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
"A Night in Fernwood Forest is a companion volume to Fernwood Forest (2022), which introduced readers to plants and animals that reside in Fernwood Forest. In A Night in Fernwood Forest, we follow the movement of animals that are active after dark—a barred owl, a female cougar and her cub, Pacific tree frogs, a family of raccoons, a deer mouse, moths, mosquitoes, bats, shrews, and snails. Backmatter includes factual notes about the animals introduced in the previous pages, a labelled illustration of a nurse log, and pointers for respectful visits to forest ecosystems. Evocative full-page illustrations bring a sense of the darkness and mystery of nighttime in the forest.

Curriculum Connections: Regular Canadian Teacher Magazine readers will recognize the name of the author of this book (and others in the By Day and By Night Nature Series). 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. Every page contains a clue about the animal that will be featured on the following page, and the movement of the sun or moon across the sky. Careful readers will notice that there is a numerical component in the introduction of each new species as well. This beautiful book will engage listeners and independent readers and support the science goals in elementary school classrooms." - Canadian Teacher Magazine, 2024 Winter Issue