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Things That Float and Things That Don't Paperback – Picture Book, August 31, 2014
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- Reading age4 - 8 years
- Print length32 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade levelPreschool - 3
- Lexile measureAD540L
- Dimensions8.92 x 0.1 x 10.74 inches
- PublisherHoliday House
- Publication dateAugust 31, 2014
- ISBN-100823431762
- ISBN-13978-0823431762
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★"It's rare to find a picture book that uses simple, hands-on activities so successfully, leading young children to a fuller understanding of a scientific concept."
--Booklist, Starred Review
"It's rare to find a picture book that uses simple, hands-on activities so successfully, leading young children to a fuller understanding of a scientific concept."
Booklist, Starred Review
"Adler shows his customary skill for explicating mathematical concepts in this smart exploration of floatation and density."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This title supports the Common Core State Standards that focus on measurement skills, interpretation of data, and incorporation of key ideas and details in the text. Recommended for math collections in public and school libaries and classroom shelves."-School Library Journal
"It's rare to find a picture book that uses simple, hands-on activities so successfully, leading young children to a fuller understanding of a scientific concept." "Booklist," Starred Review"
"Adler shows his customary skill for explicating mathematical concepts in this smart exploration of floatation and density."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This title supports the Common Core State Standards that focus on measurement skills, interpretation of data, and incorporation of key ideas and details in the text. Recommended for math collections in public and school libaries and classroom shelves."-School Library Journal
About the Author
Anna Raff is an award-winning illustrator of many children's books. She has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and lives in New York City.
Product details
- Publisher : Holiday House; Illustrated edition (August 31, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0823431762
- ISBN-13 : 978-0823431762
- Reading age : 4 - 8 years
- Lexile measure : AD540L
- Grade level : Preschool - 3
- Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.92 x 0.1 x 10.74 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #581,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #312 in Children's Physics Books (Books)
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About the authors
I write both fiction and non-fiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later. Of course, since I'll be spending a lot of time with each main character, why not have him or her be someone I like? Andy Russell is based, loosely, on a beloved member of my family. He's fun to write about and the boy who inspired the character is even more fun to know. Cam Jansen is based even more loosely on a classmate of mine in the first grade whom we all envied because we thought he had a photographic memory. Now, especially when my children remind me of some promise they said I made, I really envy Cam's amazing memory. I have really enjoyed writing about Cam Jansen and her many adventures. For my books of non-fiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. My first biography was Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir. To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedia. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there. I've written many other biographies, including books about Martin Luther King, Jr; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Helen Keller; Harriet Tubman; Anne Frank; and many others in my Picture Book Biography series. I've been a Yankee and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades so I wrote Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man. It's more the story of his great courage than his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig. I am working now on another book about a courageous man, Janusz Korczak. My book One Yellow Daffodil is fiction, too, but it's based on scores of interviews I did with Holocaust survivors for my books We Remember the Holocaust, Child of the Warsaw Ghetto, The Number on My Grandfather's Arm, and Hiding from the Nazis. The stories I heard were compelling. One Yellow Daffodil is both a look to the past and to the future, and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children. I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books including Fraction Fun, Calculator Riddles, and Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons. In my office I have this sign, "Don't Think. Just Write!" and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, even each sentence or paragraph. For me stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times. And I work with my editors. I look forward to their suggestions, their help in the almost endless rewrite process. Well, it's time to get back to dreaming, and to writing, my dream of a job. David A. Adler is the author of more than 175 children's books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.
Anna Raff is an award-winning illustrator of many books for children including THE DAY THE UNIVERSE EXPLODED MY HEAD, WORLD RAT DAY (both Candlewick), YOU ARE NOT A CAT!, YOU MAKE ME SNEEZE! (both Astra), and IF I WERE A KANGAROO (Viking). Before her career as an illustrator, she was a designer and art director at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and several children’s book publishers. Anna is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts, has an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, a BA from Connecticut College, and lives in New York City. You can see more of her work at annaraff.com.
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We ended up making boats out of corks and floated them down the stream
We ended up making boats out of corks and floated them down the stream
It’s a great picture book that uses simple, hands-on activities leading young children to a fuller understanding of a scientific concept and I would recommend this for elementary school-age children. It can be surprising which objects float and which don't. An apple floats, but a ball of aluminium foil does not. But if that same ball of foil is shaped into a boat, it floats! Why? This book does a great job explaining a tricky concept. Difficult concepts are explained in kid-friendly terms, and several investigations are suggested to help students grasp ideas.
The illustrations are very colourful and cartoonish and effectively demonstrate the activities described in the text with large images that are easy to comprehend. A boy, a girl and a dog demonstrate things that float in water when they are less dense than the water around them. These kids can also be seen using toy boats, plastic bottles, pennies, aluminium foil, clay and ice to discover what things float and why. Adler suggests filling a sink with water and testing whether different objects float, as well as using modelling clay to demonstrate how shape is as important a factor as density.
This book can be a great addition in classroom and Libraries. It can be very helpful & useful for science teachers to explain to the kids this tricky concept of density and flotation in a fun & easy-to-understand way! The book can be further enhanced with more objective questions based on understanding.
I reviewed this book for reading with your kids podcast and found it extremely very informative, points are well presented.