The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Wallace, Karen

A Bed for the Winter

32 pp. | DK | July, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-7894-5706-7 $$12.95 | Paper ISBN 0-7894-5707-5 $$3.95

(4) K-3 Dorling Kindersley Readers series. Searching for a place to hibernate, a dormouse encounters a variety of animals preparing for winter, including a squirrel, a wasp, a bat colony, and a deer. After an owl and a snake threaten her, she increases her efforts to find a safe home. The integration of nonfiction and narrative formats, despite the staged color photos, makes the book informative and mildly suspenseful. A picture word list at the end will help readers with new vocabulary.

Reviewer: Jim St. Claire