Tell Me, Tree: All about Trees for Kids - Hardcover

Gibbons, Gail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316309036 ISBN 13: 9780316309035

Verlag: LITTLE BROWN & CO, 2002

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<b>Learn all about trees, leaves, and their inner workings in this colorful, favorite picture book by award-winning nonfiction author and illustrator Gail Gibbons.</b><br><br>Trees shelter and surround us. Their leaves offer shade from the hot summer sun. In autumn, they dazzle us with color. In winter, they stand tall against a cold and snowy background. Trees may look solitary, but each one is teeming with life.<br><br><i>Tell Me, Tree </i>is a child&#39;s guide to the wide variety of trees that surround us, including how to identify them the structure of trees, with cut-away illustrations and labels. The book also includes an explanation of photosynthesis and a special section on how to make a tree identification book of your own. <i>Tell Me, Tree</i>, is the perfect read for Earth Day and Arbor Day, and for nature-lovers year-round.<br><br><b>&#34;In this simple, informative book, Gibbons provides a basic guide that is sure to please parents and teachers as well as children.&#34; -- <i>Booklist</i></b><br><br><b>Don&#39;t miss these other favorite nonfiction books by Gail Gibbons:<br><i>Knights in Shining Armor<br>Cowboys and Cowgirls<br>Recycle</i></b>

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<b>Gail Gibbons</b> has written more than 140 books and has been called a &#34;master of picture book nonfiction&#34; by&#160;<i>Booklist.&#160;</i>The&#160;<i>Washington Post&#160;</i>has said &#34;Gail Gibbons has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children&#39;s writer-illustrator.&#34; In recognition of her &#34;distinguished contribution to children&#39;s literature,&#34; Gail was awarded the Regina Medal Award. She is also the recipient of the Children&#39;s Book Guild of Washington, DC Nonfiction Book Award. Gail&#39;s informational books cover a vast range of topics and have received innumerable awards and honors that range from American Library Association Notable Children&#39;s Books to National Science Teachers Association - Children&#39;s Book Council Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children to International Reading Association - Children&#39;s Book Council (IRA-CBC) Children&#39;s Choice Books, beloved by young readers across the country. She divides her time between Vermont and Matinicus Island, Maine.

Gail Gibbons has written and illustrated more than one hundred informational books for children, including Recycle!: A Handbook for Kids, Knights in Shining Armor, and Cowboys and Cowgirls: Yippie-Yay! A talented writer who turns fact into entertainment, she has traveled across the country to research topics as diverse as deep-sea submersibles, the Old West, and more. Gail Gibbons divides her time between a cottage on Matinicus Island off the coast of Maine and a farmhouse in Vermont surrounded by sugar maple trees.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: LITTLE BROWN & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0316309036
• ISBN 13: 9780316309035
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar