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Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks
Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks
Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks
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Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks

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What animal was here? Can you solve the mystery? Study the picture and read the clues to figure out who left each set of tracks. Then turn the page to find out about animals from around the world. Watercolor and collage illustrations show the many kinds of trails that animals leave behind in mud, snow, and sand.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2014
ISBN9781467766159
Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks
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Mia Posada

Mia Posada grew up in Minneapolis, then studied art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also studied art in Florence, Italy, and illustration at Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California. Mia has written and illustrated numerous books including: The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit's Amazing Migration, Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks, and Summer Green to Autumn Gold: Uncovering Leaves' Hidden Colors. She illustrated Plants Can't Sit Still which was named a Kirkus Best Children's Books and won the NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts Award. She lives in Golden Valley, Minnesota with her husband and their three kids.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Attractive and informative, a good blend of facts and verse.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Life-size animal tracks from around the world coupled with rhyming verse ask kids the question 'who was here?' After the animal is revealed, there is information about the animal including it's size, diet and why it tracks look the way they do. Kids ages 6-9 enjoyed guessing which animals made the tracks, some were challenging since animals from around the world were included; but, this made for a great opportunity to learn about something different. I especially liked when two footprints of animals that have relationships were combined, such as predator-prey or mutualism. In the back of the book there are tips for finding and identifying your own animal tracks.This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Author/illustrator Mia Posada explores the world of animal tracks in this engaging and informative work of picture-book natural history. The book alternates between two-page spreads showing a particular animal track, with rhyming text giving clues as to the animal's identity, as well as an invitation to guess which creature it is, and two-page spreads giving the answer, with a prose text that provides more information about the animal in question. A brief afterword gives suggestions to young people, in looking for animal tracks themselves, as well as a list of further reading ideas...Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks is a well-formatted book, presenting its information in such a way that children will remain interested and engaged. The poetic hints, and the repeated question, "Who Was Here?," keep the child reader and listener involved in the reading process. The hints themselves contain information that will possibly allow the reader to guess the identity of the animal, even if they don't recognize the track in question. The accompanying artwork, done in watercolor and collage, is very appealing, and adds to the pleasure of reading the book. I was tickled, moreover, to see that Posada listed Jim Arnosky's Wild Tracls! A Guide to Nature's Footprints in her list of further reader, as Arnosky is, of course, the master of picture-book natural history. Recommended to all the young animal and nature lovers out there.

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