Sung to the tune of "Are You Sleeping?", this book talks about the ways to tell if something is living. Does it move? Grow? Eat? Have feelings? Each verse introduces one or two ways to identify a living thing: "Is it moving? / Is it moving? / Can it fly? / Gallop by? / Living things need dinner, / Or they get much thinner, / So they need / To drink and feed."
If you read this book aloud, be sure to practice the song first--the rhythm changes in a few places to fit the syllables. Also be prepared to discuss some of the more advanced vocabulary ("People have emotions, / Thoughts and clever notions".) The colorful illustrations are directly tied to each verse, making this a fun book to start a science lesson for young children.
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