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My Thoughts:
The energetic illustrations help to show the comparisons between human and animal behavior. Explanations of how animals behave are clear and interesting. I just feel like it's been done before. I've seen books since I was a kid that show us how animals are not that different from us. This one does have more depth to those explanations, however. The animals are not anthropomorphized at all, which is nice.
Possible Objectionable Material:
None
Who Might Like This Book:
People who like animals.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.
This review is also posted at https://biblioquacious.blogspot.com/2020/07/childrens-nonfiction-keeps-learning.html
Animals Do Too! How They Behave Just Like You
by Etta Kaner
Animals Do Too! How They Behave Just Like You is a wonderful picture book that can be read on so many different levels and in many different ways. Preschoolers would enjoy the basic predictable story pattern that compares their action to that of an animal (e.g. “Do you like to dance? Honeybees do too!). The young elementary student will enjoy the scientific description of what the animal does that is like what the child does and why. The slightly older student would enjoy reading the book independently. At the end of the book is an illustrated glossary of all the animals in the book with a short description of each. No review of this book would be complete without kudos to the illustrator, Marilyn Faucher. Her illustrations of both people and animals are colorful, engaging, and fun. They will make you smile!
I would like to extend my thanks to netgalley.com and to Kids Can Press for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
Rating: 5/5
Category: Children’s Nonfiction
Publication: May 2, 2017—Kids Can Press
I liked the educational content of the book!
Super recommended materials to accompany children to understand the importance of the game to develop skills necessary for animal life and also to learn values.
The information is excellent, to understand behaviors that have been critical to the survival of the species and for them to thrive, just as they have been for us as natural beings of the animal kingdom.
The authors, both through the text and the colorful illustrations, created an association between various children's games and animal behavior. To the extent that children identify with animals, they will be able to develop empathy and respect for them, which I consider important values of social interaction and with animals.
We are not so different, children and animals share the right to life, to prosper and to be happy!
My gratitude to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book
An excellent and engaging resource that I loved from beginning to end.
Animals Do, Too!: How They Behave Just Like You by Etta Kaner, Marilyn Faucher is very informative book with beautiful illustrations. The book is fun and engaging, which allows the reader to discovers how similar humans and animals act.
The illustrations are colorful and bright, and help to compare kids and animals doing the same activity. I liked that the kids are shown in different spaces, like a park, beach or their home, and accompanied by their family and friends. Each animal is also portrayed in its environment and surrounded by their own. Beautiful picture book.
This book combines an adorable, easy to read picture book with nonfiction and unique information about animals. The animal facts are presented in a manner that a young child can understand. I appreciate the added facts about the animals at the end; however, some are redundant.
At the end the author has listed more interesting facts about the animals she has included in her book. It is a wonderful picture book from cover to cover and I highly recommend it.
I received this book from Kids Can Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This will be a favorite in my school library! I adore non-fiction picture books with rich illustrations and the 2 types of text as this book has. It can be read to pre-schoolers by just reading the large text, and expanded upon for older students by reading the longer descriptive paragraphs.
Synopsis
This visual aspects (aka the illustrations) of this nonfiction book, even in the ebook, are wonderful! The text and illustrations are wonderfully connected through a rhythmic question and answer format in the book. In addition to the comparison between the animals and how we handle our family.
Summary and rating of 4.5
Wonderful! Wonderful! This was a really good book and a great mentor book to illustrate rhythm and comparison to the students. I think that teachers will have a wonderful time with this book.
This ARC has been given to me by Kids Can Press via Netgalley
Animals Do, Too! introduces kids to how wild animals and humans are alike. We dance, grow food, play tag, and blow bubbles. And guess what? Animals do too! The picture book also explains how, in the animal world, these activities serve other purposes too like practicing evading predators or creating a nest for their eggs.
Animal lovers will appreciate learning about these human-animal world connections.