Siy, A. (2005). Mosquito Bite. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.
Summary:
This is a story told in third person about a mosquito named Culex. It begins with two kids playing hide-and-seek then moves into the birth of mosquitoes. It then explains the first couple weeks of a mosquito’s life and what they look like. It then goes into the mosquito’s search for food and refers back to the children playing hide-and-seek and the mosquito’s goal of finding blood. This book is an easy read for younger children that explain the partial life cycle of a mosquito.
Ages:
3rd through 5th grade
Credibility of Author:
The author used many credible sources when writing this book, including people from a disease laboratory and specialists from the Mosquito and Vector Control District in California.
National Standards that this book relates to:
Life Science and Science and Inquiry
Access Features:
This book contains a section that tells the reader more about mosquitoes; there is a section that explains how the color photographs in the book were taken with a scanning electron microscope, a glossary, n index, and additional resources. The end pages look like a very blurry photograph either taken through a window screen or a flyswatter.
Description of the Illustrations:
The color photographs in this book were taken using a scanning electron microscope and the subjects in the picture were magnified anywhere from 10 to 300,000 times. The photographs are actually taken in black and white and then a computer program goes in and adds color to specific features to make them more noticeable.
My response to the book:
I thought that this was a very interesting book about mosquitoes and the fight that they have to go through just to stay alive during the first few days of life. The photographs were very interesting and showed even the smallest detail from the mosquito to the eggs.
How I would use this book in my class:
This would be a great book for a study of habitats or life cycles. It would also be a good book to read after on warm days after a rain so the kids can go out and look in the puddles (hopefully without getting bit!).
Awards:
None Yet! (It was just published this year)
Related Texts:
Piehl, J. (2007). Flying Mosquitos. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company.
This book is 32 pages long.
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Check out Debbie's award information for this book.
I'm interested in its content now--I've never been bitten by mosquitos until this summer! My son asked what mosquitos were good for anyway--I had to think quickly to come up with fish and frog food:-)
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