are you ready for fall

TM Learn all about the different seasons in the Our Four Seasons series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books TM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books TM bring nonfiction topics to life! Our Four Seasons Are You Ready for Fall? Are You Ready for Spring? Are You Ready for Summer? Are You Ready for Winter? Anderson LERNER Leaves are changing colors. The days are getting cooler. Farmers harvest crops. It’s time to carve a pumpkin! Do you know what season is here? It’s fall! What else happens in fall? Read this book to find out! THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Lerner Publications Company Minneapolis s Sheila Anderson TO COME Copyright © 2010 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Lerner Publications Company A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. Website address: www.lernerbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anderson, Sheila. Are You Ready for Fall? / by Sheila M. Anderson. p. cm. — (Lightning bolt books TM – Our four seasons) Includes index. ISBN 978–0–7613–4586–2 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 1. Autumn —Juvenile literature. I. Title. QB637.7.A53 2010 508.2—dc22 2009016408 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 – BP – 12/15/09 To Abigail Chiaokhiao eISBN 978-0-7613-5964-7 Contents page 30 page 32 Sights and Sounds of Fall page 8 Fall Weather page 14 Fall Activities Index Glossary page 28 Why Do Leaves Change Color? page 18 The Fall World page 23 Winter Is Coming page 31 Further Reading page 4 4 Crunch! Crunch! What is making that sound? Someone is walking through crisp, dry leaves. Sounds and of Fall Sights F a l l i s h e r e . 5 Squirrels hop about, swishing their bushy tails. They gather smooth, brown acorns. Their cheeks are puffed up like popcorn balls. F a l l i s h e r e . Squirrels collect acorns and hide them in tree trunks. 6 Leaves on trees turn bright yellow, flame orange, and vibrant red. They glow in the bright sunlight. 7 Grass turns yellow. Plants and flowers turn brown and shrivel on their stems and branches. This sunflower has turned dry and brown. 8 Wind whooshes through the trees. Dead leaves float and spiral as they blow to the ground. Fall Weather Dead leaves blow into a pond. [...]... Lightning Bolt BooksTM collection With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt BooksTM bring nonfiction topics to life! Our Four Seasons Are Are Are Are You You You You Ready Ready Ready Ready for for for for Fall? Spring? Summer? Winter? ... iStockphoto.com/Olivier Blondeau (top right); © Johner/Johner Images/Getty Images (bottom) 32 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Leaves are changing colors The days are getting cooler Farmers harvest crops It’s time to carve a pumpkin! Do you know what season is here? It’s fall! What else happens in fall? Read this book to find out! TM Learn all about the different seasons in the Our Four Seasons series—part of the... long pants when they go outdoors Better zip up your jacket! 10 The air is dry A chilly breeze blows my hair Be sure to wear a sweater on a cool fall day 11 An icy layer of white frost coats the grass and leaves on the ground 12 The frost disappears before lunchtime In the afternoon, it’s warm enough to play outside without a heavy coat 13 Fall Activities When fall arrives, children go back to school It... to a new home 22 Winter Is Coming Soon, days begin to get shorter It gets dark earlier 23 The temperature begins to drop Can you see your breath? 24 Animals grow thick winter coats This wolf has grown a warm, shaggy coat for the winter 25 Birds begin flying south Temperatures are warmer there Flocks of Canada geese fly in the shape of the letter v 26 Winter is on its way 27 Why Do Leaves Change Color?... garden 16 Farmers harve st c ro ps m fro ir fi the elds 17 The Fall World Bears eat lots of berries and leaves They grow fat enough to survive while they hibernate through the winter They won’t eat again until spring 18 Other animals hide food to eat during the winter months Beavers store twigs and bark to eat during the winter 19 Pumpkins are bright orange and plump on their vines 20 Pumpkins lie in... Plants make food from water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide (a gas in the air) Chlorophyll helps them to do this When fall arrives, the chlorophyll in leaves breaks down Then the green color in the leaves goes away Reds, yellows, and oranges appear 28 Bright reds, yellows, and oranges are in leaves all year long But in spring and summer, chlorophyll covers them up! 29 Glossary acorn: the seed of an oak... Further Reading Ehlert, Lois Leaf Man Orlando, Fl.: Harcourt, 2005 Enchanted Learning: Earth’s Seasons http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ astronomy/planets/earth/seasons.shtml Glaser, Linda It’s Fall! Minneapolis: Millbrook Press, 2002 Spinelli, Eileen I Know It’s Autumn New York: HarperCollins, 2004 Stein, David Ezra Leaves New York: G P Putnam’s Sons, 2007 31 Index acorns, 5 activities, 14–17... 17 frost, 12–13 rake, 9 temperature, 24, 26 harvest, 16–17 hibernate, 18 vegetables, 16 leaves, 4, 6, 8–9, 12, 18, 28–29 warm clothes, 10 weather, 8, 10–13 Photo Acknowledgments The images in this book are used with the permission of: © iStockphoto.com/Skip O'Donnell, p 1; © Petr Gnuskin/Dreamstime.com, p 2; © Adam Weiss/Taxi/Getty Images, p 4; © Georgette Douwma/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images, p . life! Our Four Seasons Are You Ready for Fall? Are You Ready for Spring? Are You Ready for Summer? Are You Ready for Winter? Anderson LERNER Leaves are changing colors. The days are getting cooler www.lernerbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Anderson, Sheila. Are You Ready for Fall? / by Sheila M. Anderson. p. cm. — (Lightning bolt books TM – Our four seasons) . 30 page 32 Sights and Sounds of Fall page 8 Fall Weather page 14 Fall Activities Index Glossary page 28 Why Do Leaves Change Color? page 18 The Fall World page 23 Winter Is Coming page