Review: Worthwhile Download
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 7, 2013
50 Coolest Sharks is certainly an interesting and entertaining book for anyone who likes reading about sharks. The digital book has a consistent format with quick facts first, followed by several screens of text. For each shark there are multiple color photographs or illustrations. On my device I wasn't able to enlarge the pictures by using the spreading fingers technique. At the beginning of the book are several hot links to shark sites, one of which is fabulous.Middle school readers should have no difficulty navigating this book. I like that the author uses context clues and inserted definitions for some more difficult terms. My teacher side noticed a handful of grammatical errors that could be edited out, but I doubt many middle schoolers will notice these or even care about a misuse of lie-lay. I like the author's writing style that uses a variety of sentence structures and patterns; I may even used some of the segments as models for students who are working on sentence variety.The book could be even better with the addition of a multiple choice shark quiz at book's end. Maybe that could be added at a later date.