Emu chicks

Genevieve Nilsen

Book - 2022

"In Emu Chicks, emergent readers learn what baby emu birds look like and how they live and grow up in the outback. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Emu Chicks includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, an index, and a Let's Review image and question. Emu Chicks is part of Jump!'s Outback Babies series"--

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Published
Minneapolis : Jump! [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Genevieve Nilsen (author)
Item Description
"Tadpole Books are published by Jump!"
Includes index.
Physical Description
16 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
Ages 3-6
ISBN
9781645279433
9781645279440
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Review by Booklist Review

Australia's wispy-feathered emu stars in this offering from the Outback Babies series (6 titles). U.S. children may be unfamiliar with this ostrichlike bird, but here they'll follow a group of chicks that hatch from dark green eggs and eventually grow up and lose their baby stripes. Cute photos fill single- and double-page spreads, showing off the chicks' features and other "Words to Know" (e.g., egg, dad), identified at the book's start. Each spread contains one to two short sentences printed in a large font and set within a blue box; colorful dots label elements in the illustrations. Repetition and formulaic sentences particularly support emerging readers, as do the strong correlations between the words and images. A table of contents and mini-index offer a taste of standard nonfiction text features as well.

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