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Susan Canizares

Author of What Do Insects Do?

102 Works 20,417 Members 110 Reviews

About the Author

Susan Canizares was born in 1960. She earned a master's degree in special education, specializing in early childhood, from New York University. She then went on to acquire a Ph.D. in language and literacy development from Fordham University. She has written numerous nonfiction books for young show more children, as well as professional articles for teachers and parents. Her books include Rainforest Colors, Supermarket, Polar Bears, Wheels, Who Lives in a Tree?, Busy Beavers, Frogs, and Animal Pack. She, along with Dr. Susan B. Neuman and Dr. Catherine Snow, authored Scholastic's Building Language for Literacy program. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Series

Works by Susan Canizares

What Do Insects Do? (1998) 878 copies
Butterfly (1961) 696 copies
Where Do Insects Live? (1998) 695 copies
Wind (1998) 564 copies
What is an Insect? (1998) 561 copies
Monkeys (1998) 550 copies
Who Lives In A Tree? (1998) 473 copies
Coral Reef (1980) 465 copies
Polar Bears (1998) 459 copies
Spider Names (1998) 422 copies
In Our Country (1998) 421 copies
Storms (Emergent Readers) (1991) 401 copies
Who Lives in the Rainforest? (1997) 400 copies
Busy Beavers (1998) 376 copies
Frogs (1998) 374 copies
From Egg To Robin (1998) 349 copies
Sun (1998) 335 copies
Nests, Nests, Nests (1998) 284 copies
Arctic Winter, Arctic Summer (1998) 276 copies
Jobs (1998) 266 copies
This Bird Can't Fly (1998) 262 copies
Feelings (1999) — Author — 256 copies
Red, White and Blue (1999) 251 copies
Birds (1998) 247 copies
Mexico (1998) 233 copies
Canada (1999) 227 copies
Look at This Tree (1998) 226 copies
Wheels (1999) 214 copies
Bridges (1881) 213 copies
Italy (1872) 205 copies
Colors In The Desert (1998) 195 copies
Two Can Do It! (1998) 177 copies
The Voyage of Mae Jemison (1999) 172 copies
Babies (1998) 163 copies
In the Kitchen (1950) 153 copies
All Kinds of Books (1998) 139 copies
Where Does It Park? (Scholastic My First Library) (1999) — Author — 138 copies
Babies on the Move (1998) 112 copies
Cactus Names (1998) 103 copies
Pele (1999) 102 copies
First Aid (1998) 101 copies
Building Shapes (1999) 100 copies
In a Painting (1998) 83 copies
Store (Place Book) (2000) 78 copies
Airport (1999) 75 copies
Supermarket (2000) 73 copies
Museum (2000) 71 copies
Animal Sculpture (1999) 63 copies
Meet Jim Henson (1999) 59 copies
Numbers (Emergent Readers) (1998) 52 copies
Firehouse (2000) 37 copies
Construction Site (2000) 27 copies
Primeros Quxilios (2002) 3 copies
Weather (2001) 3 copies
We Need the Sun (2013) 2 copies
Pet Care 1 copy

Tagged

animals (686) Arctic (114) art (70) big book (57) birds (213) bugs (184) butterflies (97) children (71) colors (202) community (79) community helpers (64) easy reader (116) emergent readers (86) feelings (58) food (57) frogs (71) geography (91) habitats (235) insects (488) Level B (60) nature (263) non-fiction (1,005) ocean (172) photographs (77) picture book (168) plants (100) rainforest (155) scholastic (small dark blue bin) (60) science (1,416) Science Emergent Readers (90) seasons (77) social studies (208) space (65) spiders (67) transportation (105) trees (122) water (95) weather (312) wind (76) winter (75)

Common Knowledge

Gender
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Reviews

Thanks to this book, I now know about the rainforest AND colo(u)rs!
 
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GVIP_Library | 1 other review | Sep 14, 2023 |
#1543 in our old book database.

It seems like a straightforward topic for an educational book for toddlers, but it was frustrating to realize how hard it is to guess the answer before turning the page because most times there are multiple acceptable answers that are ignored for the arbitrary one the author has selected.

For instance we're told a car parks "In a garage." This ignores people who don't have a garage at their home and might use public parking garages, parking lots, parking spaces on streets, etc. It also ignores the many places a person may park their car during a day of work or errands.

And just when I think maybe the author is ignoring places where vehicles may only be parked for short periods of time -- like school buses don't park at schools because they spend the night in bus yards -- we are presented with semis parked at truck stops, which are just big gas stations essentially, not the fleet centers of the corporate owners or the residences of independent owner/operators.

Seems like you'd spend a lot of time having to correct or expand on this book with any child you read it to.
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villemezbrown | 3 other reviews | Jan 3, 2023 |

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Statistics

Works
102
Members
20,417
Popularity
#1,061
Rating
3.9
Reviews
110
ISBNs
352
Languages
1

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