A Tiny Habitats Book
by Amy Hevron
Illustrations by the author
Beach Lane Books
An imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division
2024
48 pages
ISBN: 9781665934985
Log life introduces readers to tiny habitats in the Pacific Northwest where giant evergreen trees can live up to 1,000 years before they fall in the forest. It takes hundreds of years for these trees to decompose, but while decomposing they become habitats for a number of plants and animals. They will become nurse logs.
Nurse logs feed and house creatures from insects to birds and rodents, snails, frogs and salamanders. One giant tree feeds an entire system for decades.
Illustrations entertain and educate about plant and animal life. It is a hopeful book as it shows how one tree can fall, but still offer so much life. In fact, new fir trees can sprout and begin their cycle for the next thousand years. Various animals are featured at the end in a two-page spread that readers will study again and again. Young readers may play at finding and identifying each type of animal in the early pages.
A page about nurse-log habitats is included. Complete with selected sources and additional reading sources, this is a non-fiction treasure to own!
Highly recommended for any fan of non-fiction books and kids who love ecology, animals and forests.
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