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Two young girls enjoy playing and exploring in the nearby pond where they discover tadpoles, insects, wildflowers in the summer, and a place to ice skate in the winter
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This elegy to algae will tantalize even the finicky with its playful presentation of creative pond-slumming. Two six-year-olds-Carole and the unnamed narrator-kick off a year of pond games in April: still wearing mittens, they fashion miniature rafts from twigs with leaves for sails. As temperatures rise, scum spreads and thickens over the water; the girls then wade thigh-high and emerge with elegant "mud silk" stockings. After gathering frogs'-egg jelly, the "scum chums" watch as tadpoles form. Later they construct luge-style mudslides for racing crawdads; examine the "secret" ladyslippers, salamanders, damselfly wings, etc.; and, finally, see their reflections in November's clear black ice. Laced with informative facts and brimming with Bostock's (Think of an Eel) at once exuberant and delicate watercolors, this book is both a comical salute to friendship and a field guide. Ages 4-up.
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Ages 5^-8. A little girl tells how she and her best friend explore the pond behind her house. Beginning in April, she explains how they get to know the pond throughout the year: wading in it, playing with salamanders, watching eggs hatch into tadpoles that grow into frogs, scooping up mud and scum, observing wildflowers and insects, waiting for muskrats to appear, and skating on its winter ice. Sunlit watercolor illustrations record the natural processes of pond life as well as the warm friendship of the two young girls who are "pond buddies, scum chums--forever." An unusually appealing introduction to pond life, this book will be particularly welcome in the many primary-grade classrooms where frog hatching is a spring feature. Carolyn Phelan
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- PublisherCandlewick
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0763601128
- ISBN 13 9780763601126
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorBostock Mike
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