Melissa Stewart
Summertime Sleepers: Animals That Estivate
Stealth Science
Why this book counts
- Life Science
- Environment & Ecology
- Story / Adventure
- Lyrical / Visual Picture Book
- Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
Twelve animals become summertime sleepers when heat, dryness, food shortage, or rising body temperature makes remaining active costly. Layered text and watercolor scrapbook pages turn estivation into a surprising tour across species rather than a definition followed by examples.
The science inside
- Animals & Zoology
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Ecosystems
Your child will meet:
- Estivation is a period of reduced activity during hot or dry conditions.
- Dormancy can conserve water and energy or help an animal avoid dangerous body temperatures.
- Estivation and winter hibernation are related survival responses but occur under different seasonal pressures.
- Different animals enter, maintain, and end dormancy in different ways.
Use it this way
Parent effort: Quick discussion
A 2022 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Everyone knows about animals that hibernate in the winter. But it's time to discover animals that sleep all summer long! All science classrooms discuss animals that hibernate during winter months, but few know about animals that estivate--a prolonged sleep during hot or dry periods. Dual layers of text awaken readers to the reasons estivating animals become dormant--whether it's because warm weather threatens food supply or to avoid increased body temperatures. From the ladybug to the salamander, from the lungfish to the desert hedgehog, twelve estivating animals and their habits--both when sleeping and awake--are explained through clear text and elegant watercolor illustrations that create a scrapbook feel.
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