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Up
Close! Exploring Nature With a Magnifying Glass
Author: Sarah Jane Brian
Publisher: Reader’s Digest Childrens Books
Product: Book (53 Pages)
Ages: 7 and up
Cost: $21.95 |
Get up close and personal with...a slug! Too slimy?
How about a skittering crab? Well, that might be too skittish for
the magnifying glass provided by Up Close! There’s lots to see
of the natural world with the Reader’s Digest Up Close! series.
In this book, author Brian guides future explorers through the woods,
fields, streams, beaches, and backyards or parks.
The
author gives helpful hints on how to take notes and how to “track”
wildlife, such as ants. Go ahead, place a candy bar near an anthill.
Watch what happens after one ant finds the food—it doesn’t
take long for another ant to come along for a bite, or another, and
another. Find out how they do that. And whatever you do, be careful
when training that magnifying glass on an ant when it’s sunny! |
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Sasha
Curry
Age 8
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I liked the pictures in the book and the magnifying
glass that came with it. The topic was very interesting because
I love bugs. The activities in the book definitely helped me understand
the bugs better. The activities were a good combination of hard
and easy things to do. What I enjoyed most about the book were the
experiments because they were fun! I actually liked everything about
the book and would change nothing. I learned a lot about surface
tension, for example. Surface tension helps bugs walk on water.
I also learned that poison ivy can irritate your skin and cause
itching, swelling, and blisters! Some of the best features of the
book, however, were the pictures. My overall impression was that
this book is interesting. The one word I would use to describe Up
Close! is: fun! The book scores a 10 out of 10 for me.
(Originally published in the Sept/Oct
2001 issue of YES Mag.) |
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