Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Scanorama Amazing Animals by Anna Claybourne -OPTIONAL

Claybourne, Anna Scanorama Amazing Animals, 30 pages. Silver Dolphin (Quarto), 2016.  $19. 

This interactive book contains a ton of information about a wide variety of animal predators. It groups them a variety of ways: Biggest, fastest, smartest, strongest, deadly, tiny, glowing, and more. Most of the facts are little blurbs and interesting things, and some lift the tab images. Some pages have size or chart comparisons. The big draw here is the four interactive x-ray pages that allow readers to see the bones of various creatures like a honey badger, by moving a slider.

I rated this book as optional only because integrative books tend to get trashed easily especially in a library situation. I do think students would really love this book though. It’s well written and interesting and the illustrations and photos are engaging and well crafted. One thing that could be done to make this book work for you library is to show the student who is checking the book out how to carefully move the sliders. (or as a class). Could be used by a teacher during a lesson on animal adaptions. Additionally, this book would make a great gift.

EL(K-3) – OPTIONAL.  Stephanie Elementary School Librarian & Author

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