What's Up, What's Down?
by Lola M. Schaefer
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Illustrations and simple text show young readers what the world looks like from a variety of different perspectives.Tags
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This is a fun read that shows different perspectives of how animals live and see the world. This would be a fun interactive book for children to explore and read each colorful page from top to bottom, or bottom to top. Very creative and designed book.
Genre:Informational
Media: Paint, oil and pens.
Genre:Informational
Media: Paint, oil and pens.
This book shows the world through other animals perspective. It is neat to think about the smallest animals, all the way up to the biggest, and even in between. I love that it takes you on a journey through nature to find out where different animals live and what they do there.
I like What's Up, What's Down. It told about nature from an interesting perspective. It started from the soil and went up to the moon. Then, started from the moon and went down to the bottom of the ocean. Initially, I wondered how she was going to move down without going through the same layers, but I thought she was clever in how she accomplished it. This book will appeal to kindergarten to 3rd grade. Teaching ideas include perspective, nature.
I assumed this book would challenge the spatially human centric concepts of up and down, but rather it enforced the universality of away from and towards the center of the Earth. The images are attractive and probably interesting to very young children, just beginning to discover the world.
This book would be fantastic for the younger audiences! Children never think about life from an ant's perspective or even a giraffe. I can literally see the light bulbs going off. Imagination and realization are beautiful things.
I found this book to be pretty cool, but not much to it. It would open up some questions though. It takes up and down the world into different parts such as: a toad, to the moon, and all the way back down into the deep sea. Good for students just learning basic biology.
This story starts off by going up, "what's up if you're a mole A root, what's up if you're a root? Grass. So on and so forth until you reach the moon and go back down to the depths of the ocean.
This book teaches children how to view the world from different perspectives. As well as a variety of topics that relate to earth science.
This book teaches children how to view the world from different perspectives. As well as a variety of topics that relate to earth science.
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Lola Schaefer is an author, teacher, speaker and writing consultant who is passionate about helping children learn the tools of writing so they can express themselves. Lola is the author of more than 200 books for children including picture books, easy readers, classroom books and informational texts. Her book Frankie Stein, published by Marshall show more Cavendish in 2007, was awarded the Children's Choice Book Award in 2008 and the Mockingbird Award in 2009. As an educational consultant, Lola has worked in dozens of schools across the country. She shares effective classroom strategies on writing workshop, the craft of writing, and genre structures. Lola offers demonstration lessons, as well as general presentations on craft mini-lessons and the art of writing. She is the author of ten Scholastic Professional Resource books for teachers that focus on strategies to improve student writing. Lola lives with her husband Ted in the mountains of north Georgia. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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