Books in Looking at Nature series

This book is intended for ages 4 to 7 years. This introductory book uses close up images of plants, animals, and people to help children compare the relative sizes and weights of natural objects. Is it big or small? promotes the learning of these concepts in a natural way. Through brilliant visuals, children will be motivated to find and compare natural objects in size, weight, and volume and learn the appropriate words to describe these properties.

This book is suitable for ages 4 to 7 years. Almost every shape can be found in nature! The sun, moon, and Earth are circles and spheres. The wings of butterflies contain triangles, the cells of honeybees are hexagons, and the hood of the hooded mantis has a diamond shape. This book explains both flat shapes and 3-D shapes and shows amazing examples of them all.

This book is intended for ages 4 to 7 years. Texture is how something feels. Nature is full of things with surfaces and coverings that we can see and touch. How does a snake's skin feel? How is it different from the bark of a tree? This engaging book features close-up photographs of different textures found on plants and animals. Children can compare these textures to the textures of familiar objects found in their homes or classrooms.

This book is suitable for ages 4 to 7 years. Grouping and classification are among the first math and science skills that children need to learn. This fun book will challenge children to observe natural creatures to see what makes them the same and different. It presents a much more interesting way of looking at objects because the objects may not be exactly the same. For example, birds have two wings, but the wings of different birds may not look similar.

This book is intended for ages 4 to 7 years. Nature is full of patterns. Patterns are made up of shapes such as spots, stripes, circles, triangles, and combinations of these. Colours play a big part in patterns as well. Bobbie Kalman's book helps explain how some patterns help camouflage animals or scare predators away, and how certain patterns seem to appear everywhere in nature! For example, spirals can be seen in the formation of flower petals, the construction of many seashells, in ocean waves, and in hurricanes.

This book is intended for ages 4 to 7 years. In this entertaining book, Bobbie Kalman shows examples in nature that correspond with each colour in the rainbow. There are also examples of colour opposites such as white and black. Children will also enjoy learning how to combine certain colours to make new colours such as pink, brown, green, and orange.

This book is suitable for ages 4 to 7 years. This simple book uses wonderfully appealing images in nature to teach children about location, orientation, and the relative position of objects. These early concepts include left and right; on, under, above, and over; between and in the middle of: far, near, and beside; inside and outside; around, across, and through; and many more position and location words.

This book is suitable for ages 4 to 7 years. Some patterns are visual; other patterns are events that repeat at a certain time or in certain places. Children will learn about patterns that are predictable events such as day and night, seasons, and weather. They will also be delighted to discover that bees dance and birds migrate using certain patterns, and that many other patterns also occur in behaviour. This book will promote observation, interpretation, and estimation skills in even the youngest readers.