Looking Closely Through the Forest is an educational children's picture book that gets kids looking closer at the things around them.
You can go through life without ever looking closely at the things that surround you. However, you'll be missing the beauty and wonder that surrounds you at every step. Looking Closely Through the Forest by Frank Serafini (Kids Can Press, ISBN: 1-55453-212-4) gets young children, ages 4 to 7, looking closely at the beauty of the forest.
At each step and turn, you might find colorful leaves, unusual mushrooms, or strange looking bugs. In Looking Closely Through the Forest, kids will first see each wonder as a closeup photo. They then take a guess at what the photo is showing. Turn the page, and the object of the closeup photograph is revealed along with facts about the item.
Children will get to learn about the sugar maple leaf, the sego lily, spotted toadstools, Aspen trees, the yellow-spotted millipede, turkey tail fungus, frost, pinecones, and green frogs.
The photographs by Frank Serafini are absolutely stunning and beckon the reader to venture out into the forest. The text that accompanies the photographs is equally interesting, with facts about the forest that even adults can enjoy.
Looking Closely Through the Forest makes a great book to read before or after a nature walk and it makes a good science book for young readers.
