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Hidden Wildlife: How Animals Hide in Plain Sight

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Hidden Wildlife: How Animals Hide in Plain Sight

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Now you see them; now you don’t: through beautiful illustrations, including five gorgeous gatefolds, an acclaimed nature writer teaches kids all about camouflage.
Animals know that in order to survive, they must stay hidden—and, fortunately, nature helps them by providing coloration that camouflages them in their habitat. Award-winning author and illustrator Jim Arnosky looks at this most artful and beautiful aspect of animal life, from the dappled spots on a fawn and the leaf-like markings on a Copperhead snake to the white fur of the snowshoe hare in winter and the changing colors of the octopus. Featuring five large gatefolds, this stunning book covers a wide variety of mammals, birds, insects, and sea creatures, and also offers kids advice on becoming better at spying animals out in the wild.

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ISBN-13:	9781454920977
Publisher:	Sterling Children's Books
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	136,326
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	NC1150L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Jim Arnosky is the author/illustrator of more than 100 books for young readers, and has been honored for his overall contribution to literature for children. He received the first lifetime achievement award for Excellence in Science Illustration from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for nonfiction. His first book for Sterling, Wild Tracks, was a 2008 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a 2009 ALA Notable. His gatefold books for Sterling have earned starred reviews, and Thunder Birds was included on the Bluebonnet Master List for the state of TX. Jim and his wife, Deanna, travel all over the US for school and library visits, meeting hundreds of kids every year. Visit jimarnosky.com to learn more. He lives in South Ryegate, VT.

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10/01/2017
Gr 1–4—Arnosky adds to his acclaimed oeuvre with this title on animal camouflage. The work features striking paintings that demonstrate how predators and prey use their abilities to blend into their surroundings. Foldout pages create panoramas that illustrate topics such as birds' feather patterns and snakes' colors and shapes that help them "disappear" into their habitats. The conversational text combines personal accounts of where Arnosky encountered various animals with basic scientific information about how camouflage works with mammals, insects, birds, aquatic life, and reptiles. He encourages readers to prop the book open to view his paintings from a distance—a perfect suggestion for educators using this title in a classroom or small group setting—so readers can appreciate the effectiveness of featured camouflage techniques. This volume joins the author's other titles, such as Shimmer & Splash: The Sparkling World of Sea Life and Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators in opening readers' eyes to the wonders of the natural world. Older kids wanting to learn more about the science behind camouflage and mimicry might also consult Rebecca L. Johnson's Masters of Disguise: Amazing Animal Tricksters. VERDICT Blending personal observation and scientific fact, this richly illustrated introduction to camouflage deserves a spot in most libraries.—Kathy Piehl, Minnesota State University Library, Mankato

School Library Journal

2017-08-02
Animals' shapes, coloring, and behaviors allow them to conceal and reveal themselves.Arnosky uses his considerable artistic talents to demonstrate how animal camouflage works using examples from across the animal kingdom and throughout the year. Acrylic paintings (including foldout spreads) and occasional pencil studies show animals in their natural habitats, where colors, patterns, and the play of light work to allow them to seem to vanish. He suggests looking at these paintings from across the room to see how a Florida panther can vanish in the grass or a moose into a forest. He uses familiar examples such as a spotted fawn on a forest floor or a female blackbird in the reeds as well as surprising ones: a bittern stretched tall like the grasses around it; a scorpion fish blending in color and texture with its perch on a mound of coral. He discusses the role of the countershading—dark above and light below—so often found in birds and marine animals. Pencil drawings show how some insect shapes mimic parts of plants and how a fawn's spots will disappear over time. Loosely organized into chapters with short introductions, his examples are captioned with short explanatory paragraphs. Most come from his own observations and experiences over many years of exploring and researching the natural world. Read aloud or alone, this will heighten anyone's appreciation for "Nature…the ultimate artist." (author's note, further reading) (Informational picture book. 4-10)

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