All Around the Pond (one book in the Animals in Natural Habitats series) is a perfect non-fiction picture book for young children. The sing song-y rhyme makes it playful, yet educational. Rhyme, context clues and preposition (position word) clues lead children to infer animals they might find around the pond; making this a fun and interactive reading. For example:
All around the pond
lounging on a lily pad
I spy a ...
Life really isn't so bad
(Can you guess what might be lounging on a lily pad?)
Imagine strolling around the pond and finding frogs, beavers, fish, dragonflies. mosquitoes, ducks and snapping turtles.
What else might you find?
This book and other books in this series are perfect for:
- parents and grandparents
- nature lovers
- early childhood educators and pre-K teachers who teach science units about animals in different habitats
- early readers
- any child who loves picture books, animals and loves to be read to.
Here's what you'll find in each book in this series:
- rhyme
- repetitive text
- colorful illustrations
- prepositional words bolded in contrasting color
- opportunity to be interactive by using clues and prior knowledge to guess or infer animals they may find.
- a final "I spy" page where children can discover other animals found in that habitat.