An award-winning author and artist explain how every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival. "Clear, simple drawings illustrate the clear, simple text. Informative and intriguing, this basic science book leads children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth.

Ages 5-8. This Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book presents food chains and food webs on land and under water. Besides showing who eats what in the wild, it brings the food chain idea closer to home with the suggestion that children draw pictures showing the chains for the things they eat, such as their milk, which came from a cow, which ate grass. Clear, simple ink-and-watercolor drawings illustrate the clear, simple text. Informative and intriguing, this basic science book leads children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth.

Patricia Lauber is the author of more than sixty-five books foryoung readers. Many of them are in the field of science, and theirrange reflects the diversity of her own interests-bats, dolphins,dogs, volcanoes, earthquakes, the ice ages, the Everglades, theplanets, earthworms. Two of her books, SEEDS: POP STICK GLIDE andJOURNEY TO THE PLANETS, were nonfiction nominees for The AmericanBook Awards. She was the 1983 winner of The WashingtonPost/Children's Book Guild Award for her overall contribution tochildren's nonfiction literature. As well as writing books, Ms. Lauber has been editor of JuniorScholastic, editor-in-chief of Science World, and chief editor,science and mathematics, of The New Book of Knowledge. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is married and lives inConnecticut. When not writing, she enjoys hiking, sailing,traveling, cooking, reading, and listening to music.