Zoom in on Zombies
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Category
- General
- Recommended Age
- 5 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- 5 to 8
- Recommended Reading age
- 7 to 9
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781554556083
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $26.95
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Description
A new look into a unique part of the natural world from the series that includes Buzz About Bees, Lowdown on Earthworms and Bite Into Bloodsuckers.
Co-authors Kari-Lynn Winters and Catherine Rondina delve into the world of zombies, the popular creatures of film and television. Along the way, they discover many examples of natural zombies in the real world from amber snails and carpenter ants to foot fungus, wood ticks and tardigrades.
Zoom in On Zombies helps young readers identify "zombies" in the world around us using quizzes, activities, fun sidebars and humorous trivia and stories. Chapters include:
- Zombies Among Us;
- Lame Brains and Other Zombie — Like Traits;
- Feeding Frenzy;
- Zombified; Dirty Rotters;
- Brain Dead;
- Zombie Moves;
- Survival of the Fittest and
- Zombie Allies.
About the authors
Kari-Lynn Winters is the author of Jeffrey and Sloth (2007), a picture book about the daunting task of overcoming writer's block, and The Meaning Maker, a children's play about reading strategies which is currently being toured throughout the Lower Mainland. A graduate of Canada's National Theatre School, she is currently performing with a Vancouver children's theatre group, The Tickle Trunk Players.
Kari has taught a range of students in Canada and the United States, including pre-school, special education, primary, intermediate, high school, and now university teacher education.
She is currently completing her Ph.D. in the Language and Literacy Department at UBC. Her research interests are children's literature, print literacy, and multimodal forms of learning.
Kari's website is www.kariwinters.com.
Kari-Lynn Winters' profile page
CATHERINE RONDINA is a columnist and reporter for publications such as City Parent, Good Times, Post City Magazines and Canadian Living. Her writing for children has appeared in educational anthologies, literacy workbooks for students, and she is the co-author of a guide to professional baseball for women. She lives in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto, with her husband and three children.
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