Thirty-three different types of animals in this second volume by Blue Star
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This is the second volume of Animal Designs by Blue Star.  The designs are quite lovely and are full of intricate twists and turns.  There are a number of distinctive design styles which makes me think that there are more than one designer involved with drawing these 33 animals.  Some of the designs are bold with broad strokes of the pen while others have an almost delicate quality to them.

The book is printed on a decent quality of paper and, thankfully, the designs are printed on one side of the page with the backside left blank.  That means I can have my choice of types of medium to color them with but I will definitely put a piece of freezer paper or cardstock behind the page as I work.  While the pages are not perforated, it doesn't appear that it will be difficult to remove them from the binding. The designs are centered on the page with lots of blank space left on all sides, so you won't get a cramped hand while trying to color in the last bits next to the binding.

There is a large assortment of animal designs, including the lion on the cover, wolf, seahorse, ram, peacock, owl, swan, and even a pig.  There are so many more that you will probably find several of your favorites included.

I love the relaxation that I obtain when I have been coloring.  It is almost a form of meditation for me.  I focus on the design and let everything else release from my thoughts.  It is a wonderful way to end the day on a good note.
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The whole family enjoys this book.  If you are an animal lover, then you will find this book fascinating.  This book has a lot of animals listed in this book that I didn't even know existed.
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Here's what's included in this book:

Sheep/Lamb

Girl Figure

Boy Figure

Cow (head)

Little Pig 1

Little Pig 2

Little Pig 3

Blackbird Jack

Blackbird Jill

Kitten

Cat

Cow (standing)

Dog (sitting)

Bee

Mitten

Mouse

Clock

Dog (head)

Robin

Ladybug

Humpty Dumpty

Blind Mouse

Three Men in a Tub

Fish

Monkey

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
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Killer Whales (2000), written by killer whale experts John Ford, Graeme Ellis, and Ken Balcomb, provides an overview of the three "eco-types" of killer whales in the Pacific Northwest: the offshore, transient (mammal-eating), and resident (fish-eating) populations, with a focus on the latter type - transients are covered in the companion book Transients (1999), by the first two authors of this book. The book is divided into five chapters which describe the various differences between the three populations (e.g. appearance, diet, social structure, dialects, and occurrence), detail the social structure of resident orcas (from matrilines to communities), tell you where you can see killer whales, presents a photographic catalogue of resident killer whales to allow you to individually identify them in the field, and finally covers conservation concerns (including the availability of food, pollutants, and vessel disturbance) and their future prospects. "Sidebars" or interludes cover such topics as telling apart the three eco-types, how to differentiate males from females, and genetics. The book includes a number of (mainly) black-and-white photographs, several maps, a glossary, and a bibliography. Along with Transients (1999), this work offers a great resource for those wishing to learn more about killer whales in the Pacific Northwest.
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As the sun and the moon travel across the sky, learn how twelve different desert animals face the difficulty of stay clean in a dray and parched land. Explore the desert habitat through its animals and their habits of hygiene. Darcy Pattison and Kathleen Rietz team up again to explore the desert to find out how snakes, spiders, and birds bathe.

Desert Baths begins at dawn as the Turkey Vulture turns to the east and takes a sunbath. Eleven more desert animals will have taken a bath unique to themselves by the end of the book. The text explains the techniques and often the whys of each animals bathing. The twelve spreads, filled from edge-to-edge with Ms. Rietz's realistic watercolor paintings, brings the book and all its biology and ecology to life.

The texts are written in lyrical prose that smoothing flow off the tongue, making the book easy to read. You will learn of the interesting habits of these often-unusual animals and that not every creature uses soap and water. In fact, not all have easy access to water. Some have none.

Desert Baths is a must have for the classroom. In the back of the book are eight additional pages of information that enhances that of the book. This includes Fun Facts  delves further into the animal habitats found in the desert. There is also a map of North America showing the deserts of the region (four: Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahua), a quick quiz and a section on using the sun to tell time.

I like this book because it has lots of information, is beautifully illustrated, and would make a great resource for a report or a classroom lesson on the desert, desert animals, or lack of water. Libraries should grab this book, especially those in a desert region. Kids who like animals of all types will like Desert Baths.  This book is also available in Spanish.

Do you know? (True or False?) Scaled quail put ants on their feathers because ants drop an acid that helps protect the bird's skin?

received from author in exchange for a review (true)
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I am happy to write a review on the book "Top 20 Most Lovable Animals On The Planet," by Speedy Publishing. This is a great little book filled with stimulating educational information and stimulating excellent quality pictures that correspond with each other to help children learn. The pictures are excellent clear quality pictures that grab the attention of younger children. This is a quality fun educational book filled with many little basic interesting facts about different animals.
Some of the things you will learn in this book:
--> How long have cats and humans associated?
--> How many breeds of dogs is there?
--> Where do foxes have whiskers?
--> Are dolphins intelligent?
--> Where are the horses eyes located?
--> What do Koalas eat?
--> What is the name for the male guinea pig?
--> What is the largest of all bear species?
--> Can parrots imitate human voices?
--> Are parrots intelligent?
--> How long can a seal hold its breathe?
--> How much can a giraffe weigh?
And there is so much more in this great little book for children. I highly recommend this book for smaller children. I am an honest individual consumer who has written a honest review on this book. I am not associated with any company relating to this book.
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There are about 30 color plates of dogs in art, which are lovely. However, the black and white photographs which head the section on each breed are of very poor quality, many of them blurry or fuzzy. It's difficult to get a clear idea of what the breed really looks like. The information, as usual, is complete and well-organized. This refers to the new 20th Edition, which I just purchased.
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THE BASICS: hardcover; 220+ excellent color photos of 200 species along wit some habitat types; minimal text for each bird is restricted to brief captions alongside the photo

THE REVIEW:
There are 2-3 outstanding books that show Ecuadors birds with awesome photographs.  This is one of those books (see also "Birds in Ecuador" by Bartley or "Aves de mi Tierra" by Letort).  This book accomplishes what the author set out to do, which is to show, with high quality, a wide selection of birds from five principal eco-regions of Ecuador.  What makes this book even more impressive is the author took the challenge of using only natural lighting  no flashes allowed!  This seems even more daunting when you consider the excellent photos of the antpittas and antbirds in this book.

In this book are 220+ photographs of 200 species of birds along with some photos of the habitat types in Ecuador.  The species shown in the book account for at least 54 families of the nearly 85 that can be found in Ecuador.  Nearly every photo is of high quality.  Their vivid colors, up-close poses, and large size make them very enjoyable.  The variety of poses the author/photographer is able to obtain is remarkable.  There are birds sitting on the nest, feeding young, peering around a mossy branch, or flying past.  One photo that grabs my attention is not the most colorful or elegant, but the one that begs the question howd he manage that?  On page 161, is a photograph of not just a tapaculo, but a tapaculo at its nest feeding a juvenile.  Come on, is that possible?  No flash?  Im simply impressed he actually saw the skulking little bird.  One other notable picture, just for the rarity of the bird, is a Pale-headed Brush-Finch which is critically endangered, endemic to Ecuador, and found in only a limited area.  This bird is found on p234.

One other key factor that makes these photographs so enjoyable is their large sizes.  Many of the photos take up an entire page of this large book (12x12 inches).  A few of the photos even span both pages.

The birds are arranged into five eco-regions.  These are Amazon, Eastern Andes, High Andes, Choco Rainforest, and Coastline & Dry Tropical Forest.  The birds are not arranged in any particular taxonomic order within the categories.  This is fine, until you want to go back later and find a specific bird.  This task is made a little more tedious since there is no index in this book.  To find a bird, you must thumb through until you relocate it.  This is the reason I provided page numbers for some of the birds mentioned above.

Regarding written material, there is very little in this book.  The focus is on the photographs.  Accompanying each picture is a brief caption that gives the birds name and some brief commentaries.  These notes may address the plants at which the bird is photographed, some behavioral aspects about the bird, or maybe some feeding preferences.  The only other text in the book is a single introductory page for each of the five eco-regions.  This material provides a nice overview of the habitat and climate in the region along with a brief account of some of the species found in the area.

This is one of those must have books if you are intrigues with tropical birding or, just birding in general.  The photos are excellent.  (written by Jack at Avian Review with sample pages, December 2009)
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Beautiful color photos and very interesting information about the animals! Well done!! I wish this was available for my Kindle Fire!!
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Francois Bissonnette is an enjoyable writer of many different kinds of child-friendly, very interesting, and informative books. With this volume, he has done it again, and did it very well.
He gives children - and adults too - fascinating information about zebras and antelopes, information they did not know and want to know. Among a host other items, he tells us that there are three kinds of zebras, each is different, and the stripes of each zebra even in the same species is different, as are finger-prints. He tells us about their bodies, how tall they are and how much they weigh; how they fast they run and how they avoid predators; what they eat; have a 350 degree range of eye-sight, but cannot see what is directly in front or in back of them; how long they live in the wild and in captivity, living a third longer in captivity; how they show affection, and more. He shows us many pictures of zebras doing many different things, such as caring for their young and how they show affection.
He gives us the same kind of detailed interesting information about antelopes.
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Did you know that blue has long been the favored color from around the world and it's most popular color. What are some things you know are blue? This book has pictures of blue animals and descriptions of those animals including what they use the blue color for in some cases. Just like all the other books in this series of Animal Encyclopedia's from baby professor the pictures are magnificent and the text easy and simple to read. Awesome books for home schooled youngsters needing a different view from textbooks or something else to read to enhance their science experience. My grandson is in 2nd grade and home schooled he is an avid reader just like his mom and aunt. He loves books with great pictures that can help him send him on his way through his imagination to far off lands and make up stories for himself and his family.
I highly recommend this book for your youngster for a great new animal book as well as a science book.
My grandson is in 2nd grade, is an avid reader, he reads way above his school grade. He told me that vivid pictures allow him to use his imagine to transport him to another place and time. He would love to have this book in print to add to his extensive library, I may have to buy it for him and I am very willing to do so.

***I am grateful to have received this product for a discounted rate in exchange for my personal, honest, unbiased and non-compensated review.
Please if you found this review helpful in making your decisions, please press the Yes button below.
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I just received this ebook Green Animals On The Planet and absolutely LOVE it!!! I really like the choices of the animals that they included in this book.  You have animals that are bright green all over their body all the way down to only having a little bit of green just on part of their body.  The photos are clear and crisp and it is easy to see the detail of the animals.  There is a title of what the animal is called and then there are short descriptions of what the animal is and what it does.  It then follows it up with just a couple of facts about the animals.  It is not very in depth information so due to this, I would put the age range of the book for kids that would really enjoy it from birth up to age 8 or 9.  I have small children and they loved looking at the animals in this book along with me.  My 8 year old liked learning a little about the animals but just like with the book Yellow Animals On The Planet, the descriptions only include a couple of facts about the animals so my 10 year old lost interest a little faster.  He did say that he liked the photos though!  I don't see the smaller descriptions as a negative in any way, I just wanted you to know that it does not include a lot of information on each animal.  As long as you are not expecting that I think that you will thoroughly enjoy the book.

I received this book for free in exchange for my honest and unbiased review. I gave this book a five out of five stars because I love the bright beautiful colors and the basic descriptions that make the book a joy for my 8 year old to read and my littler ones to look at the photos!
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This book was reviewed by my 8 year old son for Mother Daughter Book Reviews.

SON SAYS:

This book is about a bunch of animals that are like, the biggest, the deadliest, the smallest, the fastest, the slowest, the weirdest and stuff like that.  Its a big book with lots of information about animals that I know about already and lots that I had never seen before.

I really love all of the pictures and the cover and I spend a lot of time flipping through the book just looking at the pictures.  One of my favorites is of the sun bear.  Its funny because it has a really long tongue (154).  Another really cool picture is the one of the basset hound and the clumber spaniel because it looks like they are wearing a jacket.  Their skin is sagging and they look floppy. (105). There are some pictures that are really cool, but really weird, like the picture of the Japanese giant salamander (23).

I really like looking at the pictures and learning about animals. There are animals Ive never heard of before and I liked learning about them.  The goblin sharks looks evil; luckily they swim very deep in the ocean (1,300 meters).  I liked the section about Killer Instincts that talked about how animals kill things like, death by drowing (crocodile), death by stomping (?), death by swiping (polar bear), death by chomping (?, death by confusion (black eagle), and death by electrocution (?).

The book was really good and I want to read more books like this one.  I think kids 4 years and older would love this book.

* This book was provided to us by the publisher free-of-charge in exchange for our honest reviews. All opinions expressed are our own. *
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I purchased this book for my grandson. He was so amazed at how many different animals this book reviewed. It is a very nice book and has so much information in it. Such an interesting book for all ages. So many different facts on so many animals. He is always telling me different facts about animals he has read about in his book. He is 8 yrs. old and watches all varieties of living creatures on TV. I was so sure he would love this book and I was right. This is one of the best purchases I have made. The book is large, hardback and very well made. You can't go wrong when you purchase a National Geographic book. Also fast shipping.
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The photos in this book are not only colorful but have been taken at a close range so that we can see lot's of detail.  The photos show a wide variety of starfish and include some photos taken of specific body parts that are discussed.

The writing is done in simplistic sentences that could easily be read by 2nd grade child.  The book discusses why a starfish is not a fish, how it eats, how it moves as well as it's various body parts.

Personally I would have liked to know about what starfish are if they are not fish, baby starfish and actually see a photo of the stomach when it is pushed out for eating.

I highly recommend this colorful, simply written, informative Level 2 reader.
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SUMMARY:  Each page of this book shows a group of animals, gives their group name and tells a little bit about them.  For instance, a group of peacocks is called an ostentation and often live in groups with one male and several females.

ILLUSTRATIONS:  The illustrations were created in mixed media including with fabric and feathers.  They are unique and quite gorgeous and fun to look at.  I especially enjoyed the happy camels and the peacocks with their beautiful feathers.

THE GOOD:  There is some very good and short information about each group of animals in this book.  The facts are not necessarily widely known such as female elephants living separately from the bull elephants.  This is an excellent book to share with a child who loves animals and is especially a great book for the classroom.  This would be the perfect addition to a unit on animals.
THE NOT AS GOOD:  The font has two problems.  One, the titles of the animal groups are written in very fancy cursive.  It is difficult to read.  Second, the font is very very small.  I feel there was plenty of room to make that font just a little bigger for children (and adults!) who will be reading this by themselves.

AGE RECOMMENDATION:  Advertised for ages 3-7, but I think the high vocabulary lends itself better to grades 1-3.

NOTE:  I received a free ARC copy from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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A fun picture book that takes the reader into the world of a cute little puppy called Coco. The book is full of gorgeous photos of Coco, while teaching the reader some very helpful puppy care basics at the same time. A very enjoyable read.