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Who Needs a Desert?: A Desert Ecosystem (Ecosystem Series) (edição 2014)

por Karen Patkau (Autor)

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The Ecosystem Series explores jungle, icebergs, swamps, deserts, prairies and reefs. In Who Needs A Desert? Karen Patkau takes readers on an amazing voyage of discovery to find out how deserts are formed and where in the world they are most often found. Not only this, but readers will discover how plants and animals adapt to the severe environment, what wildlife thrives there, which plants bloom under the blazing sun and how desert plants and animals get energy and food.… (mais)
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Título:Who Needs a Desert?: A Desert Ecosystem (Ecosystem Series)
Autores:Karen Patkau (Autor)
Informação:Tundra Books (2014), 32 pages
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Avaliação:****
Etiquetas:ecosystem, deserts, plants, animals, seasons, food chain, life cycle

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Who Needs a Desert?: A Desert Ecosystem (Ecosystem Series) por Karen Patkau

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Beautifully illustrated, this book indicates how deserts are formed, where they are formed, and how plants and animals survive. It also talks about the food chain and life cycle. As the population increases and people move into desert areas, so does demand for water increases. Dry, barren ground can result from overuse by humans. The book introduces children to plants and animals living in the desert. This book is fascinating to read and learn how animals and plants survive in such harsh climates, and temperate that change from day to night. I found the book to be informative and useful for any age (teacher will most likely read to younger students). My favorite part is the glossary with pictures found at the back of the book. ( )
  MMennealy | May 22, 2019 |
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Usually when books involve the ecosystem, nature or non-fiction animals they can be hard to read for younger audiences since so many are either scientifically dry or badly organized. This beautiful book was well-organized, kept simple and given beautiful illustrations thus it will fascinate children of every age while also teaching them.

First of all the artwork is just beautiful, detailed and full of colors whether it is covering the day, the evening or the night. The animals that are included are realistic in some senses while the plants and landscape come beautifully to life in their own dimension. Plus with each mentioned animal being shown in the picture there is no need to wonder what the author is talking about.

The author did a great job in keeping the writing of the book simple and easy to understand for young readers although for some of the possibly harder words there is a Glossary to be found in the back. Even when the author moves topics she puts the change of the topic at the beginning of each page in bold big letters while then flowing back into the story of the desert life.

Scattered throughout the book are small diagrams to showcase a point or a small scientific section such as "How Desert Soil Forms" And then the book ends in "Who Needs A Desert?". The author takes these two pages to describe the problems that affect the deserts, gives a map of known deserts (Antarctica isn't included) and then gives the reason why we all need them - both desert life as well as humans.

Finally the last and beautiful finishing touch for me was More Information section. All the animals and plants that were viewed within the book have a picture taken from with the previous pages while are given a sentence or two detailing about another fun fact.

If I get another chance I would definitely like to get the other books within the series and see if they match up.

**Received this book as part of the Early Reviewers at Librarything.com for free in exchange for a review** ( )
  flamingrosedrakon | Aug 26, 2015 |
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Good book to have in a classroom library for students to start their research about an ecosystem. Easy to read, illustrations are good and creates a good starting point for kids learn about an ecosystem. ( )
  rsrwilhelm | May 22, 2015 |
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Although this book had good information about desert ecosystems, it is not something that I would pick as a first choice in my classroom. It would be something that I would use to supplement other books when students are doing research. The illustrations are nice, but not appropriate for a nonfiction text. I would prefer photographs or more realistic looking illustrations for accuracy purposes. I would also like pronunciation guides to help students with the proper way of saying some of the more complex terms in the book. ( )
  welburr | Mar 29, 2015 |
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My seven-year-old daughter is very interested in nature and how things work and so I was excited to see I had received the opportunity to review this book with her, especially since she is within the age recommendation which is 7 - 10 years of age. The book is written in a way that uses proper words to explain yet is simple enough for younger readers. My daughter was able to read the book almost entirely by herself, only needing help on a few larger words. Each page has an image or diagram to accompany the text that helps readers who may learn better by seeing rather than just reading. The book kept my daughter engaged and inspired several questions so it provided a great learning opportunity. After finishing the book, she even asked if she could take the book with her to school to read to her class. This is the only book that I've read in Karen Patkau's Ecosystem Series so far but I will be getting the others for my daughter to read. Certainly a series that would make a wonderful addition to all libraries. My only issue with the book (and the reason I wanted to provide a 4 star rating though my daughter insisted I must give it a 5) is that I wish the images had been real photographs rather than digitally rendered art. The images give a good idea but lack the vibrant realness that deserts have because although they may seem like harsh areas, they are home to beautiful plants, animals, and scenery. ( )
  JaidisShaw | Dec 8, 2014 |
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The Ecosystem Series explores jungle, icebergs, swamps, deserts, prairies and reefs. In Who Needs A Desert? Karen Patkau takes readers on an amazing voyage of discovery to find out how deserts are formed and where in the world they are most often found. Not only this, but readers will discover how plants and animals adapt to the severe environment, what wildlife thrives there, which plants bloom under the blazing sun and how desert plants and animals get energy and food.

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