About Mollusks: A Guide for Children (About... (Peachtree))
Kindergarten-Grade 2–This attractive title consists mainly of large, realistic watercolors, each accompanied by a sentence or two of simply written text. It concludes with a sort of field guide with extra data on the featured creatures. (A single carp–the Hopkins' Rose is not identified as a sea slug until the afterword.) Less detailed than Beth Blaxland's busyMollusks: Snails, Clams, and Their Relatives(Chelsea House, 2003), and simpler than Joy Richardson'sMollusks(Watts, 1993), this handsome look at a cast of lowly characters is a rewarding slice of the biodiversity pie.–Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NYCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.