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How to Hide...
How to Hide a Polar Bear and Other Mammals
Clever verse and beautiful illustrations showing animals alone on one page and then camouflaged on the next teach children about how animals like bears, deer, and zebras hide in the wild in a new entry in the All Aboard series. Reprint.
1 pages, Paperback
First published October 30, 1985
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Ruth Heller
120 books47 followersAuthor and illustration with a passionate interest in Korean culture. She lives with her husband in San Francisco, California.
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September 13, 2021
I can't think of a better story time book for the library during the time when the classroom teacher is teaching the concept of camouflage and any other animal adaptation. Heller's illustrations, intelligent rhymes and science facts as always blend together into a delightful picture book experience.
April 3, 2009
I read this book, and the others in this series many, many times when I was a child. I used to ask my mom or dad to read the book to me before bed.
I love the poem at the end (or is it the beginning?) of the book:
"Because the world is hostile
All creatures need protection
They need to hide so thoroughly
So they defy detection
So, some of them use camouflage
To fade away with ease
From predators who like to dine
Upon these predatees
But predators to live must eat
So also fade and are discreet
So that the prey on which they sup
Can't see who going to
Eat
Them
Up!"
After that my dad would always pretend the book was trying to eat me. This is one of the oldest memories I have from my childhood, and one of the reasons I love the book so much.
(I just wrote the poem from memory, so it has a few errors, more than likely.)
This book was great because it was interactive, in that you had to try and find the hidden animal on the page. It really keeps you attention, as you race to find the animal before anyone else. This is one of my favorite children's books. It was fun, and taught a great lesson about nature, and the animals that live in it.
I love the poem at the end (or is it the beginning?) of the book:
"Because the world is hostile
All creatures need protection
They need to hide so thoroughly
So they defy detection
So, some of them use camouflage
To fade away with ease
From predators who like to dine
Upon these predatees
But predators to live must eat
So also fade and are discreet
So that the prey on which they sup
Can't see who going to
Eat
Them
Up!"
After that my dad would always pretend the book was trying to eat me. This is one of the oldest memories I have from my childhood, and one of the reasons I love the book so much.
(I just wrote the poem from memory, so it has a few errors, more than likely.)
This book was great because it was interactive, in that you had to try and find the hidden animal on the page. It really keeps you attention, as you race to find the animal before anyone else. This is one of my favorite children's books. It was fun, and taught a great lesson about nature, and the animals that live in it.
March 12, 2011
Another
awesome (really must learn some new adjectives ;))
rhyme
Ridiculous
how
many
fun
books
there are
out
there
Notice
how funny
you know
the book
will be
just by
the
title
Remember
the great
feedback
I got
about
making funny scenes
ridiculous
not just
funny
Is your
book
ridiculous?
hee hee
awesome (really must learn some new adjectives ;))
rhyme
Ridiculous
how
many
fun
books
there are
out
there
Notice
how funny
you know
the book
will be
just by
the
title
Remember
the great
feedback
I got
about
making funny scenes
ridiculous
not just
funny
Is your
book
ridiculous?
hee hee
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