Review by Booklist Review
Combining an easy text with big, bright color photos, this systematic primer waddles into the front ranks of books inspired by The March of the Penguins, the popular 2005 documentary. Addressing questions posed in headers ( Do Penguins Have Enemies? ), Markert's text, expanded with colorful margin notes, varies in length from brief, paragraph-long remarks to several pages of text and photos as with the section on penguin eggs and chicks. The eye-filling pictures range from fetching portraits of several kinds of penguins to close-ups of krill, a king penguin's wing, and, for a dramatic highlight, the gaping jaws of a leopard seal. Closing with notes on human threats to penguins and supplemented by a multimedia resource list, this entry in the New Naturebooks series, a thorough relaunch of the earlier Naturebooks series, won't get lost in the flock of recent penguin-themed arrivals.--Peters, John Copyright 2007 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
Gr 2-4-Though visually attractive, these titles offer slight introductions to their subjects. The minimal, easy-to-read texts include the barest information about physical appearance, habitat, eating habits, predators, endangered status, and behavior. Specialized vocabulary is set in bold type with the bulk of the text boxed in unobtrusive grids, thus drawing the eye to the crystal-clear, full-color photos. Formatted well, the images look like animal poses, like ad-worthy face shots taken from photo archives, which is particularly unfortunate given that McDonald is a professional wildlife photographer. Overall, there is enough here to whet readers' appetites.-Nancy Call, Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Aptos, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
[cf2]Toucans[cf1] covers topics such as where they live, what they eat, and how they sleep. [cf2]Penguins[cf1] discusses subjects such as physical characteristics, predators, and locomotion. Although blandly written, the brief text in each book is informative and printed in a large typeface, and, except for one poorly reproduced photo in [cf2]Penguins[cf1], the full-page, close-up color photos are eye-catching. Glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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