This fun and entertaining non-fiction children's book tells about several pairs of animals who help each other and work together to adapt to their habitat. Displaying the term symbiosis powerfully with several concrete examples, this book shows that animals can work together to solve many problems, including hunting together, feeding off bothersome bugs and looking out for one another. With intriguing illustrations, funny thought and speech bubbles, and fact boxes to give more background information, I could see this book keeping young readers entertained and interested for hours. As a grade 3 teacher I could definitely see this book in my classroom and would love to use it as an introduction to lessons on symbiosis in Science. I would recommend this book to parents, teachers and librarians of students in the 5-12 age range. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this great book!

This is a beautiful book about animal relationships. The comic-book-style illustrations will hook a young reader in quickly. The pages are full of facts and science about animal relationships to be an excellent addition to any non-fiction library. The glossary in the back of the book is helpful to younger readers and vocabulary development.

The illustrations were good. I like the concept. But it was too long for me and with too many speech bubbles.

This was an adorable book about pairs of animals who are friends in the wild. The book has beautiful illustrations and is filled with educational animal information. The book presents each pair in a fictional manner first where they're talking and being silly with one another. Next, there are facts and information about the animals. This is quite a long book and I would use it as more of a reference book versus a read aloud. Kids will enjoy sitting and jumping around to different pairs to read about the friend groups. I love books like this because it would be great in a science classroom! It would fit well in any elementary classroom but would also be fun for kids to explore during a science unit. It's great when books can be incorporated into all classrooms. Would also be a favorite at home for families to read about various animals together!

I enjoyed this book and I think I would love it as a child. The illustrations are really nice and the topic is interesting. I didn't know most of the information in this book, and the symbiotic or parasitic relationships between different animal species are truly interesting.

What brings my rating of this book down a bit are the wanna-be-funny double-pages that are anthropomorphic portrayals of the animals having parties, taking pictures together etc. and precede the actual info about how the two animals interact with each other in real life. So there is always a not serious double-page and then a double-page talking about the reality. On one hand sure it's a book for kids, but on the other kids are not stupid and can enjoy an informative book without the actual information being watered down by jokes. The scientific facts are usually just one side of the double-page and on the other are the two animals talking to each other about the fact, in a nice and understandable manner. This could suffice as the kid-friendly part and not disrupt the flow of the book like the joke pages.

Despite that, it's still a nice book and I especially liked the glossary at the end, which explains more difficult words the child might not know. For a kid that likes animals and weird animal facts, especially if they like animal jokes and picture books with a little bit of humour, this might be a good book.

The artwork in this book is really lovely and engaging. There is a lot of information about animal relationships that young animal-lovers will find interesting. I think I would prefer the book if it didn't have the made up scenarios where the animals are playing games and then the author has to explain that the animals don't actually play hide-and-seek together, etc. Seems like a confusing element in a fact-based book. Kids might find that amusing though. Overall, great book that I'd recommend to young patrons who are interested in animals.