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Butterfly or Moth?
How can you tell a butterfly from a moth? What is the difference? With colorful photographs and simple language, author Melissa Stewart shows young readers how to identify these animals using critical thinking skills. Readers find all the tips and hints they need to tell these two animals apart.
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As each book's subtitle ("How Do You Know?') states, this series attempts to clear up common confusions when distinguishing between two similar kinds of animals. Two-page spreads ask a simple question superimposed on bright, detailed close-up photographs of the animal or body part. Answers and subsequent questions are found in easy to read, colored circles. A summary page presents a photo of each animal with specific information labeled. An additional chapter includes a page that gives one more interesting fact about each animal. What makes this series so outstanding is the excellent close-up photography. Readers can easily see the differences between the animals without being bogged down by overwhelming text. These high quality books would be a welcome addition to an elementary animal science collection. They will be appreciated by animal lovers browsing the collection and classroom teachers presenting a beginning lesson on animal biology. A creative language arts teacher might even employ these volumes in a unit on opposites/antonyms and synonyms, drawing parallels from the animal world. Bibliography. Glossary. Websites. Index., Library Media Connection August/September 2011
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