This book tells what happens to all of the organisms in a forest when it catches fire, including the plants and animals. It gives this information in the form of a story of a particular forest, with a more informational section at the back telling about the cycles forests go through related to fires. The text is accompanied by illustrations and side pictures with captions giving the names of various organisms. This book could be used as an example when teaching about earth's cycles, or perhaps ecosystems. Students could follow a particular organism and tell about how it was affected at each stage of the forest fire and regrowth. ( )

This is a fantastic book about forest fires. The illustrations are beautiful and provide circles with more detailed drawings with labels. It starts from an old forest and clearing with abundant plant and animal life, details how lighting causes forest fires, how the fire runs its course, and how plant and animal life returns to the forest. I like this book because the format of the book lends itself well to a read-aloud. It is written like a story of a forest with information about it. The author’s note contains more information about the importance of forest fires. In the back of the book, there are two pages filled with information about the view of a wilderness forest and a page about how life returns to a forest after a fire. I would use this book as a read aloud to teach about environmental science. I could link it to biodiversity or prey-predator relationships as well. ( )

This book explores what happens to a forrest when a fire happens. Talking with students about regeneration of a ecosystem and natural disasters, specifically fires, would be good to pair with this book.

This is a wonderful factional book that is written stylistically as a narrative of the life of how a fire affects the life cycle of a forest. I also really appreciated that this book introduced fire as a non scary subject. I would use this book in a third grade unit study on weather. ( )

This is an informational book to teach us that when lightening starts a forest fire it is completely normal and that it ends up helping the forest in the end.