| Silkworms Contributor(s): Johnson, Sylvia A. (Author), Kishida, Isao (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0822595575 ISBN-13: 9780822595571 Publisher: First Avenue Editions (Tm) OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1989 Annotation: Supports the national science education standards Unifying Concepts and Processes: Systems, Order, and Organization; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Form and Function; and Life Science as outlined by the National Academics of Science and endorsed by the National Science Teachers Association. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Agriculture - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Butterflies, Moths & Caterpillars - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Zoology |
| Dewey: 638 |
| LCCN: 82000250 |
| Series: Lerner Natural Science Books |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 7.26" W x 8.66" (0.30 lbs) 48 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Silkworms are not actually worms at all. They are the caterpillars of a large white moth. Many moth caterpillars produce silk thread inside their bodies, but the thread of the silkworm is so fine and strong that human beings use it to make a beautiful fabric. In countries like Japan, people raise millions of silkworms on farms and take their thread to be processed into silk cloth. Readers of this book will find out how silk farmers process silk and what role this amazing thread plays in the life cycle of the silkworm moth. |