SERIES MADE SIMPLE

Enormous Ears and Soft Brown Hair (Moose)

by Ellen LAWRENCE
9781910549186. ea vol: 24p. (Whose Little Baby Are You?). glossary. index. photos. websites. Bearport. 2015. lib. ed. $23.93. ebk. $37.27.
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K-Gr 3—A page featuring a photograph and listing unique descriptors and a habitat are used to introduce each newborn before the animal in question is identified. Each title takes readers through the stages of development, from infancy to adulthood. A Giant Egg breaks that pattern, spending more time on the nesting and incubation process and the parents' appearance than on infant development. Vivid, carefully selected photos fill each page, labels highlight details, and the text is set on bright backgrounds. A closing "Fact File" spread adds further information, including a size comparison to adult humans and a world map of the animal's range. The endangered status of pandas in Tiny Paws and orangutans in Tiny Fingers is addressed. The indexes are more extensive than usual for introductory titles.
VERDICT Solid options, especially for educators teaching index use.
Descriptions of the habitat and physical appearance of an unnamed baby mammal and a question--"Who does this little baby belong to?"--begin these books about moose, orangutans, and giant pandas. Straightforward text explains family, diet, and growth, while large, close-up photos (all clearly labeled but some with odd graphics added) lend immediacy. "Fact file" and habitat map appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Whose Little Baby Are You? titles: Enormous Eats and Soft Brown Hair, Tiny Fingers and Fuzzy Orange Hair, and Tiny Paws and Big Black Eyes.
Reviewed by Carol S. Surges , Nov 01, 2015

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