Overview

Full Product Details

9781628555523

Table of Contents

Reviews

As I read this book, I immediately thought of how much fun it would be to have a young audience and share the joy of the natural world! - NSTA Recommends

Holland takes care to identify the 12 animals she photographs, while introducing pertinent vocabulary (molars, prey) and some enticing trivia (robber flies -use their piercing-sucking mouthparts to drink the insides of their prey-) - Publishers Weekly This book is excellent as a teaching tool and is highly recommended for classroom and school libraries. - Literary Classics As I read this book, I immediately thought of how much fun it would be to have a young audience and share the joy of the natural world! - NSTA Recommends

Author Information

Mary Holland is a naturalist, nature photographer, columnist, and award-winning author with a life-long passion for natural history. After graduating from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources, Mary worked as a naturalist at the Museum of the Hudson Highlands in New York state, directed the state-wide Environmental Learning for the Future program for the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, worked as a resource naturalist for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and designed and presented her own -Knee-High Nature Programs- for libraries and elementary schools throughout Vermont and New Hampshire. In addition to Animal Legs, Animal Mouths, and Animal Eyes her children's books include Otis the Owl, A Beaver's Busy Year and Ferdinand Fox's First Summer (NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books, Moonbeam Bronze award) with Arbordale and Milkweed Visitors, (Science Books and Films' list for the best books of 2006 in the category Children's Books under Zoological Sciences). Mary's book Naturally Curious: a Photographic Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods and Marshes of New England won the 2011 National Outdoor Book Award for the Nature Guidebook category. Mary lives in Vermont with her lab, Emma. Visit Mary's blog Naturally Curious with Mary Holland

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available