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Book by Stone, Lynn M.
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Reviewed with Lynn Stone's The Food Chain.
Gr. 2-3. These books in the Under the Sea series are small in format but full of facts. There are, however, some flaws, sometimes in the art and sometimes in the flow of material. Food Chain introduces the concept of food as energy and briefly explains how energy is transferred. The book begins oddly ("People love the smell of bacon cooking. People enjoy eating."), but the chapters about food chains and food webs are informative. Diagrams of the concepts would have clarified the facts. Instead, photographs of random fish fill the pages. Photos aren't a problem in Partners. Crisp color shots clearly show piggybacking on one another (sometimes literally) for the benefit of one or both. Among the topics discussed are parasites, harmless partners, and partners with a symbiotic relationship. There are lots of facts here, but the text is choppy. Still, primary-graders will find these titles of interest, and the brief bibliographies and a few Web site listings will lead kids to more. Ilene Cooper
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From School Library Journal
Grade 1-3-Most spreads in these small-format books include a page of large-print text facing a glossy, close-up photograph. Of the two, Food Chain is the less successful. It provides an example of a chain, but the explanation of food webs is oversimplified. There is no discussion of the importance and complexity of the interrelationships between chains and webs, or the effects that breaks in one chain can have on the natural balance of the entire web. Patricia Lauber's Who Eats What? (HarperCollins, 1995) includes a section on sea life and gives examples of the consequences of broken food chains. Getting Around discusses how various forms of sea life move through water while providing examples of the types of movement (swimming, crawling, or drifting) and physical adaptations (body, tail, and fin shapes) that enable locomotion. Good-quality photographs illustrate the movement of marine life and some specific physical features. This title is a simplified but nonetheless successful presentation of the subject.
Cynthia M. Sturgis, Ledding Library, Milwaukie, OR
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- PublisherRourke Pub Group
- ISBN 10 1589521137
- ISBN 13 9781589521131
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages24
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