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How Many Baby Pandas?
Baby pandas abound as readers learn how they live and grow.
Science expert Sandra Markle bumps up the cuteness factor in this adorable photo essay featuring the eight panda pairs that were born during a baby boom at China’s Wolong Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in 2005. Basic counting skills combine with panda facts to introduce readers to numbers and these cuddly...more
Science expert Sandra Markle bumps up the cuteness factor in this adorable photo essay featuring the eight panda pairs that were born during a baby boom at China’s Wolong Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in 2005. Basic counting skills combine with panda facts to introduce readers to numbers and these cuddly...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
February 17th 2009
by Walker Childrens
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How Many Baby Pandas? is a good book to teach children how to count and inform them on the characteristics of baby giant pandas. This book has real life pictures and follows through the first months of a giant pandas life. The information in this book was just as interesting as the pictures.
The information in this book is factual and is helped through the real pictures. The information is formed in an organized way. It starts from birth and goes through the beginnings of a baby pandas character...more
The information in this book is factual and is helped through the real pictures. The information is formed in an organized way. It starts from birth and goes through the beginnings of a baby pandas character...more
How Many Baby Pandas? Is a book that not only uses counting but a little bit of Science as well and talks about Pandas and their first few months of life. It has a a lot of nice illustrations to help the children reading it understand what Pandas look like and also helps them count by counting the pandas page by page.
I feel this book would teach a lot to young readers about Panda bears and give them real life pictures of what they look like since most of them will never see one in real life. It...more
I feel this book would teach a lot to young readers about Panda bears and give them real life pictures of what they look like since most of them will never see one in real life. It...more
How many Baby Pandas is a book about giant baby pandas growing up in a zoos and special breeding centers. It talks about how pandas grow and are raised in the centers.
The book meets the informational criteria. The book is accurate and authentic. The book explains how the baby pandas are raised. The information presented is very organized. It is organized by numbers and questions. The book is very appealing because it has pictures of baby pandas and it is very brightly colored. The writing style...more
The book meets the informational criteria. The book is accurate and authentic. The book explains how the baby pandas are raised. The information presented is very organized. It is organized by numbers and questions. The book is very appealing because it has pictures of baby pandas and it is very brightly colored. The writing style...more
I introduced this informational book in story time by asking the children, "what color is a newborn panda?". Before opening to that page we also posed the question, "How do mother dogs and mother cats carry their babies?". Then the story performer pinched the back of her own neck and invited all the children to do so on their necks. "This would be the 'scruff' of the animals' neck," they were told. I did this because without this kind of preparation the children might think the mother panda pict...more
"How Many Baby Pandas?" by Sandra Markle is a primary book in the informational non-fiction genre. It was nominated for the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award in 2010. The book is a counting book depicting pandas doing different activities, such as eating and playing. It also has more detailed descriptions of pandas and their endangerment. A fiction twin text that would work with this book is "Lili: A Giant Panda of Sichuan" by Robert McClung. McClung's book is a little higher reading level, but the story...more
Part counting tale, part juvenile non-fiction, this book is full of adorable photographs of pandas as well as interesting facts. It documents a panda baby boom at the Wolong Giant Panda Breeding Center, where, in 2005, giant pandas gave birth to 16 cubs, including two sets of twins!
The way the pages are laid out, you could read it as a simple counting book to young children, but school-aged children learning about pandas would benefit from the short, factual paragraphs on each page. The counting...more
The way the pages are laid out, you could read it as a simple counting book to young children, but school-aged children learning about pandas would benefit from the short, factual paragraphs on each page. The counting...more
Sandra Markle is a former elementary science teacher who uses her books to educate children on many different levels. How Many Baby Pandas? uses amusing and adorable pictures of panda cubs to help children learn to count, while also drawing attention to panda plight in the world today. Markle has found an ingenious way to teach children academic skills while highlighting conservation issues. How Many Baby Pandas? has a great deal of interesting and educational facts about pandas that will intrig...more
This book is much more than it seems. At first glance it’s simply a counting book featuring panda’s but upon more careful reading it tells the delicate story of an endangered species. With photo illustrations and information chronicling the progression of pandas’ life this non-fiction book makes pandas’ accessible to young audiences. A glossary and fact page in the back of the book offer amply opportunity for further exploration. Nice.
Audience: This book would work best for one-on-one sharing, e...more
Audience: This book would work best for one-on-one sharing, e...more
Dec 06, 2012
Kayla Satterly
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The book How many Baby Pandas? Is about eight panda pairs that were born in China. The book takes place at the Wolong Panda Breeding and Research Center in 2005. The book shows how they grow, live and play. The book also shows the steps that are being taken to prepare them for their release into the wild. The book gives many interesting facts about pandas. I think it would be very useful in the classroom when teaching about animals or showing the different habitats that animals live in. You coul...more
The book meets the informational criteria. The book is accurate and authentic. The book explains how the baby pandas are raised. The information presented is very organized. It is organized by numbers and questions. The book is very appealing because it has pictures of baby pandas and it is very brightly colored. The writing style was clear and shows a good amount of enthusiasm for the topic.
This book would be good to use during a science lesson about pandas. It would also be good to help child...more
This book would be good to use during a science lesson about pandas. It would also be good to help child...more
This is a fantastic book to teach children how to count and also teach students about baby giant pandas. There a real life photographs of the baby pandas that detail the first few months of a babies life. This would be a great book to use for literacy instruction, as well as science. It starts from birth and goes through the beginnings of a baby pandas characteristics. The text is a little to difficult for young readers, but it would be a great book for a read aloud.
This book is a 2010 NCTE Orbis Picture Award Honor Book. The audience this book is geared towards would include boys and girls in kindergarten through third grade. The book is appealing due to the information about pandas in the wild and in captivity. It also has full-color photographs of pandas in their habitat. This book details the different stages in a pandas life. Most kids enjoy learning about pandas because they are adorable and rare to be seen.
The information in this book is factual and is helped through the real pictures. The information is formed in an organized way. It starts from birth and goes through the beginnings of a baby pandas characteristics. The format would be appealing to children through the adorable pictures and information after each one backing up the pictures. Sandra Markle does a good job of writing clearly for children and generates the enthusiasm through her pictures
May 01, 2013
Brianna Smith
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Sandra Markle creates an unremarkable story of eight baby pandas that she studied and helped to survive in China. This book is awesome because of how it catches a young readers attention by introducing numbers and counting, all while having real pictures, and true facts. The book really touches your heart seeing how these furry animals grow in their first months of life.
Not technically a picture book, but the format makes it great for different age groups. Older kids can read the supplemental text that tells more about pandas. Younger ones can enjoy the pictures and counting the baby pandas. Presumably, even older kids can learn about conservation, although I didn't read it with kids that old. A great nonfiction read for storytime.
Part concept book, part information text, this book builds on a counting motif to inform about pandas, their habitats, and conservation. Each counting question (e.g., "How many baby pandas have just been born?") prepares the reader for the informational text that follows. Wonderful photographs support the text and the balance of text and illustration makes this a good read for younger children. It also has nice supplemental resources (websites, simple glossary, fascinating facts, etc.). A great...more
This book was really informative but also really cute. The informative part was the author talked a lot about what happens when the baby pandas are born, what they eat, and a lot about a Chinese Panda Sanctuary. It also had a lot of really interesting pictures of pandas. I really enjoyed this book because it was a fast read and interesting.
This book counts up to eight by asking different questions about baby pandas. The book also talks about the pandas and their growth up to a year. It is a very interesting book because you are not only learning about counting but you are learning a lot about baby pandas. The pictures in this book are super cute.
I thought this book included a lot of interesting information about pandas. The photographs were awesome. It offers a lot of participation for the reader and children; often asking how many? The kids can count the pandas in each picture while learning very interesting information.
May 17, 2011
Cheryl/Aradanryl
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Shelves:
ar_4-6,
d_ab,
nature,
animal,
panda,
zoology,
childrens-literature,
childrens-nonfiction,
non-fiction,
counting,
picture-book,
d_lh
Cute pictures of baby pandas. This is a combination of a counting book for very young children and an informational book for older children. The pictures of the little pandas (16 were born one year in the Wolong Giant Panda Breeding Center) are such fun to look at.
Fun counting book that also includes many facts about baby Great Pandas. With the addition of informative paragraphs, this book is useful for many ages from preschool to 5th grade (and perhaps even older). A good informative book, could also be used as a model for animal reports.
A great book of facts about pandas, with darling photos--it's also a counting book! What more could you want? I'm always looking for ways to incorporate nonfiction into preschool storytimes--this one would be great for themes like animals, black/white, etc.
This is an adorable, informative, and vibrant non-fiction book about baby pandas. The pictures are bright and so cute! The information is also very interesting. If you love wildlife, I would recommend picking this book up for some light reading.
The photos are adorable. But I don't think that the attempt to make a picture book/science book/counting book really succeeds. This wouldn't work for preschoolers and the counting text may make older kids think that it is "a baby book".
I loved the information in this book, much of which I didn't know. It could easily not have been a counting book, and it would have been just as good. I thought it odd that it only went up to 8, when most counting books go up at least to 10, so for me it didn't quite work as a counting book. The pictures are beautiful, especially the shots of all 16 of the pandas together. So cute! I was saddened to read in the author's note at the end that an earthquake in 2008 damaged much of the Wolong Giant...more
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This is a great nonfiction book to teach about pandas. Kids will love the real pictures and seeing baby pandas. This book can also be integrated into a math lesson by counting the baby pandas on the page.
This is a great book with wonderful real-life photos. You can read a simpler version just for the counting with younger children or read it completely for factual information about pandas.
Picture book choice
For new readers it's a counting book. For primary it's a good read aloud. For early elementary it's a good read on my own book. And for everyone else it's irresistable photos and amazing facts about baby Pandas. A bonus to this book are the informational pages at the end of the book.
For new readers it's a counting book. For primary it's a good read aloud. For early elementary it's a good read on my own book. And for everyone else it's irresistable photos and amazing facts about baby Pandas. A bonus to this book are the informational pages at the end of the book.
Interactive book that allows students a chance to count the baby pandas on each page. Great pictures of life stages and very informational on panda preservation and life cycles.
This is a non-fiction picture book with many beautiful and engaging photographs of baby pandas. The book is part number / counting book, (on the left-facing page) and part informational text (on right facing page). The pictures were so cute you will find that you cannot look at them without smiling or giggling.
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Sandra Markle is the author of more than two hundred children's books, which have won numerous awards, including Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, IRA/CBC Children's Choice, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Trade Books for Children, NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended, and ALA Notable Books for Children. She lives in New Zealand.
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