Latta, Sara. (2006). What Happens in Summer? New Jersey: Enslow Publishers.
Grades: PreK - 3
Type: Picture/Informational
Curriculum Link: Science
Author Credibility: Sara Latta has a degree in Microbiology from the University of Kansas. She recently earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University. At first when she went to college she wanted to be a scientist, but soon decided she would rather write about it. She has written eight books and many articles on different topics in science. On her website, Sara writes that she loves sharing her two favorite things with children of all ages – science and writing.
Awards: 2006 Children’s Choices Award
Summary:
This book explores the season of summer. It begins by briefly discussing the four seasons and showing beautiful full-color photographs of winter, spring, summer, and fall. In a conversational tone, the book explores different questions related to summer – how earth’s tilt makes the weather warm, how summer days help plants grow, what animals, plants, and children do in the summertime. At the end of the book, there is an experiment for kids to do exploring the question if plants need sunlight to grow. This book also lists some excellent websites for kids to explore topics relating to weather and the seasons.
Standards: Unifying Concepts and Processes Standard, Physical Science Standards, and Earth and Space Science Standards
Illustrations: Each section contains a full page photograph and another smaller photo relating to topic, the full-color photographs are beautiful and capture some of the animals and plants of summertime, a kid friendly diagram is also provided to that shows how the earth tilts as it goes around the sun
Access Features: table of contents, headings feature questions that introduce each topic about summer, related books, website information, and index
Classroom Use: This book would be
Response: I liked how this book was divided into questions related to the topic of summer. It was easy to read and follow the information provided. Children would really enjoy this book, because of the big text font used and the incredible photographs of summertime.
Related Texts:
Sunshine Makes the Seasons by Franklyn Branley
Summer: Signs of the Season by Valerie Gerard
It`s Summer! by Linda Glaser
Summer by Darlene Stille
Janice VanCleave`s Science Around the Year by Janice VanCleave
Other Texts from the “I Like the Seasons” Series:
What Happens in the Fall?
What Happens in the Winter?
What Happens in the Spring?
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I believe this would be a great series go get to help students understand the different seasons. I always have children that do not understand how the weather and seasons change these would help out with that.
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