| Salmon Forest Contributor(s): Suzuki, David (Author), Ellis, Sarah (Author), Lott, Sheena (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1553651634 ISBN-13: 9781553651635 Publisher: Greystone Kids OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: One fall day, Kate goes with her father, a fish biologist, to the river where he works -- a river in the Pacific rain forest -- the "salmon forest, " as he calls it. Together they watch the sockeye salmon returning to the river to spawn, and witness a bear scooping up a salmon. Next, Kate and her dad run into a Native boy named Brett and his family fishing at a pool in the river. From her adventures, Kate discovers how the forest and the salmon need each other and why the forest is called the salmon forest. David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis's charming and informative text and Sheena Lott's watercolors magically evoke the spirit and mystery of the West Coast rain forest. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Fish |
| Dewey: E |
| LCCN: 2002043944 |
| Lexile Measure: 640 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.9" W x 9.8" (0.40 lbs) 32 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 69839 Reading Level: 3.2 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One fall day, Kate goes with her father, a fish biologist, to the river where he works a river in the Pacific rain forest the salmon forest, as he calls it. Together they watch the sockeye salmon returning to the river to spawn, and witness a bear scooping up a salmon. Next, Kate and her dad run into a Native boy named Brett and his family fishing at a pool in the river. From her adventures, Kate discovers how the forest and the salmon need each other and why the forest is called the salmon forest. David Suzuki and Sarah Ellis s charming and informative text and Sheena Lott s watercolors magically evoke the spirit and mystery of the West Coast rain forest." |