DK Readers L1: A Bed for the Winter

by Karen Wallace

Book Overview

A Bed for the Winter is the harrowing story of a little dormouse and his frantic search for a safe place to hibernate. For children who are just beginning to read and who have a limited vocabulary,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789457075
• ISBN13: 9780789457073
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

A real nature story book!

This is a fun and educational early reader that children will want to read again and again. A little dormouse is searching for a safe and warm place to spend the winter, and her search lets the reader explore the kinds of homes used by other animals. A cute squirrel, a toad, a huge bear, bunnies, etc., all have a place to bed down. At last, the mouse finds the perfect place! A Bed For Winter has wonderful photos of animals and a picture word list for review. This book is a valuable teaching tool.

Depite Bear on the cover, this is the story of a Dormouse

Don't be fooled by the bear on the cover--this book is not about a bear getting ready for winter hibernation, though it does mention that in passing. This is the story of a Dormouse looking for a place to spend the winter. She looks in on many other animals getting their animal homes ready for the changing season (burrows and nests and such--a true to life story, not a fantasy tale such as "Peter Rabbit") and has a close encounter with a snake as a cold rain closes in. Not quite as engaging as some of the other titles in the DK Level 1 Readers ("Duckling Days" and "Born to be a Butterfly" come to mind in the animal life category), but still enjoyed. As with others it has words featured in pictures within pictures, and these words also make it into a one-page picture dictionary at the end of the book. A note to the adults making this purchase on the behalf of beginning readers: DK Level 1 Readers are more complex than most other Level 1 readers, featuring multi-syllable words ("dormouse", for example) and complex sentences common to most series' Level 2.