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The Listening Walk
Contributor(s): Showers, Paul (Author), Aliki (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0064433226 ISBN-13: 9780064433228
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1993
Annotation: On a listening walk with her father, a little girl awakens to the many unexpected sounds of their neighborhood. First published in 1961, this brand new edition features vibrant illustrations by award-winning artist Aliki. Full color.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Concepts - Senses & Sensation
- Juvenile Fiction | Concepts - Sounds
- Juvenile Fiction | Science & Nature - General

Dewey: E

LCCN: 90030526

Age Level: 4-8

Grade Level: PreK-3

Lexile Measure: 480(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.12" H x 7.72" W x 10.62" L (0.28 lbs) 32 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Family

Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 17536
Reading Level: 2.3 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

With art by home and classroom favorite Aliki, The Listening Walk will remind both adults and kids of the wonders all around them...if they slow down and listen.

"A fine resource for studying the senses."--Booklist

Put on your socks and shoes--and don't forget your ears We're going on a listening walk. Shhhhh. Do not talk. Do not hurry. Get ready to fill your ears with a world of wonderful and surprising sounds.

A little girl and her father take a quiet walk and identify the sounds around them. Soon the girl discovers an extraordinary world of sounds in her everyday environment.

Contributor Bio(s): Showers, Paul: - Paul Showers wrote twenty books for the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including favorites such as What Happens to a Hamburger? and Where Does the Garbage Go? Mr. Showers worked on the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald Tribune, and for thirty years, the Sunday New York Times. Aliki: -

With more than 60 fiction and nonfiction titles for children to her credit, Aliki has been delighting her many fans since her first book was published in 1960. Born in New Jersey, she now lives in New York City.

Aliki's books for young readers include the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out titles Digging Up Dinosaurs, Fossils Tell of Long Ago, My Feet, and My Hands. Other nonfiction books by Aliki include How a Book Is Made, Mummies Made in Egypt, My Visit to the Aquarium, My Visit to the Dinosaurs, My Visit to the Zoo, Wild and Woolly Mammoths, and William Shakespeare & the Globe.