Snakes! (Time for Kids Series) »

The editors of TIME For Kids^® are committed to informing millions of kids about the world and their place in it. As part of a national news organization, they bring expert and age-appropriate reporting and photography from around the globe to books, classroom magazines, and a website.

The editors of TIME For Kids^® are frequent visitors to classrooms all over the country. And the TFK Kid Reporters have appeared on The Today Show, CBS Morning Show, CNN, and Fox News.

TFK editors also publish the TIME For Kids^® Science Scoops series, giving kids the inside scoop on the world’s most fascinating topics.

Large, dramatic photographs of a variety of snakes and a brief fact-filled text will fascinate young, confident readers.

Marilyn Courtot - Children's Literature

This new series of early readers, "Time for Kids Science Scoops," is taken from material prepared by the editors along with Lisa Jo Rudy. Like any other early reader series, the books are leveled—Level 1 is targeted for beginning readers, Level 2 for developing readers and Level 3 is designed for confident readers. The full-page photographs have text boxes superimposed, but the judicious layout of the text boxes is such that no important information is lost from the images. The books in the series are nonfiction and while the text is at times choppy and often just a litany of facts, they are interesting facts. Snakes can be found almost everywhere in the world—the exceptions being Ireland, New Zealand and the North and South Poles. This is not a book for those who may have an aversion to snakes, but if you are curious about snakes then there are plenty of pictures and facts to keep the pages turning. The Level 1 books contain a words to know picture glossary, while Level two also adds a section of interesting factoids entitled "Did You Know?" Level 3 adds even another small section of "Fun Facts." Snakes! is a Level 3 book, guided reading level N-O, Spache reading level 3.25. Lesson plans can be found at www.harperteachers.com. 2005, HarperCollins, Ages 6 to 8.