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Snag It: Who Needs a Dead Tree?  |
Explore the crucial role of dead or dying trees, known as snags, in forest ecosystems. Nature Photographer and Naturalist Mary Holland explains how snags provide essential habitats for a variety of animals, including birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects. Highlighting the diverse ways animals use snags for nesting, shelter, food, and perching, this book is ideal for environmental education to promote wildlife conservation and ecological awareness to young readers. Written by Mary Holland
32 pg, 8.5 x 10 , Ages 5-9, Grades 1-4, Lexile: 650L
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| Keywords: animal homes, animal and plant interactions, animals raising young, anmal parents, life cycles, tree holes, animal adaptations for kids, animal adaptations behavioral and physical, animal adaptations behavioral, adaptations animals use to survive, animal adaptations habitat, animal anatomy & adaptations, nature photography book for kids |
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| Animals in the book: bald eagle, bat, flying squirrel, garter snake, great blue heron (cover), green heron, porcupine, raccoon, red squirrel (title page), red-breasted nuthatch, salamander, screech owl, turkey vulture, woodpecker |
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Mary Holland is a naturalist, nature photographer, columnist, and award-winning author with a life-long passion for natural history. After graduating from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources, Mary worked as a naturalist at the Museum of the Hudson Highlands in New York state, directed the state-wide Environmental Learning for the Future program for the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, worked as a resource naturalist for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and designed and presented her own "Knee-High Nature Programs" for libraries and elementary schools throughout Vermont and New Hampshire.
Her children's books with Arbordale include Animal Tracks and Traces, Animal Homes, Otis the Owl, Ferdinand Fox's First Summer (NSTA / CBC Most Outstanding Science Trade Book and Moonbeam Children's Book Award), The Beavers' Busy Year, Yodel the Yearling, Animal Skins, Animal Ears, Animal Tails, Animal Noses, Animal Eyes, Animal Legs, and Animal Mouths (NSTA / CBC Most Outstanding Science Trade Book). Mary's book Naturally Curious: a Photographic Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods and Marshes of New England won the 2011 National Outdoor Book Award for the Nature Guidebook category. Naturally Curious Day by Day was published in 2016. Mary lives in Vermont with her lab, Greta. Visit Mary's blog at Naturally Curious with Mary Holland.
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