Welcome to the Backyard

By Ruth Owen

Readers explore a backyard habitat and discover how garden animals and plants form an ecosystem and rely on each other for survival.

This title cleverly takes young readers on a mini safari through a backyard making connections between the living things that call it home. For example: As aphids suck nectar from the stems of plants, a ladybird leaves its winter hiding place to start munching on aphids. As worms wriggle through the soil helping to bring nutrients and rainwater to the roots of the garden's trees, a robin hunts for worms to feed to its chicks.

- Packed with curriculum science information
- See how backyard animals make their homes and what they eat.
- Learn about the life cycles of some common mammals and birds
- Discover how insects pollinate plants
- Controlled vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure
- Beautiful, labelled photographs throughout
- Close photo/text match
- Includes a backyard food web diagram

Filled with facts about the natural world, this title is perfect for students studying habitats, animal and plant life cycles, and ecosystems.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910549622
• ISBN13: 9781910549629
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Ruby Tuesday Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4