Here are the books we read:
- Life in a Pond by Fowler
- Pictures with just a few sentences on each page
- Pond Life by Stewart and Bergin
- Great realistic drawings; introduces frogs, three-spined sticklebacks, newts, ducks; discusses seasons, mating, and life cycles
- Would You Rather Be a Polliwog? by Worth (a Cat in the Hat book)
- Comical drawings; touches on insects, frogs, ducks, turtles, fish, metamorphosis
- The True Book of Animals of Small Pond by Erickson
- Realistic drawings on each page; true story; follows the beaver, raccoon, mink, otter, and muskrat from winter through autumn
- From Tadpole to Frog by Pfeffer
- Good drawings; life cycle of a bullfrog, which takes 2 years to change from tadpole to frog
- Box Turtle at Long Pond by George
- Realistic drawings; a day in the life of a box turtle
- Pond by Morrison
- Realistic drawings; a pond, from spring to winter; just a few sentences on each page, but it gives additional information about pond plants and animals at the bottom of the page that older children would be interested in
- Pond Life by Greenaway
- Pictures with lots of information; we just looked at the pictures in this book
- The Beaver Pond by Tresselt
- Good drawings; follows the life cycle of a beaver pond
- One Small Square Pond by Silver
- If you have a natural pond that you can visit, it gives lots of information and activities to do throughout a year
- The Living Pond by Hester
- Great photographs and information
- Life in Ponds and Streams by Amos
- Great photographs with a medium about of text
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