Ants (Denver Museum Insect Books) - Hardcover

Hodge, Deborah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155337066X ISBN 13: 9781553370666

Publisher: Kids Can Press, 2004

Synopsis

In this book in the Denver Museum Insect Books series, kids find out how a colony of ants works together, learn about the ant life cycle and ant bodies, experiment with their sense of smell to see how ants find food, and build an ant nest out of modeling clay.

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About the Author

Deborah Hodge is a former educational consultant and curriculum designer and the author of the Kids Can Press Wildlife series. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Julian Mulock is the illustrator of numerous books for young readers. He started life as a scientific illustrator at the Royal Ontario Museum and specializes in wild life themes. He lives and works in Toronto.

From Booklist

Reviewed with Deborah Hodge's Bees.

Gr. 1-3. New books in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science series do a good job of combining age-appropriate projects to reinforce learning with just plain facts. These volumes, useful to youngsters fascinated by insects as well as to those studying them in the classroom, will pump up the curiosity level. Full-color close-ups of ants and bees in their natural habitats (slightly better in Bees than ants) and scientific drawings, all well labeled, bring kids literally face-to-face with bugs. The text, delivered in small bites mostly scattered across the pages and usually accompanied by spot art, is direct, one idea per paragraph. It briefly describes physical characteristics, social structure, behavior, and the growth cycle. Hodge also neatly works in odd bits of fact and gives stellar explanations of unfamilar subject-specific terms (pollen is "flower dust"). A few lines of text relate each project (there are three in each book) to the main discussion. A great way to bring a bit of the outdoors inside. Stephanie Zvirin
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 155337066X
• ISBN 13: 9781553370666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Mulock Julian