Wings, Stings and Wriggly Things (SuperSmarts) (MiniBeasts) - Hardcover
An introduction to the world of tiny creatures includes everything from butterflies and bees to snails and a bird-eating spider that lives in Guyana, complete with fold-out pages and richly detailed illustrations.
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Grade 1-3?Fascinating facts, picture strips, foldout pages, and true-or-false questions are among the features of this series. Wings includes bees, snails, and spiders; Disguises looks at frogs, geckos, and screech owls. Much of the information is of interest, but the cluttered page layouts create an almost impenetrable montage. Double-page spreads show one large picture of an animal against a mottled background. Boxed insets include bright backgrounds with colored, speckled borders in which colorful boxed numbers are themselves inset. Another set of color-boxed numbers guides readers through a set of disordered facts, leading one to wonder why there is a need for numbering at all. Jenkins's well-intentioned text, aimed at addressing children in their own vernacular, serves only to undermine the accuracy of the information presented. A grasshopper "oozes a gross-tasting liquid...." (Gross to whom? Did someone actually taste it?) And spiders pull silk out of their bodies "from holes near their bottom." (Does "bottom" mean underside, abdomen, or do spiders have "bottoms" like people?) Llewellyn's text sometimes imposes human assessments on animals. "Panther chameleons are crotchety creatures," readers are told. Fortunately, a number of better books, such as Anita Ganeri's Animals in Disguise (S & S, 1995), are available.?Lisa Wu Stowe, Great Neck Library, NY
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherCandlewick
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0763600369
- ISBN 13 9780763600365
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages24
- IllustratorSandra Doyle, Sarah Fox-Davies, Clive Pritchard, Ian Thompson
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