One Little Penguin and His Friends

One Little Penguin and His Friends, illustrated by Claudine Gervy, lets your child push and turn durable board book slides to answer questions about various Arctic animals.  The answers pop or slide up in a counting pattern to reveal the answers.  The simply drawn animals are fun to view as children have fun interacting with the book to find the animals.  This book is a great tool to introduce facts about Arctic animals.  We’ve found this book to be very durable through the years with lots of pushing and turning the slides.  We think your children will enjoy this book too!

Question Collection:

*Which animal is your favorite?

*Which animals have you seen?

*What’s the funniest part of the book to you?

Polar Lands

Polar Lands, by Margaret Hynes, is a good choice to introduce more nonfiction in your young child’s library. Children can learn more about the polar lands and the animals who inhabit it.  The animal photographs enhance the text and encourage discussion.  Vocabulary words at the bottom of each page can be used to further language development.  It’s fun for beginning readers to find the vocabulary words in the text above the definition.  We also enjoyed the maps at the beginning.  This is a book that we enjoy reading and viewing for more information.  We hope you enjoy it!

Question Collection:

*Where is the Arctic region? Antarctica?

*Why do some polar animals migrate?

*What are three new words you learned?

Animal Babies in Polar Lands

We have lots of fictional books about snow, snowmen, and snow animals.  One of our reading goals is to include more nonfiction.  Animal Babies in Polar Lands, by Jennifer Schofield, is a delightful book that introduces children to learning more about polar animals. 

The first page about each animal presents a close-up photograph of a baby animal with information about the animal and closes with a question about the mommy’s identity.  The next pages show the baby animal with its mother and give the baby’s name (such as pup, chick, etc.).  The superb photographs along with the factual information make this a great book to introduce nonfiction to your reading time with your children.  We re-read this book often because it’s so enjoyable.  We hope you learn from it too!

Question Collection:

*Which animal is your favorite?

*Which animal looks most like its mommy? 

*Which animal looks least like its mommy?

*Can you remember the names of the baby animals?