In Endangered Animals, budding naturalists travel through seven habitats-from polar regions to the rain forest and beyond-exploring the issues that affect the animal kingdom's ability to survive and thrive. The book highlights more than seventy species that are struggling due to climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and other challenges, alongside species that are thriving thanks to conservation efforts. Each habitat includes fascinating facts, a search-and-find scene, and "how you can help" tips that show children how they can make a difference.

I loved this informative and challenging book.
It calls kiddos to action which is excellent.
I love how it helps children understand that they can help.

I am not quite sure about my feelings toward this book. The authors are absolutely well intentioned. Even in the relatively sparse text, you can tell that they care about the planet and our endangered species. It starts with a very brief introduction discusses what endangered animals are and gives different levels of endangerment severity. After this, the book is essentially divided into types of areas or ecosystems, like forests, oceans, and savannas. The first two pages on each ecosystem show a diagonal line from the least endangered animals to the extinct ones for that habitat. They give one or two for each endangerment category. The next two pages on the particular ecosystem show all the animals from the previous spread on the left-hand page and have an illustrated scene on the right where the child is supposed to pick out the different animals in the illustration. Part of the problem with this book is that the animals and the scene are all monochrome. In some sections’ scenes, the animals are very hard to pick out because they are mostly solid colored as is much of the background.

The book would be appropriate for children who have good reading skills, perhaps ages 7 to 11. I think the book would have been more interesting if actual photos were used on the two-page spread with the diagonal line instead of monochrome illustrations. If they wanted to then use stylized illustrations of the animals so they could be found in a drawing, that would have been perfectly okay. I also wish that the scenes, as mentioned above, were not so monochrome as this made it difficult sometimes to differentiate between the background and animals. The book does give suggestions throughout the book about ways the child can decrease her or his footprint or just be more aware of environmental issues. There's also a page at the end of the book with more suggestions about what a child could do to help the environment.

Cover: 5/5
Audience: Children/Young Readers
Themes: Animals, Nature, Conservation

This is a bright and fun book with little nuggets of knowledge about endangered species. It introduces children into how endangered species are classified and breaks down some of the better known endangered species by ecosystem. It also gives easy ideas of things you can do to help! Overall, this is a gorgeous book with lots of animals and colors that I think kids would absolutely love. I really encourage and appreciate making the effort to teach young children about endangered species and environmentalism at a young age. From the rainforest to the desert and down through the ocean there's a vast variety of animals that need our help + this introduces some insects and fungi as well!

I think the idea behind this book is noble and there is a good amount of information regarding what animals are endangered but I'm not sure the layout is in the best format. This book would be appropriate and appreciated by a small child just learning about endangered animals, likely elementary school.

This is a book showing illustrations of habitats around the world and the creatures that might live in them. We learn a small amount about the environment - desert, woods, rainforest - but mainly we get to meet the animals. These are not photos and they are not always true colour. More like a silhouette with some detail, in blue or grey. I would prefer if the colours were more like life. We are told the status of the animal from not endangered on the left page over to endangered on the right and extinct on the far right. I like that as well as the familiar large animals we get birds, grasshoppers, amphibians.

Some tips for helping to minimise our effect on nature are given on each page. Young kids may have trouble seeing the connection between using less water to brush their teeth and the destruction of a rainforest. Perhaps something more directly related could be provided, like not using tropical woods nor buying imported trapped pets.

Good effort and we need all the help we can get. Parents should check the book fits with the reading age of their children, as there is not a lot of text but it's also not a simple storybook. Ages 7 - 10 should be fine.
I downloaded an e-ARC from Net Galley. This is an unbiased review.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via Netgalley and the publishers.

This is a great book for children of primary school age to introduce them to a very current subject to do with climate change and endangerment to animals.
This book gives a guide from not in danger to extinct on a chart at the start of the book and then on each section the book is divided into such as rainforest, ocean, desert etc , the book shows some animals that are divided up between the chart from extinct to not endangered.
This book has great opportunity for discussion questions and helps children understand why the animals are becoming extinct and how they could maybe help in small ways.

I loved this book the images are beautiful and it gives kids an understanding of how they can make an impact on the environment. I think it does a good job of balancing the seriousness of environmental dangers with hope that we can make a difference. I think that this would be a great gift for kids who are interested in the outdoors or who love animals.

Hmmm... This doesn't appear to be a bad activity-led primer to endangered and extinct animals, but I don't know if it will be as universally appealing as the subject clearly demands. We get two pages full of thumbnails of the animals concerned, and then a full page of monochrome art in which to spot them all. Here the design is crafted enough to look like some fancy cut-out work, which creates a distinctive look and feel to the whole thing, but would it bear repeat use? Would blunt fact and plain photography, and a variety of tasks for us, not have been better and more relevant to the audience? I don't know. This is certainly well-intentioned, and the artwork shows a lot of talent, but beyond asking us to think of specific animals in a spread of the world's different biomes, this might be a once-only affair. I'm left hoping the small nudges to environmental thinking stick.

This colorful, eye-catching book is an informative and entertaining introduction to endangered animals. Students of all grades in elementary school will enjoy and be educated by this book. Though some of the terminology may be difficult for lower grades, they will certainly still find the animal descriptions enjoyable.
The reflective questions at the end of every section will allow readers to relate to the material on a personal level and allow a smooth transition for educators to facilitate application. I would've loved to see the "How You Can Help" page explored a little more, with more reflective questions and activities. Overalll a wonderful book and great addition to any educational library.