The Nocturnals Nighttime Animals: Awesome Features & Surprising Adaptations: Nonfiction Early Reader - Hardcover

by Tracey Hecht (Author)

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.

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

Author Biography

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.