Does a Seal Smile? (Think About...) - Hardcover

Ziefert, Harriet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1609054490 ISBN 13: 9781609054496

Publisher: Blue Apple Books, 2014

Synopsis

How does a chimp say, Glad to meet you!”?

Does a coyote give a high five?

Who hugs?

The methods and meanings of how humans and animals communicate via facial expressions and body language are examined.

Each title in the twelve-book Think About . . . series opens with a helpful letter to parents and educators explaining ways to use the books with their kids. This title explores body and facial expressions in animals and people. Waves, smiles, frowns, hugs, kisses, handshakes, and common greeting expressions are featured.

About this title

About the Author:

Harriet Ziefert: Harriet Ziefert is the acclaimed author of over 300 books for children. Never having seen one in her husband's medical offices, Ms. Ziefert knows that hippos do not go to the doctor. She also knows about kids and non-fiction, having earned a master's degree in education from New York University. As an educator, Harriet was among the founding pioneers in the development and teaching of what today is known as the Common Core Curriculum. She is also the visionary founder of Blue Apple Books.

Emily Bolam: Emily Bolam studied illustration at England's Brighton College of Art. Her first idea for a children's book began as a college project and was published upon her graduation. Since then, Emily has illustrated over a hundred books for children. In their 20-year collaboration, Emily has sometimes traveled to Blue Apple's New Jersey offices to partner-in-person with Harriet on dozens of entertaining and informative books for kids.

From Booklist:

PreS-Gr. 2. How animal and human creatures greet each other is the subject of the latest easy reader in the Early Experiences series. Although this uses the same question-answer format as Does a Baboon Sleep in a Bed? (2006), the language is more complicated this time ("Coyotes use facial expressions to communicate"). The meaning is, however, still clear, thanks to the colorful pictures, sharply outlined in ink.^B After a double-page spread about chimpanzees and their gestures, the book moves to humans and their greetings--babies learning to smile, kids slapping a high five, and adults greeting one another in cultures across the world, from France to Japan to Saudi Arabia. The elemental animal-human connection is fun, and so are the examples of communication Ehrlich has assembled. Hazel Rochman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Apple Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1609054490
• ISBN 13: 9781609054496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Bolam Emily