Pandas' Earthquake Escape
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Publisher Description
Pandas' Earthquake Escape is a fictional story based on a real-life event. In real life, XiXi, a Giant panda did escape from the destroyed Wolong Panda Reserve when the 7.9 earthquake rocked Northern China on May 12, 2008. Author Phyllis Perry uses the adventures of a mother panda, LiLing, and her one year old cub, Tengfei, to teach children about earthquakes, animal survival, and to reinforce a mother's instinct to protect her child. After the quake, mother and cub run from the wreckage. Confused and afraid, they get lost! How will they survive outside their reserve? Will they find food? Will they find shelter? And will they safely endure the earthquake after-shocks? There is something to be learned from every natural disaster, and LiLing and Tengfei give children an opportunity to see it through their eyes. With the help of Susan Detwiler's vivid illustrations, author Phyllis Perry uses a factual event to teach children about earthquakes and animal survival.
Mom's Choice Award Gold
USA Book News
6pg For Creative Minds educational section in the back
Aligned to State Standards / Lexile, Guided Reading, AR, Reading Counts, and Fountas & Pinnell
Educator Keywords: pandas, earthquakes, life science, earth science, environmental education, caring for animals,picture book
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two giant pandas, Liling and Tengfei, fall from a tree when an earthquake strikes their home on a reserve in Northern China, in this fictionalized story based on an actual incident. Although Detwiler (One Wolf Howls) depicts the bears naturalistically, their faces convey their fear as mother and cub run through the rainforest, which is rendered in muted greens and violets. Perry (The Field Guide to Ocean Animals) vividly describes Tengfei's emotions: "Tengfei was frantic as he looked around. He stared deep into the woods. Suddenly he spotted the familiar black and white markings of his mother's fur." When men, whose kind faces suggest they aren't a threat, spot the pair, they capture them and carry them back to their reserve: "The hungry pandas were really happy to be home." Appended educational materials include activities, giant panda facts, and information about earthquakes and the Richter Scale, which could be developed into a broader lesson. Readers, though, may be left wanting more substance from Liling and Tengfei's story, which, despite its initial momentum, ends with a wispy resolution. Ages 4 8.
