another great ABC book with big pictures. Simplistic and to the point. Students can learn animals and the abcs with this book. ( )

This is a picture book iding animals that can be found in the Amazonion regian. The pictures are good, and it is a good starting book for kids to id different animals. ( )

This is beautifully illustrated ABC book "Must Have" for any children's library collection. What I loved about this particular title is that is tactfully combines non-fiction information about the Amazon land and animals with the ABC's. Children who have an interest in the lives of insects, animals, and faraway places will find this book fascinating. The content is interdisciplinary in that it teaches the Alphabet while exposing the reader to the exotic wild life found in the Amazon. The only shortcoming in the book is that the pages only have one word and these words are hardly ever used in everyday life. For example, the author introduces the letters with strange words the child has never heard such as, "Aa/ agouti (ah-GOOT-ee)". The youngster will have a difficult time recalling "agouti" and probably has no prior knowledge of pronunciation symbols such as "(ah-GOOT-ee)". Even when the child is older, he will probably not even encounter "agouti" in standardized testing. He will however be interested in Ecology and the Amazon wild life.
Ages: 3-6 ( )