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In the story Biggest, Strongest, Fastest it teaches children about the different extremes in nature. It also uses illustrations to show comparisons between the size of the animal and a human which helps children to understand how big or small something is. There is an order to how the animals are presented and there are some great words that could be used to help expand children's vocabularies. Children love seeing what is the biggest, smallest, strongest and fastest of things and this book does a good job using that format to teach about different animals.

An informational text using Steve Jenkin's ingenious collage work to complement the factual information. "My son Alec, who was five when I began working on this book, was fascinated with superlatives. What is the fastest animal? The strongest? The tiniest? Like most children, he was absorbing an incredible amount of information about the world, much of it without context, and I realized that being able to mark out the extremes helped him make sense of what he was learning. This book is a response to his questions." - Steve Jenkins

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This book is all about the biggest, strongest, and fastest animals in the world. It has different pictures of these animals and has simple facts about them being large, strong, or fast. It would be a good read to do a compare and contrast lesson because you could compare animals that are strong with animals that are big or fast, etc. Students could look for facts about big animals, fast, animals, or strong animals.

This book talks about all different kinds of animals and insects, describing cool or amazing facts about them. It sets it up in a great way for kids who are not yet reading to just be able to look at the pictures and be entertained and work on how print works. It also is great for just beginning readers with simple text. And it's great for advanced readers becuase the facts are right by each picture with more information.