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The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures
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The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures Paperback - 2000

by Herbert R. Kohl; Judith Kohl; Roger Bayless (Illustrator)

"The View from the Oak", winner of the National Book Award for children's literature, is a groundbreaking work from two of the most respected educators, teaching readers the wonders of science and the natural world. A classic exploration of ethology, or the way animals perceive their environment. Line drawings.


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Winner of the National Book Award for children's literature, The View from the Oak is a groundbreaking work of ethology--the study of the way animals perceive the environment--from two of America's most respected educators. With this new, illustrated edition, The New Press brings back into print this classic exploration of the strange but marvelous ways in which living creatures experience space, sense time, and communicate with each other.

What do flowers in a meadow look like to a bee? How does the world appear to a snake who sees' by detecting minute temperature changes? What is it like to live in the water strider's two-dimensional universe? Including hands-on games and activities, The View from the Oak helps readers enter into the fascinating, often invisible world of nature. It is a superb book for families to share (Winston-Salem Journal).


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  • Title The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures
  • Author Herbert R. Kohl; Judith Kohl; Roger Bayless (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 97
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York
  • Date October 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781565846364 / 1565846362
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.19 x 7.53 x 0.41 in (23.34 x 19.13 x 1.04 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 15 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 10
  • Library of Congress subjects Animals, Senses and sensation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 76057680
  • Dewey Decimal Code 591.028

About the author

Herbert Kohl is a celebrated writer, teacher, and advocate. He is the author of more than forty books, including I Won't Learn from You: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment, Should We Burn Babar?: Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories, The Discipline of Hope: Learning from a Lifetime of Teaching, Stupidity and Tears: Teaching and Learning in Troubled Times, She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and The Herb Kohl Reader: Awakening the Heart of Teaching (all published by The New Press), as well as the bestselling classic 36 Children. He is a co-author, with Judith Kohl, of The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures and a co-editor, with Tom Oppenheim, of The Muses Go to School: Inspiring Stories About the Importance of Arts in Education, both published by The New Press. A recipient of a National Book Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, he was the founder and first director of the Teachers and Writers Collaborative in New York City, has served as a senior fellow at the Open Society Institute, and established the PEN West Center. In 2010, Kohl was named a Guggenheim Fellow in education. He lives in Point Arena, California. Judith Kohl is the coauthor of Pack Band and Colony and of The Long Haul.
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