Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Deadliest! 20 Dangerous Animals by Steve Jenkins - ADVISABLE

Jenkins, Steve  Deadliest! 20 Dangerous Animals  PICTURE BOOK Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.  $14.99  Content: PG.  

This book highlights twenty of the world’s deadliest animals.  Some animals kill for food and others kill to protect themselves.  The book gives an explanation of what makes the animal deadly and why.  Each page has a comparison in size to a human so you can see how big the animal really is.  There is also a map that shows where that animals lives.  Surprisingly, the most deadly animal is a mosquito which causes the deaths of more than a million people a year.  

I enjoy Steve Jenkins books-his illustrations are simple but interesting and the facts are unusual.  The reason I put this book at PG is because I think it can be upsetting to little kids to think about being hunted by animals-especially the sharks.  Even though the book is the size of an early reader, the reading level is 2nd-3rd grade because of the vocabulary.

EL (K-3) – ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson. 

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