Winter Sleep

<DIV><B>In this cozy bedtime story, follow a child and his grandma through a winter landscape to explore how the Earth goes to sleep for winter.<BR/><BR/> Spot the sleeping animals as the tale unfolds</B>, then <B>learn about their hibernation habits</B> from the information pages at the end.<BR/><BR/> Co-authors Sean Taylor (picture book author) and Alex Morss (ecologist, journalist, and educator) offer <B>a gentle introduction to the concept of hibernation</B>. In the frosty, quiet forest, the snow blankets the ground and the trees have shed their leaves. Where have all the animals gone? Are they asleep too?<BR/><BR/> In <B>each cutaway scene</B>, see what the child cannot – that underground below his feet are <B>dens with sleeping creatures</B>, and <B>within the hollow trunks of trees, animals are nesting</B>. After the story, annotated illustrations explain the <B>hibernation facts for each animal</B> and what they will do when they wake up for spring.<BR/><BR/>