Thursday, February 9, 2012

Animalia

Animalia is a really fun book to read. It goes through the whole alphabet in an interesting format. "An Armoured Armadillo Avoiding An Angry Alligator" and "Beautiful BLUE BUTTERFLIES basking by a BABBLING BROOK", are the first two pages of Animalia. The entire alphabet is represented in this format and some of the pages are just amazing. The pictures in the book are so detailed and have so much to look at, the pictures of each page also relate to the letter of that page as well. For instance on the G page there are gorillas, goats, giraffes, guitars, etc. The book also has a search for a kid, who I believe is the author. It's a lot of fun to look through the pages of the book for the kid and be able to see all the interesting objects on each page.

This book can be used for all ages, young children will have a really hard time understanding the vocabulary on some of the pages because I know that I did. "Victor V. Vulture the Vaudeville Ventriloquist-Versatile Virtuoso of Vociferous Verbosity-Vexatiously Vocalizing at the Valhalla Variety Venue" is an example of one of those pages. Just because children may not be able to read it doesn't mean they cant see all of the pictures that start with the letters related to the page, or can't just look through each page and recognize letter sequence. This book is really fun and very interesting to look at, I would recommend that everyone find this book!

1 comment:

  1. I am glad that you included an excerpt from the text so that we could understand how the text would be challenging for some readers. I agree with you that they can still enjoy the readers, and they will probably love the word play if someone reads it to them.

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