate in amazing ways. Kids will discover how bats slow their heartbeat to survive, how a frog’s blood keeps it from freezing to death and more.Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Canadian Children’s Book News. 2006.
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