Review: Interesting Format to Give Info on Different Types of Sharks.  Great to See the Photographers Named and Given Credit Too!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2013
This is quite a good basic information book on a number of species of sharks, from all over the world, not just one part of location.  It gives a page or so of information on each shark after you've read a previous half a page or so question (so more info) describing the appearance, habitat, food source or something along those lines.  At the bottom of the first half page you are given three answer options and you the reader click on the one you believe to be correct.  They are not that hard, as an adult I didn't get any wrong as most sharks names are based on their appearance but kids may get the odd one wrong.  I deliberately made a wrong choice just to see what happens and you simply got to a page telling you sorry that was the wrong answer and a link to get you back to the previous page.  The book is basically done in the style of a simple website with links (the answers) taking you to different pages.  You don't need to be connected to Wi-Fi or anything to read it though.There's good high quality photographs of the different sharks covered and importantly the photographers are credited for their work.  So many of these kid aimed nonfiction animal Kindle book authors simply steal people's photographs from their websites or a Google search results page and not only breach copyright ownership laws but don't even acknowledge the person who spent their money on equipment, probably months out in the field (ocean) and in the case of some shark encounters, risked their life to get take the photographers.  The author then pretend there's nothing wrong with that and even at time write abusive comments on reviews pointing out what they've done.  So it's great to see authors doing the correct moral and legal thing.  If you're looking to purchase a book on sharks and want to know you're not buying pirated photographs along with content that's probably also lifted from other writers research, then Play the Shark Game is a good choice.The fact that the information is laid out as a quiz game means kids will not only learn something but probably not even realise they are.  The only downside to this way is if they were doing a school assignment or something getting straight to a particular shark is a bit time consuming.  But you can just click on the right of the page like a normal book and flip through it until you get to the right one I guess.Shark Book For Kids Play the Shark Game is well done, I highly recommend it!