“Lively, engaging writing…entice[s] a broad audience.” –School Library Journal
(as Rebecca Hogue Wojahn, with Donald Wojahn)
Lerner Publications,a 12-book series
Grades 3-5
64 pages each
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An interactive, nonlinear nonfiction series about food webs in different habitats. After reading about an animal, you choose what it eats. Your choices weave a route through the habitat’s food web. But pay attention–you may end up where you never expected to be. And watch out for those dead ends!
Why I Wrote This Story
Although I’ve never been a lion on the African savanna or a fiddler crab in a mangrove forest, there’s a lot of me in this book. Or maybe a lot of my kids. This series grew out of their never-ending questions:
“What do anacondas eat, Mom?”
“Capybaras? Deer? Peccaries? What do they eat?”
“Plants? What kinds of plants? What do they look like?”
And so on. As we say in the dedication, we hope these books answer some of their questions.
What People Are Saying
“The interconnections created by the choices effectively illustrate the complexity of food webs while providing information about the plants and animals that form the components. Lively, engaging writing helps…entice a broad audience to learn about life in unfamiliar places.”
— Kathy Piehl, Minnesota State University, Mankato, School Library Journal
“This bright colorful book will attract young readers. The format will hold the reader’s interest as he or she moves through the book following the notes. This is a great way to teach about the importance of food chains.”
— Donald Logsdon, Jr., National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Recommends
“It’s no coincidence that the food “chain” bordering most of the interior spreads resembles a game board. In fact, each volume in the Follow That Food Chain series is organized like a nonfiction choose-your-own adventure game…most will enjoy this unique interactive method.”
— Daniel Kraus, Booklist – Spotlight on New Books for Youth on the Environment
Read an interview about Follow That Food Chain in Volume One, our local arts/entertainment magazine. Click on the right “Related in Print” link to see some pages.
