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Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors (2010)

by Joyce Sidman(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0618717196 (ISBN13: 9780618717194)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: I thought the book was interesting because it included a wide variety of topics. I enjoyed the poem about coyotes and ants. Some of the poems seemed strange because of their topics such as dandelions and bacteria. The poem about Mollusks was a little strange as well because of how it was written. I think the book did a good job at including different life forms. I would use this book in my classroom by reading a select few, and even doing a shared reading with the poem about crows.
review 2: By the creators of SONG OF THE WATER BOATMAN & OTHER POND POEMS comes UBIQUITOUS. The book follows a similar layered nonfiction structure with poem and prose about species who have survived from bacteria, to human beings. Added to the structure is a classification notation,... more the age of the species and its size. (EX: MOLLUSKS, Phylum Mollusca,- 500 million years old, 9 inches, 23 centimeters) The poems sing with beautiful figurative language, thoughtful structure, and readable rhyme. The illustrations leap off the page with saturated colors that set the mood for each species. Especially unique, are the end papers which show a timeline (swirled and folded in on itself like the tubes of a French horn) from the formation of the Earth 4.6 billion years ago to today. less

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