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A Bed for the Winter
A Bed for the Winter is the harrowing story of a little dormouse and his frantic search for a safe place to hibernate.
Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge.
With DK Readers, children will learn to read—then read to learn!
Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge.
With DK Readers, children will learn to read—then read to learn!
32 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2000
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November 1, 2011
A dormouse is trying to find a safe place to stay for the winter. It comes across many options but all are not quite right. Eventually he finds a whole in a tree. This book could be used to talk about different wildlife, hibernation and weather.
March 9, 2023
I have to start by saying that there’s a lot of words in this book for a Level 1 Reader book which surprised me. The types of words included in this book, surprised me too. Words like: meadow, squeezed, rotten, scurries, trembles, burrow, meadow, shivers, trapped, slither, etc. I have been looking at Level 1 Reader books and this book is at the top for the number of words it has and the difficult words that it uses. If you go by Levels, this is just a heads-up.
I think this book is great. There is a lot of fantastic information inside these pages from wasps, to squirrels, to bats, to owls so if you’re looking for some easy-to-understand information on winter life for animals this is a great find. Easy to read? I’m not so sure on the Level 1 assignment. In this book, a dormouse is looking for a place to sleep for the winter so he investigates a variety of places until he finds his finally resting spot for the winter. Each time he goes someplace to settle down, he finds another creature and we, as readers, learn what the dormouse discovered and how that the creature lives during the winter. This I found to be interesting information.
Going into a cave, the dormouse discovers some bats clinging to a rock. Huddling together, these bats will sleep all winter. The cave is damp and cold, too cold for the dormouse so it leaves to find another spot. He sure is a busy dormouse and he covers a lot of ground looking for the right spot. The illustrations are photographs which are terrific and take up a lot of the page. I think the photographs add quite a bit to the book. I think this is an excellent book but, in my world, not really a Level 1 Reader.
I think this book is great. There is a lot of fantastic information inside these pages from wasps, to squirrels, to bats, to owls so if you’re looking for some easy-to-understand information on winter life for animals this is a great find. Easy to read? I’m not so sure on the Level 1 assignment. In this book, a dormouse is looking for a place to sleep for the winter so he investigates a variety of places until he finds his finally resting spot for the winter. Each time he goes someplace to settle down, he finds another creature and we, as readers, learn what the dormouse discovered and how that the creature lives during the winter. This I found to be interesting information.
Going into a cave, the dormouse discovers some bats clinging to a rock. Huddling together, these bats will sleep all winter. The cave is damp and cold, too cold for the dormouse so it leaves to find another spot. He sure is a busy dormouse and he covers a lot of ground looking for the right spot. The illustrations are photographs which are terrific and take up a lot of the page. I think the photographs add quite a bit to the book. I think this is an excellent book but, in my world, not really a Level 1 Reader.
September 20, 2017
This is a wonderful non-fiction book. It talks about all kinds of animals and shows where they live in the winter. There are context words that talk about the definition of the animals home throughout the book. It also talks about what each animal does when they are outside when the weather is bad. The pictures really help the students understand better because they have a visual to look at.
Lesson- have your students pick their favorite animal from the story and write about what they learned.
Lesson- have your students pick their favorite animal from the story and write about what they learned.
April 17, 2021
Genre: Informational Nonfiction
Grade: K-1
This is a good informational book that shows different animals. It would help younger students learn about animals and where they live and what they do when winter comes. I like how it has different pictures of the animals and also there is a small picture on most pages of the habitat that these animals live in. It is a simple yet detailed book about different animals and it is really good.
Grade: K-1
This is a good informational book that shows different animals. It would help younger students learn about animals and where they live and what they do when winter comes. I like how it has different pictures of the animals and also there is a small picture on most pages of the habitat that these animals live in. It is a simple yet detailed book about different animals and it is really good.
September 26, 2021
An excellent book that follows a dormouse on her search for a bed for the winter. She encounters 9 different animals & we're given a peek at their choice of home. Wonderful photos, an easy win to engage young readers.
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January 23, 2024Very sweet story that the children really enjoy reading, it teaches about how different animals might live
February 3, 2024
A good comparison of how different animals make winter habitats.
February 7, 2016
This is one of those fact books that looks like a story. And it was real good.
You know what? This one had so many good words that they couldn't even fit them all in the list at the end. Like "slithers." And "shivers" and "scurries." Lots of good "S" words.
And I had no idea what a dormouse was but there he is, and he's cute. You'd think with his name he'd live indoors, but that has an extra O.
Good thing he didn't come in OUR house or he'd be a MORRISVILLE mouse!
You know what? This one had so many good words that they couldn't even fit them all in the list at the end. Like "slithers." And "shivers" and "scurries." Lots of good "S" words.
And I had no idea what a dormouse was but there he is, and he's cute. You'd think with his name he'd live indoors, but that has an extra O.
Good thing he didn't come in OUR house or he'd be a MORRISVILLE mouse!
December 10, 2014
This book is an informational book and is part of Westfield's reading street curriculum to teach hibernation and winter habitats in Kindergarten. I think that this book is very explicit and it has vocabulary words in boxes with the picture associated to the word. I think it is a great book for this age group.
December 20, 2014
A good introduction to reading, vocabulary, and the winter in this story about a dormouse trying to find the best house for the winter. My toddler loved matching the vocabulary words with their pictures, and I loved that she is increasing her understanding of words in a way that she responds to.
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June 12, 2013This was a good book I love animals and I have two dogs my self and Iove them so I think when you read you will about your animals
October 1, 2009
The door mouse didn't find a home until the end and he almost got eaten by an owl and a snake.
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