Review by Booklist Review
Artfully combining foreground close-ups and cutaways with broader views of children at play in lightly wooded winter landscapes, Zollars supplies soft-lined but accurately detailed illustrations for Glaser's survey of wintering insects. Adding occasional rhymes or near rhymes to give her language a lilt, the author looks at 12 examples, from ants and woolly bear caterpillars to a bald-faced hornet queen with eggs and the nymphs of common pondhawk dragonflies explaining in two to four sentences how each hides away, migrates, or finds shelter underground, underwater, or beneath leaves or tree bark. Though this lacks the now-customary leads to additional resources at the end, a closing section of commentary expands on the earlier texts with well-chosen details, such as the observations that only autumn-born monarchs fly south and that an internal substance called glycerol keeps woolly bears from freezing. An informative foray into the natural world, equally suited for sharing with groups or for giving to recently independent readers.--Peters, John Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-Glaser gives 12 well- and lesser-known examples of how insects survive in adverse winter climates, illustrated by Zollars in brilliantly colorful, full-page paintings. Monarch butterflies migrate to warmer climes while woolly bear caterpillars take a sleeplike refuge "under a blanket of snow or leaves." Ladybugs, bees, mourning cloak butterflies, praying mantises, Common Pondhawk dragonflies, ants, gallflies, field crickets, a bald-faced hornet queen, and black swallowtail butterflies round out the featured creatures as the book shows the many different ways they protect themselves from the cold. The text ends with short informative paragraphs about each insect, accompanied by a larger painting of it. A lovely way to spin science and literature into a curriculum for youngest readers.-Nancy Call, Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Aptos, CA (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
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