Scholastic Discover More: Reptiles - Softcover

Arlon, Penelope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545505097 ISBN 13: 9780545505093

Publisher: Scholastic Reference, 2013

Synopsis

Favorite topics in active and interactive print and digital books, specially designed for newly confident readers.

Readers will love the extreme photos and facts about cool and crazy reptiles from giant dragons to snapping turtles The book includes three incredible collection spreads featuring hundreds of snakes, and an interview with a snake expert about these misunderstood and essential creatures. The digital book focuses on reptile hunting techniques. Structured layouts, age-appropriate vocabulary, and infographics make this book a great informational text at school and at home.

About this title

About the Author:

Penny Arlon writes children's nonfiction, taking inspiration from her own children. Her books range from preschool titles to family reference books, and include the Art Attack books, based on the award-winning CITV (UK) children's television program, and all 14 titles in Dorling Kindersley's Eye Know series.

From Booklist:

Each large-format book in the Discover More series offers hundreds of colorful illustrations and small parcels of information related to a range of broad topics. Drawn from a great many sources, the illustrations (mainly photos) are often quite good, though some are too small to be useful. The heavy, glossy pages allow for excellent clarity. Each double-page spread introduces a new topic, typically with a few sentences of text and 6 to 10 captioned pictures. The back matter, which includes a glossary but no sources, is disappointing in a book for this grade level. Bound using somewhat stiff but flexible covers with a shiny coating, the books’ durability falls somewhere between paperbacks and hardbound volumes. Reptiles looks at the subject broadly before focusing more closely on snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and turtles. The photo of a snake skeleton and the cross-sectional illustration of a turtle’s innards are very effective in showing what cannot normally be seen. Recommended as supplemental material for larger libraries. Grades 3-6. --Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Reference
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0545505097
• ISBN 13: 9780545505093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80