Friday, July 30, 2010

How Do Animals Stay Safe?

Brynie, Faith Hickman. How Do Animals Stay Safe?

Enslow 2010 32p 22.60 I Like Reading About Animals(Enslow)

978-0-7660-3326-9 elem VG-BNes

Twelve different animals, with twelve different ways of protecting themselves from predators, are presented in this wonderful picture book. The book is very appealing, with beautiful full-color photos of animals, large print, and two different sections on each page, one for beginning readers and one for slightly more fluent readers. There is a table of contents, a glossary in the front (very welcome!), an index, and resources for further information.
The only fault I found with this book was on page 18: “Sea slubs live in the ocean. There is poison in its body” is quite jarring, and clearly was overlooked by the proofreader. This should be corrected in subsequent editions. Kennedy, Carol



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