Learn Fun Facts & Explore Awesome Nocturnal Animal Features with The Nocturnals! Award-Winning Nonfiction Early Reader for Kids Ages 6?8 with Over 60 Full-Color Animal Photos. "A worthy addition to school and public libraries" ?School Library Journal This nonfiction book uses fun facts and a narrative from the adventurous Nocturnals characters?Dawn the fox, Tobin the pangolin, and Bismark the sugar glider?to introduce nighttime animal features and their habitats.
- Kids explore awesome athletic abilities, sensational senses, powerful protections, and more!
- Teachers use the book in life science units as a stand alone or with the companion fiction.
- Librarians use the nonfiction book during read aloud storytime with the companion fiction.
- Award Winner! Children's Book Council Teacher Favorites 2023
- Awesome animals from around the world: sugar gliders, pangolins, foxes, bats, snakes, possums, wombats, chinchillas, and kinkajous
- Animal Glossary with over 60 full-color photos
- Word Glossary to build STEM vocabulary
- At-Home Science Resources
- Nonfiction Interactive Read-Aloud Guide available on our website
- Can be used as a narrative read or browseable reference material.
- Book is aligned to NGSS & CCSS ELA
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Tracey Hecht is a writer and the creative director of Fabled Films Press. She created The Nocturnals, the critically acclaimed middle-grade and early reader series. The American Booksellers Association chose her first book, The Mysterious Abductions, as a Kids' Indie Next List pick, and her nonfiction book Nighttime Animals: Awesome Features & Surprising Adaptations received the Children's Book Council Teacher Favorites Award in 2023. In partnership with the New York Public Library, she created a Read Aloud Writing Program that has since been conducted in hundreds of schools, libraries, and bookstores. She attends Bank Street College, where she is studying to receive a dual master's degree in childhood general education and special education. Tracey splits her time between New York City and Oquossoc, Maine.