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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2006
K-Gr 3 This engaging title is informative as well as visually stunning. Jenkins captures the essence of his subjects with appropriately colored, cut-paper collage illustrations on stark white backgrounds. Each endangered animal is introduced in a single paragraph that typically contains a fact or two about its range, behavior, diet, and those conditions that threaten its welfare. The actual number remaining is ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2006
Jenkins brings his signature collage illustrations and interest in animals to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. The book begins with a brief discussion of the interdependence of living things, then goes on to portray twenty-eight endangered and extinct animals. Each profile includes one of Jenkins's striking cut-paper renderings of an animal, a parag...Log In or Sign Up to Read More