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| Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 684031
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 0823421694
Dewey Decimal Number: 633.150973
EAN: 9780823421695
ASIN: 0823421694
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
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Product Description
Perennial nonfiction favourite Gail Gibbons turns her spotlight on corn. Popcorn, corn on the cob, corn dogs, cornflakes--corn is used in many children's favorite foods. This book offers a cornucopia of information about the history of corn as well as details concerning planting, cultivation, harvesting, and its many uses.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful book! November 14, 2008
As usual Gail Gibbons has written another great non-fiction book for children. I teach Kindergarten and own over 30 of her books. I use them with every theme I teach.
 great book...but one little problem November 6, 2008
This is a fantastic book, however near the end there is a map showing the states where corn is grown in the US. Missouri is labeled as MS and not MO. Maybe in the next printing that will be fixed.
A wonderful addition to children's library collections. September 7, 2008
Corn is an educational children's picturebook packed cover to cover with fascinating and fun facts about corn - from when it was cultivated by the Aztec and Mayan civilizations to how popcorn is made to its many uses, and its planting and pollination cycles. "A hull covers a kernel. Inside each kernel there is some moisture. When a kernel is heated the moisture expands. Pop! The hull bursts open. Now the popcorn is ready to eat." Brightly illustrated in yellow and green hues, Corn is highly recommended as a wonderful addition to children's library collections.br /
Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children September 2, 2008
Gail Gibbons has done it again, this time providing an interesting and substantive contribution to children's non-fiction literature that focuses on corn. The central theme of the book revolves around the four main types of corn (sweet corn, popcorn, flint corn, and dent corn) and how people have put them to use as food sources, animal feeds, fuel, and as additives to other products we do not commonly associate with corn. The book also informs readers of the long history behind corn cultivation, the machines that are used to plant and harvest corn, and the process underlying the growth and pollination of corn. Corn gives teachers and parents a new option for teaching children about natural resources and capital resources. Kids who may not think twice about food items they eat almost every day are bound to learn something new and exciting.
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