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Living Color
- By Steve Jenkins
- Genre: Science
Common Sense Media says
Encyclopedic view of colorful, intriguing animals.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that scientific-minded kids will lose themselves in this informative book.
What's the story?
Explores a menagerie of colorful creatures and the ways their color protects them.
Is it any good?
Did you know animals communicate with their colors? Mother Nature's rainbow animal kingdom is so colorful for two reasons: to keep animals safe and to attract mates. This detailed book showcases gorgeous illustrations of animals of every kind -- from the green African chameleon to the yellow crazy ant -- along with the scientific details that make being colorful so important.
Young kids will be fascinated by the pictures -- some of the animals are really bizarre! -- while older kids will love the weird details (like the way the violet raft snail builds a raft of sticky bubbles so that it can float on the surface of the ocean). The pictures are detailed enough to stand up to scientific study and animals are grouped by color with plenty of subtitles to make it easy for kids to bounce around each page.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about their favorite animals. What qualities make those animals so intriguing? They can also visit a zoo and check out the colorful animals there. Or quiz each other on some of the factoids in the book ("Why don't most wild birds lay white eggs?).
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| Author: | Steve Jenkins |
| Illustrator: | Steve Jenkins |
| Book type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science |
| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Children's Books |
| Publication date: | September 10, 2007 |
| Number of pages: | 32 |
| Hardcover price: | $17.00 |
| Publisher's recommended age(s): | 7 - 10 |
| Read aloud: | 7 |
| Read alone: | 8 |
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