Dancing Dragons: Dragonflies In Your Backyard

by Nancy Loewen, Rick Peterson

Describes the physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of dragonflies. Includes anatomy diagram and activity.

Genres: Picture Books

24 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Nancy Loewen grew up on a farm in southwestern Minnesota, surrounded by library books and cats. She's published more than 140 books for children. FOUR TO THE POLE (co-authored with polar explorer Ann Bancroft) and THE LAST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN were Minnesota Book Award finalists. Her WRITER'S TOOLBOX series received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers.

Nancy lives in Saint Paul and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She has two adult children and a cat who sometimes bites her knees under the table as she writes.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book gave some good, solid information about dragonflies, even though it managed to be rather dry and not especially interesting.