Thimmesh, Catherine
Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild, 60 pages. NON-FICTION Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
$18. Content: G.
Human encroachment is
the main cause for Giant Pandas growing extinct. This book explains what scientists are doing
to help increase the panda population as well as their environments which will
help other endangered species. The book
explains reintroduction training that the scientists implement on the pandas
and the ways that they try to take human interaction out of the panda’s
experiences. The Giant Panda is a much
loved animal and it helps draw attention to other endangered animals as
well.
This informational text has lots
of interesting and detailed facts about pandas being reintroduced into the
wild. The reading level and vocabulary
as well as amount of text is higher than elementary, so this book would fit
better in a middle school in maybe an animal biology unit. The photographs are interesting and at the
back of the book there is a glossary as well as what efforts the reader can
make to help conservationists. This
would need a teacher guided discussion because I’m not sure many kids would
pick it up to read for fun, even though I found it very interesting and well
done.
MS – OPTIONAL.
Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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