{"id":609,"date":"2019-11-15T05:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=609"},"modified":"2019-11-11T06:50:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:50:50","slug":"otters-snails-and-tadpole-tails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/otters-snails-and-tadpole-tails-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Otters, Snails and Tadpole Tails"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"by Eric Ode; illus by Ruth Harper
\n32 pages; all ages
\nKane Miller Books \/ EDC Publishing, 2019<\/p>\n

Will I find you here<\/em>
\nwhere cedar wears her mossy shawl\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

With an otter as our guide, we meet the amphibians, mollusks, birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and plants that inhabit a wetland.<\/p>\n

What I like about this book:<\/span> <\/strong>I love that the otter shows up in most of the spreads \u2013 as though they\u2019re our tour guide. It reminds me of the time my youngest insisted there \u201cmight be otters\u201d in our little stream and so we hiked the length of it \u2013 finding crayfish, insects, mammal tracks, birds \u2026 but no otter! And there\u2019s a wonderful poem about the heron that \u201cmeasures the morning in slow, perfect strides\u201d \u2013 which perfectly captures the heron that stalks the river\u2019s edge nearby.<\/p>\n

I love Ruth Harper\u2019s artwork. Can\u2019t think of a medium more perfect for capturing the feel of wetlands than watercolors!<\/p>\n

Head over to Archimedes Notebook<\/a> for another book about our connections with nature, and some hands-on Beyond the Book activities.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

It’s STEM Friday!<\/a> (STEM<\/strong> is S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, and M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 Sue Heavenrich <\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Eric Ode; illus by Ruth Harper 32 pages; all ages Kane Miller Books \/ EDC Publishing, 2019 Will I find you here where cedar wears her mossy shawl\u00a0 With an otter as our guide, we meet the amphibians, mollusks, birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, and plants that inhabit a wetland. What I like about this … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Otters, Snails and Tadpole Tails”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-9P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":345,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/otters-snails-and-tadpole-tails\/","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":0},"title":"Otters, Snails and Tadpole Tails","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Otters, Snails and Tadpole Tails: Poems from the Wetlands by Eric Ode (Author) and Ruth Harper (Illustrator) Booktalk: An homage to all things wetland. 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