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Summary
Summary
Mixed media art transports readers to the rolling grasslands of Badlands National Park. Learn about the animals that inhabit this semiarid environment where baby critters and their mothers wallow, run, call, bark, hop, scurry, nod, slither, howl, and jump all day long and all through the night.
Count animals from one to ten in the rhyming text modeled after the traditional song "Over in the Meadow" by Olive A. Wadsworth. A guide to prairie flora and fauna is included.
Author Notes
Donna Bateman is the author of DEEP IN THE SWAMP and OUT ON THE PRAIRIE. She lives in Bridgeton, Missouri.
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3-Veteran children's musical performer Tom Chapin brings these titles to life. Both are based on the classic children's rhyme "Over in the Meadow" and introduce children to various animals found in North America. Deep in the Swamp highlights the wildlife of the Okefenokee Swamp in Florida, while Out on the Prairie celebrates creatures found in South Dakota's Badlands National Park. The CD offers three tracks-one with clear page turn signals, one without the turns, and a third that features Chapin singing the text. Chapin's pacing is just right for young readers who are following along; he includes plenty of time for turning pages and appreciation of the excellent illustrations. The song track will perfectly suit listeners who want a more upbeat, fast-paced experience. These titles should appeal to a wide array of nature devotees.-Deanna Romriell, Salt Lake City Library, UT (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Adapting the rhyme "Over in the Meadow," Bateman takes readers on a trip to Badlands National Park in South Dakota, highlighting 10 animals that make their homes there. Swan's showstopping collages have a three-dimensional quality that makes the prairie come alive-a brightly marbled grasshopper stares out at readers, while "a mother meadowlark and her little chicks Three" cluster on photographs of actual branches amid sweeping newsprint grasses. An informative appendix (also illustrated) provides further details about bison, howdy owls, grama grasses, and more. All in all, it's a delightful introduction to a unique and beautiful ecosystem. Ages 4-7. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Traditionally patterned verses celebrate the flora, fauna and wide sky of the mixed-grass prairie of Badlands National Park in South Dakota. "Out on the prairie where the snakeroot greets the sun, / Lived a shaggy mother bison and her little calf One." As she did in Deep in the Swamp (2007), Bateman has chosen representative features and creatures to introduce a remarkable ecosystem. Counting from one to 10, she goes on to include pronghorns, meadowlarks, prairie dogs, grasshoppers, grouse, owls, rattlesnakes, coyotes and toads in a series of verses that also span the day from dawn to night. The poetry is not sacrificed to the information; she pays careful attention to language and rhythm, using splendid verbs. It reads aloud smoothly. Swan's energetic cut-paper, mixed-media illustrations delight and instruct. She includes found objects and hand-painted paper, collaged and digitally combined on double-page spreads that blend into a spatter-paint frame in the story section. Plants and animals are identifiable in the pictures and described further in the backmatter, 10 pages of "Prairie Flora and Fauna Facts." This describes the animals' child-bearing and -rearing habits, offers further information about the plants, and defines the term "prairie." Another outstanding appreciation of the natural world for young readers and listeners both. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Out on the prairie where the snakeroot greets the sun, Lived a shaggy mother bison and her little calf One. "Wallow!" said the mother. "I wallow," said the One. So they wallowed in the dust where the snakeroot greets the sun. Excerpted from Out on the Prairie by Donna M. Bateman All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
