Nature Explained: A Family Guide to 20 Nature Cycles

Gr 3-6–This book takes a unique and highly visual approach to explaining the cycles of the natural world. The book covers trees, leaves, flowers, seeds, mushrooms, and seasons. Each spread presents a different natural cycle within those categories. Readers are provided with arrows to follow as they journey through the illustrations of each cycle. Topics both familiar and unfamiliar are covered in a succinct and easy-to-understand way. Kids will come across the water cycle, photosynthesis, and pollination but also fascinating lesser-known cycles, such as carnivorous plant-snapping traps and parasitic fungi symbiosis. The illustrations are colorful and inviting and show a good amount of detail. The book will catch the eye of browsers but provides enough information report-writers should find it useful as well. There is no index, but the back matter does include a glossary and a short list of titles for further reading.