Item description for Field Trips: Bug Hunting, Animal Tracking, Bird-watching, Shore Walking by Jim Arnosky...
Overview Shares tips for watching wildlife--bugs, animal tracks, birds, and shoreline plants--explaining how to sharpen observational skills and identify various plants and animals.
With Jim Arnosky as your guide, an ordinary hike becomes an eye-opening experience. He'll help you spot a hawk soaring far overhead and note the details of a dragonfly up close. Study the black-and-white drawings -- based on his own field research -- and you'll discover if those tracks in the brush were made by a deer or a fox.
In his celebrated style, this author, artist, and naturalist enthusiastically shares a wealth of tips. Jim Arnosky wants you to enjoy watching wildlife. He carefully explains how field marks, shapes, and location give clues for identifying certain plants and animals wherever you are. He gives hints for sharpening observational skills. And he encourages you to draw and record birds, insects, shells, animal tracks, and other finds from a busy day's watch.
Citations And Professional Reviews Field Trips: Bug Hunting, Animal Tracking, Bird-watching, Shore Walking by Jim Arnosky has been reviewed by professional book reviewers and journalists at the following establishments -
Publishers Weekly - 05/20/2002
Kirkus Review - Children - 03/15/2002 page 405
PW Notes and Reprints - 05/20/2002 page 69
Bookpage - 06/01/2002 page 30
School Library Journal - 06/01/2002 page 118
Horn Book Magazine - 07/01/2002 page 482
Hornbook Guide to Children - 01/01/2002 page 424
Wilson Children's Catalog - 01/01/2003 page 14
Hornbook Guide to Children - 07/01/2002 page 424
Wilson Children's Catalog - 01/01/2006 page 184
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Est. Packaging Dimensions: Length: 0.25" Width: 7.25" Height: 9" Weight: 0.85 lbs.
Release Date Mar 26, 2002
ISBN 0688151728 ISBN13 9780688151720 UPC 046594015952
Availability 0 units.
More About Jim Arnosky
Jim Arnosky is the author/illustrator of more than 100 books, and received the first lifetime achievement award for Excellence in Science Illustration from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for nonfiction. Many of his books are ALA Notable Books, including Christopher Award-winner Drawing from Nature, and Jim has earned many starred reviews, including two for Wild Tracks. Jim lives in Vermont, but travels all over the U.S. for school and library visits. Visit jimarnosky.com to learn more. "
Jim Arnosky currently resides in South Ryegate, in the state of Vermont.
Jim Arnosky has published or released items in the following series...
Reviews - What do customers think about Field Trips: Bug Hunting, Animal Tracking, Bird-watching, Shore Walking?
Informative introduction to the outdoors Oct 29, 2007
Jim Arnosky's books about animals and nature are always exceptional and interesting for children. This is no exception. "Field Trips" is a wonderful overview of bugs, large wild animals, birds, and waterlife, and how we can observe and learn about these creatures. There are silhouettes of a large number of common insects, footprints of wild and domesticated animals and birds commonly found in N. America, and sea shells and shore plants. "Crinkleroot's Nature Almanac" (also by Jim Arnosky) provides a bit more detail about the same subject, but it seems to be out of print.
Fun book for 4 nature activities Aug 4, 2004
This book takes you thru 4 specific nature activities, using nature drawings & giving things to look for etc. I think we will enjoy this when we wish to do any of the 4 activities. It is not, however, a how-to book for general nature observation or nature notebooks, as I had thought. But the 4 activities are good -- bug hunting, bird watching, animal tracking, and shore walking.