Looking Closely Inside the Garden By Frank Serafini Kids Can Press 2008
The format is the same as the others in the series. Please
refer to the review of
“Looking Closely Along the Shore”
for details.
Though the format is the same, there is one important
difference in this book. Since we have urbanized kids, the other habitats that
are treated in this series may be more or less abstractions. Students may not have had a chance to visit
the forest or the desert, and though they live in San Francisco, they may not
be intimately familiar with the seashore.
The objects that are covered in this book are more likely to
be extraordinarily familiar to urbanized kids. These are objects that the kids
have seen up close, touched, and felt many times. Whether it is in the context
of school gardening programs, playing in the park, or on a lawn, or even a
random patch of dirt, students have extensive background knowledge and
experience with the contents of this book.
However, this familiarity does not mean that the close up
photos are readily apparent. Some require a bit of thought and imagination to
guess correctly – even when the object is very familiar. I strongly feel that
this further drives home the point that there in wonder inherent in the details
that are all around you.
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