Carol Reed-Jones

This book is for higher readers and has a lot of bigger vocabulary words though it gives great information along with great illustrations to help students understand the life of a salmon. I would use this book in my class because this is a local animal that is very popular as well as it connects to culture. To Native Americans the salmon is a huge part of their culture which I feel this book can tie to learning about native Americans and some of their traditions and beliefs as well as in the show more science of the life cycle of a salmon. show less

This is a beautiful book that is based on the repetitive pattern found in "This is the House That Jack Built". More information is given at the end of the book regarding each species of plant or animal featured in the book. This book is great to base student formula writing on, maybe with different habitats. Great science content.

This book was basically built on the "house that jack built" model, except that it was about an ancient forest ecosystem. The last page described all the plants and animals that were mentioned in the text and it defines the term ancient forest. It also makes a plea for the protection of the remaining ancient forests in the U.S. and the world. Not a bad book.

First impression: This book is trying to be majestic, beautiful and important (like the ancient forest?).

Beginning with a 300 year old tree, goes through the food chain of a forest in a "there was an old lady who lived in a shoe" kind of way (beautifully and majestically, no silliness here).

Appendix includes:
*Characters in this story (tree, roots, animals, etc.)
*What is an ancient forest? (big trees, dead trees, fallen trees, etc.)
*Why are ancient forests important?

Really thought I was show more going to hate this book. In the end I enjoyed it. show less