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Summary
In one lifetime, a caribou will shed 10 sets of antlers, a woodpecker will drill 30 roosting holes, a giraffe will wear 200 spots, a seahorse will birth 1,000 babies.
Count each one and many more while learning about the wondrous things that can happen in just one lifetime. This extraordinary book collects animal information not available anywhere else--and shows all 30 roosting holes, all 200 spots, and, yes!, all 1,000 baby seahorses in eye-catching illustrations. A book about picturing numbers and considering the endlessly fascinating lives all around us, Lifetime is sure to delight young nature lovers.
Author Notes
Lola Schaefer is an author, teacher, speaker and writing consultant who is passionate about helping children learn the tools of writing so they can express themselves.
Lola is the author of more than 200 books for children including picture books, easy readers, classroom books and informational texts. Her book Frankie Stein, published by Marshall Cavendish in 2007, was awarded the Children's Choice Book Award in 2008 and the Mockingbird Award in 2009.
As an educational consultant, Lola has worked in dozens of schools across the country. She shares effective classroom strategies on writing workshop, the craft of writing, and genre structures. Lola offers demonstration lessons, as well as general presentations on craft mini-lessons and the art of writing. She is the author of ten Scholastic Professional Resource books for teachers that focus on strategies to improve student writing.
Lola lives with her husband Ted in the mountains of north Georgia. (Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Schaefer (One Special Day) and Neal (Over and Under the Snow) use traits and developmental milestones of 11 species as a way to take full measure of animal lives, and the result is as intriguing as it is gorgeous. Readers visit a silvery forest, where "In one lifetime, this woodpecker"-a handsome fellow with a bright red crest, seen simultaneously perched on trees and peering out of holes-"will drill 30 roosting holes in the woods. Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!" Did Neal really draw 900 flowers in meadow (the number a swallowtail butterfly visits during a lifespan) or 1,000 "teeny-weeny, squiggly-wiggly" seahorse babies (the number a male seahorse carries and births)? It looks like he probably did. But those who would rather trust than verify won't miss out-the stylized nature vignettes, rendered in the flat, vivid colors of poster art, offer rewards to both close, numbers-minded readers and those who simply want to savor the wonder of it all. Back matter includes information on each species as well as how to compute averages and solve story problems. Ages 4-8. Author's agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
The concepts of counting and quantity are cleverly examined in the context of animal lives. Schaefer presents the number of times an animal "performs one behavior or grows one feature" in its lifetime, starting with the single egg sac spun by a spider, moving through double-digit features such as the twenty fleeces produced by an alpaca, and up to the thousand babies carried by a male seahorse. Bold, beautifully composed, and somewhat retro (reminiscent of his art in Over and Under the Snow, rev. 1/12), Neal's block print - like mixed-media illustrations of the eleven animals featured contain the actual number of items on each double-page spread--industrious readers can count every one of the 550 sharply defined alligator eggs or the nine hundred flowers a swallowtail visits. Significant supplemental information can be found after the main text, including scientific names and additional numerical facts about each animal, a discussion of the concept of average, and word problems to think about the mathematics behind calculating some of these numbers. danielle j. ford (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Schaefer combines her interest in animals and her fascination with numbers, using sparse text to introduce both animals and a numerical fact about a specific characteristic of each animal. An introduction provides the caveat that approximations differ depending on many factors in the life of the animal. The text is matter-of-fact, and the colors of the mixed-media illustrations subdued, but they complement each other in tone. It takes a bit to realize that Neal's illustration for each animal matches the number Schaefer uses in the text. For instance, the illustration for sea horses has 1,000 teeny-weeny, squiggly-wiggly baby sea horses. (Feel up to counting all of them?) Thankfully, as part of the back matter, Schaefer adds detailed information about each animal and its life span, how she calculated the estimations she uses throughout the book, two animal math problems to solve, and more. Fills a clever niche for both animal science and mathematics.--Petty, J. B. Copyright 2010 Booklist
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 4-This addition to animal counting books mixes in science and mathematical processing to share numbers from behaviors or events occurring over an animal's lifetime. The count begins with the single egg sac a cross spider produces in its lifetime. The count continues with 10 sets of antlers a caribou grows, then 20 fleeces for a llama, and up to 50 before it skips to 100, 200, 550, 900 and 1,000. Each spread highlights a different insect, animal, or plant. The main text is minimal and suitable for storytime while the back is appropriate for older readers, providing background information on each animal and an explanation of how the numbers were derived. Additional pages explain how an average is calculated and the author's love of math. The illustrations are stylized, using high contrast to ease counting and improve legibility, although numbers beyond 200 will require very determined numerists. This book will be useful for units on integrating literature into math instruction.-Carol S. Surges, formerly at Longfellow Middle School, Wauwatosa, WI (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
An original concept that begins simply and ends up surprisingly--and somewhat confusingly--complex. Award winner Schaefer and illustrator Neal team up to create a picture book about the number of times particular events occur in the lifetimes of 11 different animals. Neal's illustrations--appealingly retro in their understated style and muted color scheme--accurately portray the numeric facts presented: "In one lifetime, this female red kangaroo will birth 50 joeys"--and voil, there's a double-page spread of 50 baby kangaroos. Readers (or listeners) will enjoy counting the joeys, sea horses, alligator eggs or spots on the giraffe. It's all fun and games until the backmatter arrives. Then, facts about each animal (Latin name, habitat, lifespan) and convoluted mathematical explanations of how Schaefer arrived at each of her numbers are presented. A more child-friendly explanation of averages and how to calculate them follows. Readers are invited to use this newly acquired knowledge to ponder two math word problems given at the end of the book. Is this book about the natural world? Counting? Statistics? Solving math word problems? It's hard to say. A great deal of information is presented, for a range of ages. Kudos for not dumbing it down, however. A more cohesive theme would make for a more understandable overall presentation, but readers will get their money's worth. (Informational picture book. 4-8)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
