A Bed for the Winter by Dorling Kindersley

A Bed for the Winter Reviews

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  Sandy

  I have to start by saying that there’s a lot of words in this book for a Level 1 Reader book which surprised me. The types of words included in this book, surprised me too. Words like: meadow, squeezed, rotten, scurries, trembles, burrow, meadow, shivers, trapped, slither, etc. I have been looking at Level 1 Reader books and this book is at the top for the number of words it has and the difficult words that it uses. If you go by Levels, this is just a heads-up.
  
  I think this book is great. There is a lot of fantastic information inside these pages from wasps, to squirrels, to bats, to owls so if you’re looking for some easy-to-understand information on winter life for animals this is a great find. Easy to read? I’m not so sure on the Level 1 assignment. In this book, a dormouse is looking for a place to sleep for the winter so he investigates a variety of places until he finds his finally resting spot for the winter. Each time he goes someplace to settle down, he finds another creature and we, as readers, learn what the dormouse discovered and how that the creature lives during the winter. This I found to be interesting information.
  
  Going into a cave, the dormouse discovers some bats clinging to a rock. Huddling together, these bats will sleep all winter. The cave is damp and cold, too cold for the dormouse so it leaves to find another spot. He sure is a busy dormouse and he covers a lot of ground looking for the right spot. The illustrations are photographs which are terrific and take up a lot of the page. I think the photographs add quite a bit to the book. I think this is an excellent book but, in my world, not really a Level 1 Reader.
  
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  Logan Marshall

  Genre: Informational Nonfiction
  Grade: K-1
  This is a good informational book that shows different animals. It would help younger students learn about animals and where they live and what they do when winter comes. I like how it has different pictures of the animals and also there is a small picture on most pages of the habitat that these animals live in. It is a simple yet detailed book about different animals and it is really good.
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  Lana Kamennof-sine

  An excellent book that follows a dormouse on her search for a bed for the winter. She encounters 9 different animals & we're given a peek at their choice of home. Wonderful photos, an easy win to engage young readers.
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  Eva Kelly

  This is one of those fact books that looks like a story. And it was real good.
  You know what? This one had so many good words that they couldn't even fit them all in the list at the end. Like "slithers." And "shivers" and "scurries." Lots of good "S" words.
  And I had no idea what a dormouse was but there he is, and he's cute. You'd think with his name he'd live indoors, but that has an extra O.
  Good thing he didn't come in OUR house or he'd be a MORRISVILLE mouse!
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  Kaitlin Moriarty

  This book is an informational book and is part of Westfield's reading street curriculum to teach hibernation and winter habitats in Kindergarten. I think that this book is very explicit and it has vocabulary words in boxes with the picture associated to the word. I think it is a great book for this age group.
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  Erma Talamante

  A good introduction to reading, vocabulary, and the winter in this story about a dormouse trying to find the best house for the winter. My toddler loved matching the vocabulary words with their pictures, and I loved that she is increasing her understanding of words in a way that she responds to.
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  Anna

  The door mouse didn't find a home until the end and he almost got eaten by an owl and a snake.