From the series Find It in Nature!
Animal Tracks
Reading Level KindergartenInterest Level Grades K – 3Copyright 2024
Reviewed
From the series Find It in Nature!
Reading Level KindergartenInterest Level Grades K – 3Copyright 2024
ReviewedIn Animal Tracks, beginning readers will learn to identify different forest animal tracks. Carefully leveled text provides defining details for each animal’s tracks, while accompanying photos show both the tracks and the animal feet or bodies that left them.
A comprehensive back matter feature quizzes readers, asking them to match each set of tracks with its animal owner. Children can learn more about forest animals and tracks online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Animal Tracks also features reading tips for teachers and parents, photo labels, a picture glossary, a table of contents, and an index.
Animal Tracks is part of Jump!’s Find It in Nature! series.
Well-chosen photos and simple descriptions introduce nature identification at its most basic level. Spreads offer one or two facts that identify key features of the organism. In Trees, a large photo of the tree is paired with a close-up view of its leaves, needles, or bark, while the text highlights key features, such as the five points of a maple leaf or the birch’s white bark. Most of the narrative addresses physical characteristics that will aid identification. A closing spread includes a brief picture glossary and a useful review page where readers are challenged to match the item to a spot illustration. Nature enthusiasts will require more information as they get older, but these books introduce the beginning components of identification in an appealing presentation that is just right for the youngest learners. VERDICT Appealing and practical nonfiction for emerging readers.–Steven Engelfried
School Library Journal
