Come with us for a walk along a secluded forest trail on a quiet night in May. We catch glimpses of ten animals as they move about in their woodland home from dusk until dawn. A mother cougar and her cub, a colony of bats, and a family of shrews are among the nighttime creatures we encounter. Beautiful full-page illustrations also depict many plants that live in this ecosystem. Information at the back of the book provides facts about nurse logs and the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest.

A Night in Fernwood Forest is part of the By Day and By Night Nature Series. Books in this series focus on a specific habitat and explore the many connections within a healthy ecosystem. Through lyrical stories, supportive illustrations, labelled diagrams, and nature notes, readers learn about living and non-living parts of the ecosystem.

Additionally, readers can:

• use a picture clue on each page to predict the animal featured on the next page
• count animals as their numbers increase in each illustration
• search for an animal that travels from page to page
• discover patterns in the text and structure of each book
• track the movement of the sun or moon across the sky

Reviews
"Brenda Boreham brings her teaching experience and love of nature to these books, filling them with opportunities for the discovery of interactions between plants and animals in healthy ecosystems…. This beautiful book will engage listeners and independent readers and support the science goals in elementary school classrooms." – Canadian Teacher Magazine, Winter 2024 issue