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Pass the Energy, Please!

by Barbara Shaw McKinney
Chad Wallace
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Learning becomes fun with this book about the food chain and transfer of energy connecting all life on earth. Amazing artwork will inspire children in classrooms and at home to appreciate the world around us and feel part of it all.

Each of nature's creatures "passes the energy" in its own unique way. In this upbeat rhyming story, the food chain connects herbivores, carnivores, insects and plants together in a fascinating circle of players. All beings on Earth from the anchovy to the zooplankton depend upon the green plant, which is the hero of the story. Barbara McKinney's special talent shines again (see also A Drop Around the World) for being able to present the science curriculum so concisely, creatively, and cleverly.

Great for anyone looking for books:

  • to teach kids about the food web and transfer of energy.
  • that make learning fun for kids home schooling!

    • Creators

    • Publisher

    • Release date

      March 1, 2000

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Read

        • ISBN: 9781584692423

      • PDF ebook

        • ISBN: 9781584692225
        • File size: 2487 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Levels

      • ATOS Level: 5.4
      • Lexile® Measure: 1010
      • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
      • Text Difficulty: 4

    • Reviews

      • School Library Journal

        August 4, 2000
        Gr 1-5-McKinney presents the ecological food chain in a rhyming story. Couplets are frequently sketchy or vague. For example, in describing an owl, she writes, "Her wide yellow eyes, designed for the night,/get their glow from the reptile, captured in flight." Some rhymes are forced ("The vulture is known as a great opportunist/that preys on the fallen if finding it soonest") making the explanation of the links in the food chain even more confusing. Wallace's illustrations done in oil paints are large and colorful, showing fine details of birds, mammals, insects, and plants in their natural surroundings. There is no glossary to explain words such as "phytoplankton" and "zooplankton" and the rhymes that constitute the table of contents sacrifice understanding ("Link Number One-Born in the Sun"). Rice investigates the question of whether animals experience feelings such as compassion, loyalty, grief, deceitfulness, and love. Chapters are arranged by attribute. Although Calvert's illustrations are large and colorful, the text on each page is dense and daunting. Three out of 13 sources cited in the bibliography are old Reader's Digest articles (1964-79) with incomplete references. There is no table of contents, index, or glossary. All in all, there is not much coherent information in these titles.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA

        Copyright 2000 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • The Horn Book

        July 1, 2000
        The food chain in savanna, woodland, and other environments is explained with examples of increasing length, including the role of decomposers. The rhyming text is strained and unnecessary for the topic, and difficult terms such as "osmosis" and "photosynthesis" are left undefined. Sunny oil paintings are occasionally unsophisticated but show a variety of species.

        (Copyright 2000 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

    Formats

    • OverDrive Read
    • PDF ebook

    subjects

    Languages

    • English

    Levels

    • ATOS Level:5.4
    • Lexile® Measure:1010
    • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty:4

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