REVIEW: Wait, Rest, Pause

Wait, Rest, Pause:Dormancy in Nature

Author: Marcie, Flinchum Atkins

The audiobook version of Wait, Rest, Pause really needs to be paired with the picture book version. When accompanied by the pictures and text, this audiobook would be a great reading lesson for small children, as well as an awesome beginning science lesson about dormancy. 

The book talks about dormancy in a wide variety of living things from plants and trees to insects and animals. This would be a great book to read to little ones in the fall and winter when they are seeing the changes in the plants all around them and see the squirrels frantically gathering food or geese flying in their V formations. 

This book touches on a very important science lesson and simplifies it for younger children. I only had the audio, but looked up some of the photos from the print book online. Beautiful! For a preschool age child or for early reading lessons, this would be a beautiful audio book to pair with the full color photos of the print book. 

I will be honest and say it took me most of the book to get used to the narrator. I do understand the necessity of carefully pronouncing words to help young children who are new to sounding out words....but he goes a little overboard with it. I would never read to a child in such a slow, over enunciated fashion. But I'm not a child.....a younger child might like the narrator taking care to pronounce each word carefully. 

All in all, this audiobook could have great educational use with small children just starting to learn to read, or those who want to learn more about the seasons and the changes they bring. 

Great book!