Elaine Pascoe

This book would be a good choice for students in 4th grade up until 7th grade as an independent reading book. It is informational, but it covers many topics so it wouldn't help to read it as a class or as an independent read aloud. It mentions many of the subjects students are learning about in these grades so they would be fascinated by the relation, and encourage them to learn more about the topics because this age likes to pull pranks and make jokes, which is what the book is all about.

discusses the animals that live without backbones and how they survive
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While the work that went in to this book in the 1990's was accurate at the time, the classification of many types of fungi have changed. The images are still useful, but if your students were looking for a resource I would not use this book. The author Elaine Pascoe has written a separate book on fungi that is up to date called, "A Kid's Guide to the Classification of Living Things: Fungi."