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A Temperate Forest Food Chain: A Who-Eats-What Adventure in North America
64 pp.
| Lerner |
March, 2009 |
LibraryISBN 978-0-8225-7496-5$30.60
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4-6Follow That Food Chain series.
Readers select a "tertiary consumer" and track that animal's food intake. They then choose which secondary and primary consumers, producers, and decomposers to learn more about. Though the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure approach is confusing, it effectively emphasizes food web interdependency. Photos are carefully chosen and helpful; busy graphics are distracting. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind. Review covers these Follow That Food Chain titles: A Desert Food Chain, A Savanna Food Chain, and A Temperate Forest Food Chain.