Dr. Brenda Parkes has written many books for children as well as a professional book for teachers about shared reading. She has taught in New Zealand and Australia and spent twenty years as a teacher educator at Griffith University, Queensland.
Alternate cover, which I seem to be good at finding for books:
This is another 8-page book, which is not particularly good value for books, I think. I don't know a single reader who LOVES what are basically pamphlets, and they aren't that engaging for the two minutes it takes even a young reader to get through the book. Like, something more along the lines of The Fascinating Animal Book for Kids would be a much better value, especially if it's on sale (I currently see $9 USD on Amazon), since it has a lot more animals and is probably bigger, with better photos.
THIS one gets the facts wrong from page 1! (or, well... page 2, since page 1 is the title page)
That is a GRUB! *Very* different from a worm!
Also, this is just my own quirk, but when I see
I have this one brain cell that thinks of nothing but how the bloodthirsty buggers eat voles instead.
Because my brain is contrary that way, haha.
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I don't know. I think by definition, 8-page books are three-star at BEST. This isn't BAD, but neither is it particularly GOOD, even with the "kicker" ().["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>["br"]>