Count Down to Fall

by Fran Hawk

Book Overview

Cuenta regresiva del diez al uno durante una de las temporadas m?s coloridas del a?o, el oto?o. Aprende sobre las hojas brillosas y sobre los ?rboles de los cuales caen: el ?lamo, el abedul, el maple,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607188651
• ISBN13: 9781607188650
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.1" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Colorful, Great Rhyming Fun

Purchased at a national park gift shop. The kids love it. This is a favorite read several times a week. Wonderful to see my children at the park in search of the leaves and seeds they have discovered in this book. So pleased we purchased a copy as a gift for teacher's classroom library.

Stories for Children Magazine 5 Star Review

What is your favorite time of year? For many people, and perhaps plants and animals too, it is fall. Begin with ten sweet gum leaves, then go through nine dogwood leaves, eight beech leaves, seven pine cones, six linden leaves, five chestnut leaves, four oak leaves, three maple leaves, and two birch leaves, and finally end up with one quaking aspen leaf. Through Fran Hawk's poetic text youngsters will be introduced to the idea of counting down from ten, and from Sherry Neidigh's true-to-life illustrations they will also be able to see various kinds of trees and learn how to identify them by the shapes of their leaves, along with the raccoons, opossums, cats, squirrels, bears, turtles, chipmunks, owls, deer, and beavers that need the trees to live. The "For Creative Minds" section at the back of Count Down to Fall has several activities related to plant parts, leaf shapes, and the ways in which leaves change color in the fall, as well as further information on how both animals and people depend on plants. As with other Sylvan Dell books, there are "Related Websites," "Interactive Quizzes," and other "Teaching Activities" on the website to help parents and educators expand the learning possibilities. This is a wonderful way for students to learn about how plants and animals prepare for the approaching winter chill.

fall library

This is a good language resource for Fall. There are great pictures and this book generates a lot of language opportunities.

A lesson about leaves

Reviewed by Cayden Aures (age 5) and Mom for Reader Views (8/09) "Count Down to Fall" is a book that teaches about different kinds of leaves and presents other nature-related information while counting down from ten to one. Cayden: "I liked seeing how the different leaves have different shapes. It was fun how they counted backwards in the book too. The drawings in the book were cool. I liked how you could see all of the hairs on the animals. The part at the end when we talked about the different plant parts was fun too." Parent's comments: "Count Down to Fall" by Fran Hawk is another wonderful Sylvan Dell educational nature book. I love how much both my son and I learn from reading these books! The "For Creative Minds" section at the end of the book and the corresponding links and teaching activities on the website make for a very well-rounded lesson on the subject at hand. The illustrations by Sherry Neidigh in "Countdown to Fall" were beautiful and very detailed and we loved the descriptive verse. I look forward to many more titles from this publisher!

Creative and educational

A young girl, boy and their dog smile with delight as they sit beneath an oak tree watching the colorful leaves drift to the ground. Very soon there will be too many for them to count as during the fall season they gather in piles at the base of the trees. But there are other creatures counting down the increasingly chilly fall days as they prepare for winter. Ten, nine, eight... "Seven pine cones, and needles too, pile on the ground for squirrels to chew." Animals scamper around preparing for winter. There are raccoons, opossums, squirrels, a brown bear, an Eastern Box Turtle, chipmunks, a couple of spotted owls, a buck and his mate, a cottontail rabbit, a cardinal and a woodpecker. A cat is perched in the beech tree eying the whole process while even the tiniest of creatures get ready to migrate or hibernate. Many different kinds of brightly colored autumn leaves are now mixed on the ground. Can you find and name them? This is a marvelous, whimsical and delightfully comforting book that counts down to winter in a lovely manner. I was enchanted from the first page to the last and anyone who decides to purchase this book will have the same experience. This is not a simple picture book, but one in which there are many ecological and natural lessons to be learned. In the back of the book is a lesson on plant parts, a mini quiz on leave shapes, a page on the uses of plants and leaf matching exercise. Additional educational activities relevant to this book can by found on the publisher's website [...]. Quill says: If you're looking for a creative, educational counting book you can count on this one to provide a top notch experience!