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*More Life-Size Zoo: An All-New Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia* by Kristin Earhart, Teruyuki Komiya and Toshimitsu Matsuhashi
 
Also by Teruyuki Komiya and Toshimitsu Matsuhashi:

Life-Size Aquarium
More Life-Size Zoo: An All-New Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia by Kristin Earhart, Teruyuki Komiya and Toshimitsu Matsuhashi
Grades K-2 48 pages Seven Footer Press June 2010 Hardcover    

Kids looking to curl up with a good book will love More Life-Size Zoo, a vibrant collection of life-size photographs of animals in a zoo, along with some basic (and some not-so-basic) facts about each.

This jumbo book is both a true-to-life picture book (with flaps that reveal some poster-sized photographs) and an encyclopedia of knowledge, making it destined to become one of “those” books that little ones insist on having read to them over and over and over again.

Some of the animals will be familiar, such as a wolf (which the book notes has a powerful jaw for eating and a long tongue to keep itself clean) and the gigantic cheetah with spots (which the books notes are important to the animal so it can blend into the tall grass).

Even for the more common animals pictured, readers will likely learn something new about them, such as that the fact that a kangaroo lives in its mother’s pouch for the entire first year of its life, and a bison might weigh as much as four hundred pounds by the time it reaches its first birthday.

Other more obscure animals are also showcased, such as the gibbon with its long arms and fingers to swing from trees, and the wombat, which has the face of a koala and body that resembles a bear.

Since the photographs of the animals are shown to scale, this necessitates a number of pages being unfolded to accommodate their size. This holds true for the photographs of the polar bear and the lion, as well as the hippo - hardly a surprise, since the book notes it is the second largest land animal (following close behind the elephant, which leads the pack).

The photographs are crisp and clear, highlighting both the size of the animals as well as the tiniest details, such as the wrinkles and hair that protrude from the face of a hippo. More Life-Size Zoo is one of those books that represents the simple pleasures of reading and the ability of book to educate and entertain, and also to take its readers on an adventure without even requiring them to leave the comforts of home.
 


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