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Water Beds: Sleeping In The Ocean (Arbordale Collection)
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About Water Beds: Sleeping In The Ocean
Product Description This soothing bedtime story explains how ten different marine mammals animals that live in water but breathe air sleep in the ocean. Based on up-to-date scientific research, the brief portraits are explained in simple, poetic language. Water Beds invites children to drift into sleep on gentle waves of imagination. The For Creative Minds educational section includes fun facts about marine mammal adaptations, and a Design Your Own Marine Mammal craft. This nonfiction picture book with a cuddle factor includes a 5-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 31-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Water Beds is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. Awards: Teacher's Choice Award 2007 ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist '05 SIBA Book Award Short List Also available in Spanish paperback: Camas de agua: durmiendo en el océano From School Library Journal PreSchool-Grade 1–As a young boy slumbers, readers learn about the sleeping habits of 10 assorted water mammals, such as whales, seals, and dolphins. Karwoski introduces the story with an informative preface in which she points out the vast differences in these mammals' sleeping habits. However, the picture-book pages that follow, while age-appropriate, seem too simplistic in contrast. Attractive artwork resembling oil paintings helps set the deep-sea mood by using a blue-gray palette. Nonetheless, at times the appearance of the young boy sleeping underwater is disconcerting. The author provides an appendix where still more information about the mammals is highlighted. The bibliography and extended artwork suggestions rely on using the publisher's Web page to aid in creating original drawings. –Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review The connection with a child's understanding of sleep is a natural few authors have exploited, and it appears to work. The result is an intriguing discussion of a scientific question in a language that is nonthreatening and completely relevant to the reader. --Science Books & Films Water Beds dives into the many mysteries of animal sleep with illustrations that are a dream come true. It's a great way to introduce youngsters to the variety of sleeping patterns found in marine animals ranging from killer whales to sea otters to walruses. A wonderful bedtime story, perfect for inspiring dreams on the beauty of the oceans. --SeaWorld Adventure Parks This journey is the basis for a soothing instruction of marine mammal sleep habits, delivered in a simplified but accurate manner. --Foreword Reviews From the Publisher Arbordale Publishing is pleased to announce that "Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean" is the recipient of a 2007 Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Award and a 2005 Mom's Choice Best Children's Author Award. We send Gail and Connie our warmest congratulations and hope that children everywhere can enjoy this sweet bedtime story. "Water Beds" is also a Southeastern Independent Bookseller's Association short list finalist, a Book Sense Picks nominee, a 2005 finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year award and an Accelerated Reader title. From the Back Cover "'Water Beds' is a book that dives into the many mysteries of animal sleep with illustrations that are a dream come true. It's a great way to introduce youngsters to the variety of sleeping patterns found in marine animals ranging from killer whales to sea otters and walruses. A wonderful bedtime story, perfect for inspiring dreams of the beauty of the oceans." -Brad Andrews, SeaWorld Adventure Parks Corporate Vice President, Zoological Op
