Review: Very interesting reading and educational!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
This is a very good and well written book from Emma Child.  I have reviewed several of her books and this one is one of the best.  It contains detailed photos and in depth details about snakes.  Like all of Emma's books it is educational and entertaining.  It is full of details on how snakes differ from us in their physical nature and how they move and survive without having hands and feet.  They can even climb trees!  Great now I will always be looking up for them!Some of the great details are:* A snake's throat is about 1/3 the length of its body* Snakes don't chew their food as they swallow it whole* Snakes have a backbone but they have 200 to 400 vertebrae and we only have 33* Snakes can move in 4 different ways* Snakes do not have ears* Snakes use their tongue to smell things in the air* There are 2700 different species of snakes and only 375 are poisonous* Some snakes can be 38 feet long and weigh 550 poundsThere are hundreds of more details in this book that as an adult I found very interesting.  I don't like snakes and I was totally absorbed in reading all of the details included in the book.  There is even a great pictorial about the anatomy of a snake.Emma's books are ideal for a child to read or for you to read them to the child.  Her books are educational and children like the topics that she writes about.  I particularly liked this book and I recommend it to you.  I rated it at 5 stars.I downloaded this book for free as it was a promotion on Amazon.