20 Fun Facts About Stingrays (Fun Fact File: Fierce Fish!) - Softcover

Niver, Heather Moore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433969920 ISBN 13: 9781433969928

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library, 2012

Synopsis

Introduces the wide, flat fish, discussing its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, and defensive techniques.

About this title

From School Library Journal

Gr 2-5-With graphics designed to look like file folders, these volumes present fascinating fish facts in concise but detailed chapters that include physical descriptions, diets, habitats, and life cycles. Colorful, action-filled photos and captions that resemble "Post-It" notes clarify and add additional information, as do charts listing data about the featured fish or their "friends." Maps would have been helpful (what third grader knows where the Indo-Pacific is?) and sometimes the texts lack clarity. For example, in Lionfish, readers learn first that the creature, "isn't a fast swimmer," but a later page says, "Lionfish are very quick." Nonetheless, the series is well suited for reports, and its fearsome covers and chatty tone gives it lots of browser appeal.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

From Booklist

The Fun Fact File: Fierce Fish! series may be hard to say but it’s easy to read and pitched just right for reluctant readers. Essentially, it’s a randomly arranged, numbered list beefed up with additional facts, an arrangement ideal for browsers. The one-fact-per-page formula keeps things brisk—a table breaking down the various names, locations, and sizes of each fish serves as an intermission—and every spread is enlivened by underwater photos and fun-fact captions. The boneless Stingrays can grow up to 16.5 feet long and have been flapping through water for a good 95 million years now. Basic but snappy, these are good pit stops for first-time report writers. Grades 2-4. --Daniel Kraus

Edition details

• Publisher: Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1433969920
• ISBN 13: 9781433969928
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32