SERIES MADE SIMPLE

Who Needs a Desert?: A Desert Ecosystem

by Karen PATKAU
9781770493865. ea vol: 32p. (Ecosystem). ebook available. glossary. illus. Tundra. 2014. Tr. $17.99.
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Gr 1–3—"We all do" is the given answer to the titular question in each of these mediocre additions to a 2012 series. Like the three preceding volumes, each surveys a particular biome with a combination of simple observations and painted landscape (or aquatic) scenes. Along with muddy, low contrast colors, the busy illustrations have a flattened look, as if images of wildlife are laid down over generic backgrounds. Not until a note under the map at the end of each volume are readers informed that they have gotten not a general worldwide overview but a profile of a particular desert, reef, or prairie. Moreover, closing galleries of previously introduced flora and fauna supply additional facts but are disconnected from the preceding contents, as the volumes are unpaged.
Reviewed by Audrey Sumser , Nov 01, 2014

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