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Oh my…. I like this book! 🙂 Hedgehog’s Home for Winter is a look into seasonal change and how animals live through the winter. So if you are looking for a way to help your littles (or even introduce some olders) understand how animals survive the winter… this book will help. Hedgehog has much to learn, and so we can learn with him!
Learning about Hedgehog’s Home for Winter
Clever Publishing has put together this lovely book entitled Hedgehog’s Home for Winter. This hardcover book was written by Elena Ulyeva. And boy, it’s a cute book, while being educational! You’ll find the animals are rather anthropomorphized but it suits the style of the book. It provides talking points, at least it would for me, asking children if they really thought wild mice slept in bed like people. 🙂
The Illustrations are provided by Daria Parkhaeva, she has illustrated both of the Hedgehog books. You’ll find lots of colours, with about 1/2 the 32 pages done in full colour. The other half make good use of white space, showing action as Hedgehog moves from friend to friend. Children up to grade two will enjoy the excellent depiction of the various animals and the natural use of colour.
I love hedgehog’s heart desire. He wants to help his friends! Birds, fish, bear, squirrel and more. He takes the time to check in on all them. Itsn’t that thoughtfulness a wonderful thing to see?
You’ll find the font a great size to read sitting down in a comfy couch with child at your side, or reading with a large group of children gathered round. There are authomatic stopping points as you walk with hedgehog checking on his friends. Who might he go to next, what might he find? Do you think he’ll check on a toad or a bird next? Why don’t we find out together?
Should it be yours?
Learning about how animals make it through the winter is an important part of nature studies. Hedgehog’s home for winter is a good introductory book into learning about their survival skills. Since Hedgehog is the main character it makes me think this is European based (no wild hedgehogs in Canada at least!) 🙂 So it might also be a good introduction to learning a bit about European wildlife. I never knew that hedgehogs hiberate!
This is a wonderfully illustrated book with tons of talking points, and a hedgehog showing compassion to others. Well worth reading whether looking at animal survival skills or character development. It’s must have been hard for a hibernating hedgehog to stay awake and then run all over the forest checking in on his friends. But because he cared… we got to learn about how his friends manage the cold. A good premise for a book yes?
