Title: Animals in Flight
Authors/Illustrators: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
Published By: Houghton Mifflin Company
The top of one of the two pages includes just one or two
sentences set in large type, which could be read by young readers
themselves or by an adult as a read-aloud. However, the second portion of information
is set in smaller, italic type, serving as captions for the
illustrations. The third is even more of a problem for me because information even goes
deeper in either one direction or several directions, for
example, explaining the mechanics of a hummingbird's wing movement.This is great information but I think that it maybe a little to much to digest.
These text blocks are set in even smaller type accompanied by
small, computer-generated illustrations (which I don't care for I like Jenkins illustrations with his lines and texture.) As for the final pages it offers an
additional paragraphs of information on each of the animals covered. The print is really too small for anyone to
comfortably read in that last part of each page, and the effect of all the levels of information, three
different types, and the cluttered page design serves to dilute
the impact of the attractive cut-paper collages which I really like about Jenkins books. Not my favorite book that he has written.
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