FICTION

Amazing Animals

The Remarkable Things That Creatures Do
by Margaret RUURS
978-0-88776-973-3.
COPY ISBN
Gr 4—6—An attractive compendium of critter facts, accompanied by some small, stellar acrylic paintings. Covering such topics as "Size and Strength" and "Diet," snippets of text inform readers that an octopus "has a toothed tongue to drill holes in stuff" and "fig wasps have a symbiotic relationship with gif trees." What readers are not told is that there are many kinds of birds of paradise besides the one pictured, each with its own courting behaviors, and that not all female fireflies are femme fatales luring unsuspecting males to entree status on the menu. This book has great eye appeal for young browsers, and the olio of factoids may prompt further investigations by curious kids.—Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
Reviewed by Patricia Manning , Jun 01, 2011

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