Review: 3.5 (if I could)  Introduction to Penguins...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2013
I have several of Kay de Silva's books from her "Our Amazing World" Series.  While I enjoyed the facts in this book I found the illustration to Sentence ratio too low, which led to many pages not having photographs.  I was also slightly disappointed in the illustrations as not all of these photos had as much awe factor as some of her other books.  Even with these issues, I enjoyed the book.This book not only covers penguins in general, but also gives more detailed information regarding 9 of the 17 species of penguins.She talks about their habitats, touches upon mating habits and hatching their young.  I would have liked to have seen more of their everyday life, but I realize that would have increased the file size.All of the photographs are captioned and various species of penguins are labeled and shown throughout the book.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. You can see the concept title, photograph and concept factoids 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.  However, by manipulating the margin size the photo can be enlarged to fit most of the screen.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, (enlarged photo best scene on landscape orientation). Even in Portrait orientation many of the concept "chapters" cannot be viewed on one page.  Therefore I recommend reading in landscape orientation so that you don't have to keep turning it to enlarge the photo to fill the full screen.Part of the problem is caused by extra large spaces between paragraphs.This book has a clickable Table of Contents.I recommend this book.