An exciting journey of science discovery is as near as your own backyard. Just one small square is alive with creepers and crawlers, lifters and leapers, singers, buzzers, climbers, builders, and recyclers. Backyard invites children ages 7 and up to become nature lovers by looking, listening, touching, and smelling the world from the ground up! From the unique One Small Square series of science acitivity books. . .where children can explore exotic and familiar ecosystems in detail, one small square at a time.

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by McGraw-Hill Education - Europe .

Rob DeSalle is a molecular biologist in the Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History. Paticia J Wynne is an award winning illustrator and artist.

This book has the following chapters: Introduction. The Food Makers. Guests for Dinner. Life Cyclers. Out in the Cold. Making a Living. Definitely Not a Golf Ball. Night Life. Litter ``Bugs''. Watch Out for Traps! More Than Just Dirt.