Explore Spring!

    By: Maxine Anderson

    Review:
    Explore Spring! is one title in a seasonal series with projects, activities, and experiments written for kids. Its comic-book format offers entry points on many levels. Facts, questions, and explanations pepper each page, accompanied by upbeat, goofy illustrations by Alexis Frederick-Frost. Trivia, jokes, and riddles are also included in these guides for six- to nine-year-olds. Sprouting seeds, fledging birds, and lengthening days are featured. Why do we have seasons? How do eggs turn into frogs? How do plants grow? Lots of fun activities are included. This would be a good resource for teachers to accompany other more thorough resources for springtime phenomena.

    Other Information:
    Explore Spring! Nomad Press, 2007. 92 pages. http://www.nomadpress.net.

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