Soar to Success: Soar to Success Student Book Level 4 Wk 19 Slap, Squeak, and Scatter

by Steve Jenkins

Book Overview

A beaver slaps its tail on the water to warn other beavers of approaching danger. A mother bat returning to the cave can locate her baby among two or three million other bats by using a special cry.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618932887
• ISBN13: 9780618932887
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4

Customer Reviews

These Animals Have a Lot to Say

Steve Jenkins' creatively opens the door to animal communication in this delightful book for younger readers. He captures children's imaginations with both his art and his imagination. Readers familiar with Steve Jenkins have come to expect incredible paper collages that are so realistic you expect to feel feathers, fur, and reptilian skin. We also expect fascinating glimpses into the subject, in this case how 23 distinctly different animals communicate and suggestions into their messages. Did you know that beavers thump out warnings with their tales and that these warnings can be heard as far as a half mile? Mother bats returning from a night of hunting insects have unique sounds that prove useful for locating their babies in the huge bat nursery. Animals warn of dangers but they also inform about sources of food or keeping close tabs on their children. Some of the animals fit on one page while some, the humpback whale, stretch across two pages. I found the book delightful and appropriate for children 4 to 7 years old. All readers, young and old, will have to touch, and many will have to try and create some of their own communications. Some will have to perform their own waggle dance.