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Pond & River
Full-color photos. "A very attractive pictorial introduction to plants and animals found in aquatic habitats at various seasons of the year. Chapters focus on fish, birds, mammals, amphibians, plants, insects, mollusks, estuaries, and the salt marsh. The photographs are excellent. A first-rate way for youngsters to identify the more common organisms."--(starred) Science Books & Films.
63 pages, Hardcover
Published September 12, 1988
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Steve Parker
1,333 books86 followersSteve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.
Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.
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December 21, 2020
Man I really love these books! I know they are made for a younger audience but they are the prefect Sunday after read. Just to sit back and read and briefly learn about something new and the pictures are amazing, Grab one and start learning. Highly recommended
November 18, 2019
It is important to expose students to various types of genres that cover many different topics, this way you can engage students in reading that is fascinating to them and will get them intrigued in reading. Eyewitness Books are a wonderful resource for students interested in various nonfiction topics. One example is the Pond & River Eyewitness book. Although this book is text heavy, the text is not in large blocks. Instead, it is broken up with lots of photographs that are then captioned. Each page discusses a different component of ponds and rivers, so this is also a helpful book to have in the classroom for lessons. For a unit on various ecosystems, various parts of this book can be read and shown to students (based on what specifically is going to be discussed in that lesson). This book has many sections on the different plants, animals, and insects as well as how the study and conservation of these things.
December 10, 2025
This book is an excellent discussion of the riparian habitat. It mentions and explains species of plants, bacteria, insects and a variety of other arthropods. It includes mammals and birds that also depend on and complete pond and river habitat. The photography and illustrations are excellent, and the science is well taught.
April 23, 2016
Pond and River (1988) Written by Steve Parker
This picture book first focuses on spring plants, then animals, trout, insects in the water, and then life along the river bank, in general. Because the picture book quickly flops from topic to topic, it is helpful that there are headings to signal to readers that the topic is changing. The picture book is incredibly descriptive and includes interesting facts and statistics that most people wouldn’t know without reading it.
• This picture book is set up with close- ups of the ecology of plants and animals in freshwater. The photographs of the pictures look real and are surrounded with labels, are magnified, and contain descriptions. Without these incorporations, readers would only see beautiful photographs, not understanding the meaning behind it. The text and pictures help to give readers a really good concept of the plants and animals that makeup rivers and ponds.
• The book contains a table of contents and index. Because there is an endless amount of information to be learned from this book, it is good that it is organized in this way. The different style of fonts and different size of fonts also help distinguish the different elements from each other. The definitely work together to give readers a complete picture of plant and animal life within ponds and rivers.
• The first page is a simple picture of a flower with leaf petals found in a pond. While all of the other pages are filled from top-to-bottom with text and images, this page is extremely different from all of the rest since it is so simple and the picture is placed on a plain background. It is a good thing that the reader’s first impression is this because it sets them up with the types of images that are to come and doesn’t overwhelm them with an immediate overload of text, lots of details, and lots of pictures.
I was very impressed by this picture book. It is incredible just how much can be learned from a picture book. Picture books are often thought of as easy reads but this picture book certainly was not. It contained a lot of great vocabulary and concepts that are not easy to understand but important, nonetheless.
This picture book first focuses on spring plants, then animals, trout, insects in the water, and then life along the river bank, in general. Because the picture book quickly flops from topic to topic, it is helpful that there are headings to signal to readers that the topic is changing. The picture book is incredibly descriptive and includes interesting facts and statistics that most people wouldn’t know without reading it.
• This picture book is set up with close- ups of the ecology of plants and animals in freshwater. The photographs of the pictures look real and are surrounded with labels, are magnified, and contain descriptions. Without these incorporations, readers would only see beautiful photographs, not understanding the meaning behind it. The text and pictures help to give readers a really good concept of the plants and animals that makeup rivers and ponds.
• The book contains a table of contents and index. Because there is an endless amount of information to be learned from this book, it is good that it is organized in this way. The different style of fonts and different size of fonts also help distinguish the different elements from each other. The definitely work together to give readers a complete picture of plant and animal life within ponds and rivers.
• The first page is a simple picture of a flower with leaf petals found in a pond. While all of the other pages are filled from top-to-bottom with text and images, this page is extremely different from all of the rest since it is so simple and the picture is placed on a plain background. It is a good thing that the reader’s first impression is this because it sets them up with the types of images that are to come and doesn’t overwhelm them with an immediate overload of text, lots of details, and lots of pictures.
I was very impressed by this picture book. It is incredible just how much can be learned from a picture book. Picture books are often thought of as easy reads but this picture book certainly was not. It contained a lot of great vocabulary and concepts that are not easy to understand but important, nonetheless.
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November 30, 2013AR Quiz No. 17236 EN Nonfiction
Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1.0
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Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1.0
Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP
February 17, 2014
Chronicles of Han Storm Book Club Read (Educational - Nature)
Easy to read, well compiled book on general pond and river knowledge every person should know.
March 3, 2014
Chronicles of Han Storm Book Club Read
Easy reference guide to pond and river life. Well worth adding to your library.
September 2, 2016
I've always loved ponds and pond life, lovely book.
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