Backyard Detective
Critters Up Close
Publisher's description. Explore the fascinating mini-wilds of your own backyard with this dramatic photographic exploration of the natural world. Award-winning photographer and natural scientist Nic Bishop has combined more than 200 detailed, stop-action images of common backyard animals into seven lush, life-size environments that are literally crawling with critters. Young nature detectives will spy more than 100 different spider, snakes, wasps, and beetles busy hiding, prowling, eating — and getting eaten. Inviting informational spreads identify all the animals in an appealing, contagiously enthusiastic text that lets readers in on neat tips and facts. With kid-friendly natural science projects and a stunning pictorial index, this fact-filled, visually exciting book invites both sharp-eyed search-and-find fun and real nature science inquiry. Bugs have never been so much fun!
Honors include:
2002 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Award
2002 National Council Teachers English Notable Children’s Book
2002 National Council Teachers English Notable Children’s Book
Scholastic Press ISBN 0-439-17478-3
Text and photographs are copyright.