About Rodents: A Guide for Children
Kindergarten-Grade 4—This attractive volume succeeds on many levels. Simple sentences introduce various types of rodents with vocabulary and grammar suitable for beginning readers or reading aloud. A detailed afterword provides fuller descriptions for older readers looking for information for reports. And the distinguished full-page watercolor plates of the rodents in the wild will have universal appeal. One picture with particular charm shows a white-throated woodrat collecting a small silver key and whisking it away to its nest—a symbol of the close link between rodents and humans. This is a fine entry in the Sills's series and is perfect for collections that are looking for quality nonfiction about a resilient family that is so much more than mice and rats.—Kara Schaff Dean, Walpole Public Library, MACopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.