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Disney's Pocahontas Nature Guide: Woods and Wildlife
Can you recognize a sugar maple?
How do leaves change color in the fall?
Could someone really make a canoe from a birch tree?
How can you identify an animal by its tracks in the snow?
Explore nature and discover the answers to these questions and many more in this user-friendly, illustrated nature guide, inspired by Disney's film Pocahontas. Trees, leaves, flowers, birds, insects - they're all part of Pocahontas' woodland world and chances are they're right in your own backyard, too!
How do leaves change color in the fall?
Could someone really make a canoe from a birch tree?
How can you identify an animal by its tracks in the snow?
Explore nature and discover the answers to these questions and many more in this user-friendly, illustrated nature guide, inspired by Disney's film Pocahontas. Trees, leaves, flowers, birds, insects - they're all part of Pocahontas' woodland world and chances are they're right in your own backyard, too!
64 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1995
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August 29, 2022
If you are a Disney fan and also into learning more about nature than this book may be a good starter book for you. And being a Disney fan is rather loose since only the two first pages mention the characters from the Disney film while it is done as an introduction where Grandmother Willow and Pocahontas are talking about what the best parts of the forest, which then leads to how important trees are.
The majority of this nature guide is actually dedicated to learning about trees more so than the animals thus the reader is first introduced to important trees that featured in the lives of the Native Americans followed by a breakdown of tree anatomy if you will. The book is interspersed with other facts between the pages such as a snowflake guide, birds, tracks and who's hiding on the forest floor although any mention of forest animals such as deer, opossums, etc. are left out.
Disney's Pocahontas Nature Guide ends with a brief look into how we use trees nowadays and what can be done to help their future as well as that they are a renewable resource if left alone. Finally the book ends with a spread that provides the reader with hiking tips if they should desire to want to get out to explore nearby forests for themselves.
The illustrations are basic sepia-like sketches that are detailed and informative when used as models. Others include illustrations of what certain Native American homes and/or activities may have looked like such as a totem, a bark lodge or a mask carved into a basswood just to name a few. And there is one darker shaded illustration that is based on Disney's Grandmother Willow at the start of the book.
Although using a Disney character to sell the book and then depriving the reader of any actual inclusivity of those characters it actually does make for a pretty good book to be included in any science library or curriculum that is exploring trees. As such I would recommend it for the scientific facts instead of the Disney brand while hoping that a read of this may encourage younger readers to become more interested in the natural world around them.
The majority of this nature guide is actually dedicated to learning about trees more so than the animals thus the reader is first introduced to important trees that featured in the lives of the Native Americans followed by a breakdown of tree anatomy if you will. The book is interspersed with other facts between the pages such as a snowflake guide, birds, tracks and who's hiding on the forest floor although any mention of forest animals such as deer, opossums, etc. are left out.
Disney's Pocahontas Nature Guide ends with a brief look into how we use trees nowadays and what can be done to help their future as well as that they are a renewable resource if left alone. Finally the book ends with a spread that provides the reader with hiking tips if they should desire to want to get out to explore nearby forests for themselves.
The illustrations are basic sepia-like sketches that are detailed and informative when used as models. Others include illustrations of what certain Native American homes and/or activities may have looked like such as a totem, a bark lodge or a mask carved into a basswood just to name a few. And there is one darker shaded illustration that is based on Disney's Grandmother Willow at the start of the book.
Although using a Disney character to sell the book and then depriving the reader of any actual inclusivity of those characters it actually does make for a pretty good book to be included in any science library or curriculum that is exploring trees. As such I would recommend it for the scientific facts instead of the Disney brand while hoping that a read of this may encourage younger readers to become more interested in the natural world around them.
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