Las estaciones del año / Seasons of the Year.
Reviewed by Coop Renner, formerly from El Paso Independent School District, TX -- Críticas, 9/1/2008
Hall, Margaret.
tr. by Martín Luis Guzmán Ferrer. US.: Capstone Press (Patrones en la naturaleza). 2008. 24p. ISBN 978-1-4296-2373-5. $21.27.
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Hibernar / Hibernation.
Hall, Margaret.
tr. by Martín Luis Guzmán Ferrer. US.: Capstone Press (Patrones en la naturaleza). 2008. 24p. ISBN: 978-1-4296-2371-1. $21.27.
Las fases de la luna / Phases of the Moon.
Hall, Margaret.
tr. by Martín Luis Guzmán Ferrer. US.: Capstone Press (Patrones en la naturaleza). 2008. 24p. ISBN 978-1-4296-2372-8. $21.27.
El día y la noche / Day and Night.
Hall, Margaret.
tr. by Martín Luis Guzmán Ferrer. US.: Capstone Press (Patrones en la naturaleza). 2008. 24p. ISBN 978-1-4296-2370-4. $21.27.
PreS-Gr 2–These four titles for young readers introduce basic facets of the natural world in a brief and appealing fashion. Each volume features, on the left-hand pages, three or four sentences in English and Spanish facing appropriate full-page photographs or illustrations to the right. As well as explaining the individual titles’ central themes, the texts also emphasize the series theme–patterns in nature. Hibernation, for example, not only introduces the concept of hibernation, some of its characteristics and some of the animals that hibernate, but also points out how it is an annual phenomenon. The more obvious patterns discussed by the other titles–the cycle of day and night, the cycle of the seasons, and the phases of the moon–are likewise discussed in age-appropriate terms, and all are accompanied by richly colored photographs or, occasionally, simpler explicatory illustrations. Back matter for all titles includes a glossary and index in both languages as well as instructions and an access code for utilizing Internet-based FactHound (including the annotation that sites will not necessarily be written in Spanish). Seasons seems to have a small misprint; while the Spanish text notes that daylight marks the seasons, the English text says that daylight makes the seasons. The Spanish text seems the more accurate version. These lucid introductions are sure to be popular in both school and public libraries, though they may find less of a market in bookstores.
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