Starters: Mini Beasts

Starters: Mini Beasts

by Lynn Huggins - Cooper (Author)

Synopsis

This highly attractive introduction to a subject of great fascination to young children looks at the amazing variety of minibeasts to be found even in a common garden. Spiders, butterflies and snails are just some of these amazing creatures featured as well as the process of metamorphosis. In a neraly square format, the book is easily handled by children and is clearly and stunningly illustrated with bright colour photographs. It contains contents, a combined glossary and index, and captions to provide experience of the organisational features of non-fiction. It has also been checked by literacy and science consultants.

$36.53

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 24
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 17 Jul 2003

ISBN 10: 0750244194
ISBN 13: 9780750244190

Media Reviews
With a high photographs to text ratio these are easy-access books for young children and as well as being good first reference books, we found them useful to read aloud at home to an information-hungry four-year-old. -- Cork Evening Echo 20030927 Intriguing photographs and some interesting information ... would find a place on the classroom browsing table to extend children's learning and they are also helpful in introducing retrieval devices like contents pages and indexes. -- Books for Keeps 20031101
Author Bio
Lynn Huggins-Cooper is a highly experienced writer of children's non-fiction as well as many educational books. A former teacher herself she frequently contributes to the Times Educational Supplement and lectures on the PGCE course at Newcastle University