Review by Booklist Review
Gr. K-3. Irresistible color images of animal young will draw kids into this Eyewitness Reader's simple, fact-packed text. In brief sentences, grouped one or two to a page and set against white space, the book offers information about baby animals' diet, grooming, communication, protection, and play. Throughout are inset pictures of animal body parts--hooves, lips, fingers, etc.--which are collected in a visual glossary on the last page, allowing young readers to hunt-and-seek for new vocabulary if the rest of the words prove too challenging. Wonderful color photos showing nurtured animals--a baby sloth lounging in the hammock of her mother, a joey peering contentedly from his mother's pouch--balance the text nicely. The last pages, picturing some of the animals maturing, learning new skills, and finally reaching childbearing adulthood, open the door for discussions about the life cycle. A fine choice for young animal lovers to read alone or aloud. --Gillian Engberg
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Review by Horn Book Review
This book introduces basic facts about some mammal babies, including monkeys, zebras, elephants, sloths, and wolves. The large, easy-to-read text is accompanied by crisp color photos set against lots of white space. A picture word-list reinforces the names of eight animal body parts (e.g., [cf2]hooves, lips, tail[cf1]) but would have been more effective if it focused on unfamiliar words in the text. From HORN BOOK Fall 2000, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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