Salmon Stream

by Carol Reed-Jones

Book Overview

A poetic yet scientifically accurate description of the life cycle of a salmon. This book will inspire children in classrooms and at home to appreciate the world around us!

Fast-paced prose and brilliant illustrations follow the salmon from their form as eggs in a stream to the wide ocean, eventually making a hazardous journey home to their stream of origin. Carol Reed-Jones uses cumulative verse, a literary technique that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584690135
• ISBN13: 9781584690139
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA)
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 10.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 6 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 7

Customer Reviews

It was ver good!

I think this book is good, talks many things about salmon, but if the book have more things about salmon it will be better.

i like it

This book contains some beautiful artwork. Lots for the little ones to look at while you read.

Leaping and circling

Once again the circle of life is completed by the salmon of the pacific northwest. This is a cumulative story about the journey of the salmon from natal stream to ocean and back again. Parents nourish children who leave home to return to nourish their children.Pictures a deeply colored and beautifully detailed. Would probably work best with slightly older children rather than younger. Would make an excellent classroom discussion book.

Scientific Poetry / Poetic Science

This story of the salmon life cycle is written in cumulative verse, like "The House That Jack Built." Starting from "This is the stream in the forest," the verses accumulate information as the eggs hatch into alevin and fry, while maintaining the lyrical flow of that stream. Then the smolt travel downstream to "an estuary wide" and the turbulent ocean. When the salmon receive the instinctual message to return home to spawn, the poetry of their journey is reversed: "... up the river with the tide, past the estuary wide ... obeying the voice of instinct's call, they leap a ten foot waterfall, to reach the place where they were born, bruised from the journey, weary and worn."Again they arrive in the peaceful shady pool "filled with water, clear and cool, that flows in the stream in the forest." What a perfect way to demonstrate this cycle of life!Illustrations saturate the pages with color. You'll feel wet from the flow of the cool stream, the splash of the waterfalls! Endpapers and an appendix add even more scientific information, as well as contacts and ideas for citizen conservation efforts.