Creek Critters - Children's Book Review and Giveaway

Book Overview:

Do you like scavenger hunts? How do you tell if creek water is clean and healthy? Join Lucas and his sister as they act like scientists looking for certain kinds of stream bugs (aquatic macroinvertebrates) that need clean, unpolluted water to survive. What will they find as they turn over rocks, pick up leaves and sort through the mud? Read along to find out if their creek gets a passing grade.

CREEK CRITTERS® is a registered trademark of the Audubon Naturalist Society Of The Central Atlantic States, Inc. ANS’s CREEK CRITTERS mobile app helps people find and identify aquatic macroinvertebrates and report on stream health (www.anshome.org/creek-critters).

Written by Jennifer Keats Curtis, Illustrated by Phyllis Saroff

32 pg, Ages 4 - 8, 

My Review:

My kids are no strangers to creeks.  I've taken them there to play several times when they were young'uns.  There's a lot of interesting critters and foliage to find in creeks.  We always did it for fun, but there's a lot of learning facets to be found in creeks as well.

A Spring 2020 release by Arbordale Publishing, Creek Critters illustrates two siblings who work together to explore a freshwater creek.  While there, they learn about dragonflies, beetle larva, other creek critters.  With observation, they are able to learn if a creek is healthy.  

This books tells a story, but also gives readers the opportunity to explore and learn more with the 'For Creative Minds' section at the back of the book.  There's a segment that has readers matching young water bugs to their adult version.  There's also a portion that shows which critters can live in which kind of water.  (I found it personally interesting because I learned which ones are sensitive and which ones are tolerant to polluted water.)  There's also a 'Scientist's Field Notebook' that young readers can use to check stream water of their local creeks.  

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