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Who's Been Here?
Around the Pond: Who's Been Here?
Cammy and William follow an old deer path around the pond in search of blueberries. But unexpectedly they find a lot more. Clue after clue tells them what kind of animal has been there before and left its trace behind. Share their adventure in this handsome and informative companion to In the Who's Been Here? and In the Who's Been Here?
40 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1996
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April 28, 2020
My 9 yr old loves this series.
December 3, 2017
Grades: PreK-K, 1-2
Genre-Realistic Fiction
Around the Pond: Who's Been Here? is a Great book to read aloud to a group or for an adult and a child to work one on one. I like how the illustrations provide the evidence to what animal has been around or in one case in the lake. the pictures are beautiful with great detail while the storyline moves along at a study pace. I would, in fact, recommend this book to people because it can be used to build critical thinking. for example, in the book, they show a pile of sticks, a dam, and askes "whos been here?"(Page 15) and based on visual clues a student would have to guess.
(Page number may be off depending if you counted the title page.)
Genre-Realistic Fiction
Around the Pond: Who's Been Here? is a Great book to read aloud to a group or for an adult and a child to work one on one. I like how the illustrations provide the evidence to what animal has been around or in one case in the lake. the pictures are beautiful with great detail while the storyline moves along at a study pace. I would, in fact, recommend this book to people because it can be used to build critical thinking. for example, in the book, they show a pile of sticks, a dam, and askes "whos been here?"(Page 15) and based on visual clues a student would have to guess.
(Page number may be off depending if you counted the title page.)
July 2, 2018
Around the Pond is a wonderful, fictional-but-educational picture book. The illustrations are realistic. Two children are picking blueberries around a pond and keep finding evidence of wildlife. The book acts like a guessing book, but my guess is preschoolers will not know the answers most of the time. I didn't know the answers some of the time! But there is information about each of the animals at the end.
The formatting annoyed me. Each new sentence started on a new line, but not as a new paragraph. Nit-picky, but, like . . . it still baffles me how people spending time and money on a product can care so little about the basics, like formatting.
The formatting annoyed me. Each new sentence started on a new line, but not as a new paragraph. Nit-picky, but, like . . . it still baffles me how people spending time and money on a product can care so little about the basics, like formatting.
June 10, 2020
Very beautiful illustrations, it’s worth picking this book up just to enjoy them! I really like this series and so do my children. Any child who likes animals will enjoy this book, which is formatted as a guessing game. Explore the edge of a pond with a brother and sister and guess which animal has left each sign they find along the way. I like that humans are included in the signs left, which leads to a conversation about humans’ connections to the environment and the animal kingdom. Also included at the back are descriptions of each featured animal.
December 4, 2017
Genre: informational
Grade: 2nd-3rd
in this book, two kids are going around a pond and are trying to guess what animal was there based on feathers shells, paw prints, ect.
This book does hold some information about animals, but vary little. it gives general clues than gives you a specific animal. for instance there is a snake skin, the answer a garter snake specificly. this just says that only garter snakes shed skin. besides the laking information it was good.
Grade: 2nd-3rd
in this book, two kids are going around a pond and are trying to guess what animal was there based on feathers shells, paw prints, ect.
This book does hold some information about animals, but vary little. it gives general clues than gives you a specific animal. for instance there is a snake skin, the answer a garter snake specificly. this just says that only garter snakes shed skin. besides the laking information it was good.
October 19, 2019
The PreK kids loved guessing who had been around the pond. I loved the observing and predicting they had to do as we read, the information they took in, and the super realistic illustrations. I'm hoping the library also has the similar books that Lindsay Barrett George wrote about tracks in the woods and in the snow.
October 28, 2025
This is a fun tale about exploring around a pond and figuring out which animals left the various clues. The narrative is short and informative and the big, colorful gouache paint pictures of the various animals are nicely detailed.
April 14, 2019
A great book about inferences and how animals affect their environment!
October 23, 2015
These kids need to get blueberries to make a pie, and instead of going to Shaw's they go out and try to pick them, which is the hard way, especially if you're getting blackberries, because of the prickers.
Anyway, while they're out there doing that they see all these different animals, or at least their footprints and eggs and feathers and shells and even a SNAKE SKIN, and it's a good thing that snake wasn't in it. But they didn't see the actual animals. I guess they all ran away when the kids came out and started making noise. But it's OK, because they got a lot of berries and now they can make a pie PLUS get to go for a swim, so it all worked out.
And guess what? They showed ANOTHER animal that likes fish in this one: a heron! I guess everybody really likes fish but me. Oh, well. More for them.
This one had really amazing pictures so it was a really good one.
Anyway, while they're out there doing that they see all these different animals, or at least their footprints and eggs and feathers and shells and even a SNAKE SKIN, and it's a good thing that snake wasn't in it. But they didn't see the actual animals. I guess they all ran away when the kids came out and started making noise. But it's OK, because they got a lot of berries and now they can make a pie PLUS get to go for a swim, so it all worked out.
And guess what? They showed ANOTHER animal that likes fish in this one: a heron! I guess everybody really likes fish but me. Oh, well. More for them.
This one had really amazing pictures so it was a really good one.
June 30, 2012
This is a fantastic book for children! It tells the story of Cammy and William who follow an old deer trail around a pond and spot many clues which kids can guess as to what was there by the pond. For example, footprints seen in mud tell us a coon has been there. A big house made out of mud and sticks tell us of a beaver there. I can't wait to use this book in the fall with my students at school!
June 23, 2015
Two children walk around a pond as they pick berries and come across tracks and signs of the recent presence of wildlife which are then identified for the reader.
A good glimpse at a woodland pond ecosystem's inhabitants that will help readers discover ways to find evidence of wildlife even if they don't see the actual critters. The illustration style of this book is a little dated and may not be as appealing to kids for that reason.
A good glimpse at a woodland pond ecosystem's inhabitants that will help readers discover ways to find evidence of wildlife even if they don't see the actual critters. The illustration style of this book is a little dated and may not be as appealing to kids for that reason.
August 24, 2017
As Cammie and William and their dog Sam, explore around the pond they discover clues to the wildlife -- and wonder "who's been here?" -- turn the page and a beautiful illustration tells the answer. Wonderful for teaching children to observe nature around them.
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September 6, 2016This story (and series) appear to take place in a northern area. I think children from other areas can still guess some of the animals in this book. A paragraph of additional information about each animal follows the story. Animal illustrations are vivid.
December 9, 2014
What a great book! This follows two children on their path around a Pond to find blueberries. Along the way they watch nature for signs of animals passage and share it with us in a fun and guessing/game way. Really enjoyed this with my almost 5 year old. Now off to find the others in her series.
March 25, 2016
I read this book to my kids when they were younger. I dedicate this to my two youngest. The naturalists; they love the rain, the trees, the animals, the night sky, the water. This weekend~one hiking in Olympic National Park while the other is camping in Oregon. Be free.
December 9, 2008
Simple story about keeping your eyes open to what you can discover in the world around you. Also "In the Snow: Who's Been Here?"
May 4, 2012
Two children off to pick blueberries, yet observant enough to see clues left by various animals around the pond.
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February 8, 2012On the hardcover shelf
May 13, 2018
L’s favorite.
May 9, 2020
Read at Circle Time at the Tenley library on 8/14/12: http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/...
January 21, 2013
This would be a nice book to read with a nature study in science. You could teach students how to classify and categorize the animals the children find around the pond.
February 7, 2013
This is a good book to use for making inferences. Students could use what they know about animals and the clues in the book to infer the different animals that have been around the pond.
February 18, 2014
Beautiful paintings pare nicely with simple text, exploring the habitat around a pond as brother and sister collect blueberries.
February 2, 2017
This book is good for talking about footprints of different animals, or knowing when something has been there and what it might be. Great for making predictions.
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