Book Details

Paperback, perfect-bound. 40 pages.

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Awards

• New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, Finalist, Nature/Environment, 2012

• USA Best Book Award, Winner, Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Non-Fiction, 2011

What folks are saying …

Read a loud is a must!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I am amazed and love the way Conrad Storad wrote this story. It ties marvelously into my first week of school content on rules. In the story, he included rattlesnakes and their specific rules to survive. What is amazing is how in all his stories he includes a curriculum guide at the back of the story to give ideas of an activity to do afterward. Since I am a second-grade teacher I will be doing rules and reviewing them. Additionally, he signed my story and wrote a special note to the students to follow rules. I highly recommend this book to anyone. The author is so communicative and generous. The illustrations and curriculum are wonderful. I am amazed and will use this story for a read-aloud to my students in the first week of school. Thank you so much!”

— Heather Wonders, Second Grade Teacher

Picture book teaches children fun facts

Rattlesnake Rules written by Conrad J. Storad is a wonderful picture book that takes the reader on a fun adventure as mother rattlesnake teaches her little ones about the “rules.”

Written in rhyme this picture book teaches children fun facts about the misunderstood rattlesnake. It also includes a curriculum guide at the end with more fascinating fact, rattlesnake mysteries, myths vs fact, words to learn and other activities. Rattlesnake Rules is a complete learning tool and is brightly illustrated for even more added fun.

— Sandie Lee, Imagination-Cafe

5 stars

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Have you ever seen a rattlesnake? Have you ever heard one rattle? Rattlesnakes have gotten a bad reputation over the years, mostly because they are misunderstood. Yes, they do pose a hazard to people, but they are part of God's creation and serve a useful purpose, part of which is eating rats and mice which can carry diseases harmful to humans. Author Conrad J. Storad, a long time resident of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, helps children learn more about these fascinating creatures by presenting in poetic form what a mother rattlesnake might tell her young ones about rules for hunting, eating, and warning, and also rules for humans to keep safe. The eye-catching illustrations by Nathaniel P. Jensen, which remind me of Disney snakes like Kaa of The Jungle Book and Sir Hiss of Robin Hood, help to bring the book alive. Can you guess what a rattlesnake uses its forked tongue for?

Storad, a journalist, has long been fascinated by the diversity of plants and animals that live in the desert. Among his previous 32 science and nature books are Meerkats, the Arizona Book Publishing Association's "Arizona Best Book of 2008;" Don't Call Me a Pig! (A Javelina Story); Desert Night Shift (A Pack Rat Story); Lizards for Lunch (A Roadrunner's Story); and Don't Ever Cross That Road (An Armadillo Story). The back of Rattlesnake Rules contains several pages of Rattlesnake Fast Facts, Rattlesnake Fun Facts, Rattlesnake Mysteries, Rattlesnake Myths vs. Facts, Words to Learn, and a useful Rattlesnake Rules Curriculum Guide provided by librarian and teacher Jean Kilker with suggested activities that will help parents and teachers reinforce the material in the book. This is a really neat and fun book that should prove to be a good resource in children's science reading.

— Wayne S. Walker, SFC Book Reviews

Readers learn fun facts about rattlesnakes

Whether they live in jungles, oceans, or deserts, all living things have rules — including rattlesnakes. Now readers can eavesdrop on a mother rattlesnake as she instructs her baby snakes on the proper way to hunt, swallow prey, and use their rattles to discourage potential enemies like humans. Along the way, readers learn fun facts about rattlesnakes — including their ability to smell with their tongues and swallow prey in one gulp.

Best known for his picture book Don't Call Me Pig!, which was selected by then-Arizona governor Janet Napolitano as part of her literacy program, science writer Conrad Storad treats his fans to another fun science book for kids that puts the spotlight on the fascinating but frequently misunderstood world of rattlesnakes.

— Michael Jung, Suite101: Science Picture Books for Kids

Fully illustrated with humorous paintings

Rattlesnake Rules is a handy explanatory book for children ages 8-12 teaching all about rattlesnakes. Written by award-winning children's author and science editor Conrad J. Storad, Rattlesnake Rules comes fully illustrated with humorous paintings and also contains a fact list, glossary, and full curriculum guide written by Jean Kilker, a national Board Certified teacher and librarian in Litchfield Park, Arizona. Rattlesnake Rules is an excellent guide for young students to promote healthy understanding and respect for the reality of rattlesnakes and techniques and ways to help keep both rattlesnakes and humans safe.

— James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review 

About the Author

Conrad J. Storad is an award-winning author and editor of more than 50 science and nature books for children and young adults, including Monster in the Rocks, Gator, Gator, Second Grader (Classroom Pet…or Not?), the “USA Best Book” Rattlesnake Rules, and the ONEBOOKAZ for Kids 2012 selection Arizona Way Out West & Witty. He holds an undergraduate degree in mass media communication from the University of Akron and a master’s degree in mass communication/science journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. Storad resides in Ohio with his wife, Laurie, and their rescue wiener dog, Frankie. Learn more at https://www.conradjstorad.com/.