Here Is the African Savanna

By Madeleine Dunphy and Tom Leonard

Exotic environments like the African savanna have long held a fascination for young readers. This colorful picture book beautifully evokes that realm with images of giraffes, lions, hippos, elephants, and many more animals of the plains. Through cumulative, singsong verse, young readers learn how all living things in this important ecological community rely on one another for their existence. The book brings home the important lesson that when one of these animals or plants is killed off or goes extinct, the web of life is broken. Luminous paintings by Tom Leonard capture the untamed beauty of this timeless, endangered realm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Web of Life Children's Books
• Release date: Oct 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9780988330221

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Reviews for Here Is the African Savanna

[cindy_22_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Summary:This is a book about animals of the African Savannah, each page you turn adds a little more to the sentence. Which leads up to a whole rhyming type of paragraph.Personal Reaction:I thought it had good pictures, but it could have talked about each animal a little bit more then just what they do. Although it would be a great book for younger children to learn a little bit about these animals.Classroom Extension Ideas:1. You could have a unit over Africa and talk about the African Savannah and the animals in it.2. Find a movie the kids could watch to show how it really looks like.

[ht107821 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is a wonderful book that starts out with one specific animal then trails off to the next and next mapping out the circle of life for the students reading. It was a wonderful book with great illistrations and also some really good details in the book.This is an informational book and would be wonderful when talking about the circle of life or maybe even the African Savanna.Extention Ideas: Going on a Safari with your class and reading all types of books that might deal with the circle of life but also anything having to do with african savannas. This gets the children envolved in a fun way.