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Overview
Terrifying & Ugly Sea Creatures features amazing and frightening underwater sea creatures such as the Portuguese man-of-war, the stonefish, and the gray reef shark.Synopsis
Terrifying & Ugly Sea Creatures features amazing and frightening underwater sea creatures such as the Portuguese man-of-war, the stonefish, and the gray reef shark.
School Library Journal
Gr 3-5
These surveys profile 13 kinds of animals, many of which have undergone extraordinary adaptations. A large, full-body, color drawing of the featured animal is centered on the left-hand page, labeled with several short blocks of text describing some major physical and/or behavioral characteristics. The opposite page has one to three smaller, captioned drawings depicting the animal in action (e.g., defending itself against predators, attacking prey, attaching itself to a host); sidebars with miscellaneous facts; and a small world map, shaded to indicate range. These colorful books, particularly Dinosaurs , will appeal to browsers. However, several errors appear in Pests , the most serious of which occurs in the section on chiggers; it states that the mite burrows into the victim's skin and sucks its blood, but the arachnid actually feeds on dissolved skin cells, dropping off its host when full. David Norman's Dinosaur (DK, 2004), Gail Jarrow's Chiggers (Gale, 2003), and Margery Facklam's Spiders and Their Web Sites (Little, Brown, 2001) include many of the same animals and provide more detail.-Karey Wehner, formerly at San Francisco Public Library
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School Library Journal
Gr 3-5
These surveys profile 13 kinds of animals, many of which have undergone extraordinary adaptations. A large, full-body, color drawing of the featured animal is centered on the left-hand page, labeled with several short blocks of text describing some major physical and/or behavioral characteristics. The opposite page has one to three smaller, captioned drawings depicting the animal in action (e.g., defending itself against predators, attacking prey, attaching itself to a host); sidebars with miscellaneous facts; and a small world map, shaded to indicate range. These colorful books, particularly Dinosaurs , will appeal to browsers. However, several errors appear in Pests , the most serious of which occurs in the section on chiggers; it states that the mite burrows into the victim's skin and sucks its blood, but the arachnid actually feeds on dissolved skin cells, dropping off its host when full. David Norman's Dinosaur (DK, 2004), Gail Jarrow's Chiggers (Gale, 2003), and Margery Facklam's Spiders and Their Web Sites (Little, Brown, 2001) include many of the same animals and provide more detail.-Karey Wehner, formerly at San Francisco Public Library