Under the Snow

by Melissa Stewart, Constance R. Bergum (Illustrator)

Overview

A cozy look at the amazing ways animals behave and interact with their environments on a snowy day.

When snow falls, we go home where it is warm and safe. But what about all those animals out there in the forests and fields? What do they do when snow blankets the ground?

Award-winning science writer Melissa Stewart offers a lyrical tour of a variety of habitats, providing young readers with vivid glimpses of animals as they live out the winter beneath the snow and ice. Constance R. Bergum's glowing watercolors perfectly capture the wonder and magic that can happen under the snow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682631256
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	10/01/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	AD640L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Melissa Stewart has written more than 180 science books for children. Her books have won numerous honors, including CCBC Choices, Bank Street Best Children's Books, NSTA Recommends, Green Earth Book, and Parents' Choice Recommended awards. She offers live and virtual school visits as well as programs for educators.

Constance R. Bergum grew up in Montana and received an MFA in illustration from Marywood University. After a career as a graphic designer, she began illustrating children's books. She lives in Montana.

Editorial Reviews

"This beautiful picture book will compliment the science curriculum and also makes for a great read aloud."—Booklist

"This pleasing addition is a great read-aloud for units on winter and animal habitats."—School Library Journal

"Readers will come away with an appreciation for the adaptability and endurance of the animal world."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

K-Gr 2—Stewart takes readers on an informative journey, describing how snakes, voles, spotted salamanders, carp, beavers, and red-spotted newts, among other animals, "spend their days" during the winter months. Fascinating facts—a wood frog can freeze solid on the forest floor and survive—make the spare text intriguing and fun. Beautiful paintings in muted watercolors convey the creatures in their habitats and the quiet of the season. This pleasing addition is a great read-aloud for units on winter and animal habitats.—Michele Sealander, Hamburg School, NJ

School Library Journal

A snow-covered countryside may look barren of life, but Stewart's quiet text takes readers under the blanket of white to "a hidden world" where ladybugs sleep en masse and voles tunnel from tree to tree, where a wood frog freezes safely solid and bluegills and waterboatmen share frigid waters, where a turtle lies buried in mud and "even on the coldest winter days, red-spotted newts dodge and dart, whiz and whirl just below the ice." Bergum's equally quiet watercolors spread across the pages in panels that offer cross-sections and magnified details to give readers glimpses of the world beneath the snow. Their precision lends a dignity and beauty even to a sleeping centipede and a barbeled carp. Readers will come away with an appreciation for the adaptability and endurance of the animal world. (Informational picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews