Review by Booklist Review
Infographics, concepts, facts, and figures are the hallmark of the Picture This! series. Richer with information than many books with a far higher word count, this latest volume will appeal to the visually oriented young reader. A wide range of fundamental topics is explored, beginning with animal kingdoms and the process of classification. Modes of communication, locomotion, and adaptation of both vertebrates and invertebrates are just a few of the subjects illustrated in full-color two-page spreads. Text is limited to single-paragraph introductions and detailed captions. Crisp's clever silhouette images, though, are dynamic and often humorous, such as the one showing a lion's day planner as including 19 hours of sleep, or the cuckoo bird's mug shot for impersonating a warbler. A helpful introduction discusses U.S. customary units of measurement compared to metric units with relevant and relatable examples. This speaks the way that many kids think through vibrant images and easily compared facts.--Anderson, Erin Copyright 2014 Booklist
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Review by Horn Book Review
This eclectic but organized book presents comparative data about animals, such as depth distribution of deep-sea life and flying abilities of bird species, through minimal text and busy, colorful infographics (tables, graphs, maps, callout labels, etc.). The volume requires careful study instead of light browsing, but occasional humor heightens the appeal. Though generally correct, there are few inaccuracies. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Chock-full of ingeniously designed infographics, this quick but memorable comparative survey of the animal kingdom offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The 26 single-topic spreads range from looks at major classes and phyla to animal senses, records and conservation. Each features a cleanly laid-out mix of graphic-style animal shapes and explanatory captions or introductory hooks ("There are more animals in your bed than in any zoo in the world"). Though some of the images are straight-up illustrations, far more often they are sized, ordered or arranged to reflect adjacent statistics or other measuresas percentages of endangered species, the frog silhouette representing amphibians (41 percent) is nearly twice the size of the mammalian elephant (25 percent), for instance. Some graphics, such as a chart comparing daily food intake and waste production in terms of body weight, are as droll as they are informative (picture, if you can, a blue whale and an elephant sitting on toilets). Others convey multilayered messages, such as the six animals (none, pointedly, human) perching atop bars that resemble pedestals in a chart of average time males devote to child care. A dandy demonstration of how vividly information can be presented when numbers and pictures are linked in inventive ways. (index, further reading) (Nonfiction. 8-11)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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