Review: Engaging Captioned Photos, Interesting Factoids....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2012
I have several of Kay de Silva's books in her "Our Amazing World Series" and have enjoyed learning new things about the various species.This book is filled with factoids about whales.  However, what makes this book are the captioned photos.  Most of the whales are shown up close and in detail.  I was intrigued by the picture showing Baleen whales as I never knew that some whales had comb like teeth.The book is set up to first tell some generic whale facts followed by photos and facts of individual whale species.  While I find the simple sentence structure a bit off and stilted, it would make it easier for a new reader to read on his own.It has a clickable Table of Contents.The format consists of a concept title, a photo and a small factoid paragraph.  The ratio between photo and sentence is about 4:1.I viewed this on a 17" screen using both the Kindle App for PC, the Cloud Viewer and an iPad with the following results:KINDLE FOR PC: the illustrations seem small for a children's book and cannot be enlarged (about 1/3 of a page). The concept title, photograph and factoid paragraph can be seen on one page.CLOUD READER: Even with the smallest font and the largest margin, I cannot get the title, photo and factoid paragraph on the same page. It usually took three pages per concept.iPAD: While reading the story the illustration fills about 1/4 of the page, however to see more all you need to do is tap the picture and it will enlarge to fill the entire screen.  When normal the title, photo and factoid paragraph are all on one page.I highly recommend this book.ETA: Add multiple format information.