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This is an informational text with very clear and real farm animal images as well as short snips of information. It travels through a wide variety of farm animals such as cows, sheep, dogs, pigs, chickens, and several others. This text is very clear and is not an overwhelming informational piece.

Snippet on each animal- one really incredible thing it does.

An absolutely amazing book about insects that you know of, and others that you may have never heard of before. The photos are incredible. Information given about the insects themselves is detailed, but not too difficult to children to understand. My grandchildren love, love, love, this book. It is a favourite in our house. A must read!

Picture books can be so amazing. This book is a well-designed photographic exploration of shapes in nature. Each two page spread features a shape or pattern, with bright and clear photographs that capture different examples of that specific element. For example, for the triangle there are photographs of a dog's ear, a shark's fin, a mountain peak, and seashells. The photographs are set off on a colored background or overlap each other. Minimal text accompanies the pictures, sometimes in rhyme, always with a light-hearted humor. Each of the creatures or plants are labeled. The implementation is simple and clever, inviting children to compare and contrast, to analyze some of the surprising similarities among very different objects, and to embrace the beauty of nature. This would be a great tie-in to geometry lessons, to show students that the natural world generates the shapes and patterns that we study in the classroom. It's also a wonderful picture book to read to children at home, with bright pages and text that will appeal to children from a range of ages.