Forest

by Deborah Lock, Lorrie Mack

Full-color photography and clearly written text introduce characteristics of different kinds of forests found around the world, the plants and animals that populate them, and how they are endangered.

Genres: Science

48 pages, Hardcover

First published December 29, 2003

Reviews

[Caroline Fields · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genre: nonfiction
Awards:
Age: 3rd-6th
A. The topic of this book is forests.
B. Eye Wonder books use a ton of pictures to draw in a young reader's attention. They use different style, size, and color fonts, and they provide a glossary for words that a student may not know.
C. This book has diagrams, boldface print, headings and subheadings, a glossary and an index.
D. This book could be used as a supplemental resource during a science lesson or as a reference source for a student doing research.

[The other John · Rating 3 out of 5]

For the most part, reading my kids' books is a chore. Many of the volumes are well written, good quality books, but the bottom line is that they're children's books. They don't satisfy my grown up intellect, nor do they usually offer the entertainment I get from literary brain candy. There are exceptions of course, the most frequent being what the wife calls discovery books. Discovery books offer lots of pictures, peppered with little factoids. If the young'uns leave one sitting around, I'll invariably pick it up and start perusing it. Anyway, Forest is such a discovery book, published by the masters of discovery books Dorling Kindersley. The book is about forests, of course, with colorful spreads about each type of forest in the world and the creatures that inhabit them. (You also have the obligatory environmental pages, to indoctrinate your children into saving the planet... or at least limit their depredation of the same.) It's a really nice book, though the pre-press artist in me would quibble on some of the photo montages. Hopefully, you have kids, so you'll have a perfect excuse to check it out.

[Matthew Mealer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book that goes in depth about forests and the animals that live in them. Great when talking about ecosystems and nature. Very informational.