Food Chains in a Tide Pool Habitat (The Library of Food Chains and Food Webs)

Nadeau, Isaac

ISBN 10: 0823957616 ISBN 13: 9780823957613

Publisher: Powerkids Pr, 2002

Synopsis

Describes a tide pool and the creatures that live there, discussing the different levels of food chains and how one relies on the other for food.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4-By concentrating on the food chains, Nadeau provides a different focus than that of other titles that may already be on library shelves. Instead of cataloging various plants and animals around a pond or in a tidal pool, he organizes the information to demonstrate the relationships among producers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, and decomposers. Each page of text faces a full page of photographs that include some of the flora and fauna mentioned. Sometimes the arrangement is confusing because two or three pictures are set on a page without much regard to relative sizes of the animals or whether they might be in such close proximity in the actual habitat. A two-page diagram at the end attempts to chart the interrelationships among various creatures, but it, too, is confusing. Some of the suggested Web sites are also odd. For example, one of the two forest choices relates to tropical rain forests even though the book focuses on temperate forests. Two of the pond references concentrate on how to build one while the third contains less information than Nadeau offers. In short, these volumes can fill a niche for reports, but they have limitations.
Kathy Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Powerkids Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0823957616
• ISBN 13: 9780823957613
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24