Gone Wild is a book with creative pictures. They are single letters that have the features of an animal incorporated into them. The book list twenty-six different endangered species. It lists the class, habitat, range, threats, and status of the animal. Although throughout the whole book it only list these specific items about the animal at the end of the book it gives a brief drscription of each animal. There is even sites listed at the end of the book to find out more about what organizations are helping out.

This book gave me a lot of knowledge on endangered species. I thought the pictures where very creative. I like how this book is an alphabet book but also has a lot of useful information in it. This book makes me want to join an organization and help out the endangered species.

Since this book is an alphabet book I can have the students make an alphabet book of their own. I also can have them look up an endanged species that is not listed in the book and write a small summery about the animal that they picked.

Gone Wild

Gone Wild Features the alphabet, with each letter being the first in an animal species name. Each page contains and artistic and somewhat tribal looking impression of an animal in bold black on stark white. Some facts about each species are listed for inquisitive readers, to include habitat, characteristics, and common name.
I like this book because it is a fun way to provide children with information. I think that younger children who are getting stronger in their letter recognition skills would think that it is great fun to identify animals twisted into the shapes of letters that they are learning. I do not think that this would be a good book for children that have no background in letter formation and recognition as the pictures are too complicated.
Teachers and parents could use this book as a research tool, peaking a child’s interest and prompting them to “know more”. I would group this book with internet searches and other books that feature the same animal that the child has chosen, guiding them into a writing exercise or story telling narration as the age/ability allows. Younger children may think of different objects to form letters with, noodles, crayons, beads, yarn, and practice their letter formation skills in a more tactile manner.

Gone Wild Features the alphabet, with each letter being the first in an animal species name. Each page contains and artistic and somewhat tribal looking impression of an animal in bold black on stark white. Some facts about each species are listed for inquisitive readers, to include habitat, characteristics, and common name.
I like this book because it is a fun way to provide children with information. I think that younger children who are getting stronger in their letter recognition skills would think that it is great fun to identify animals twisted into the shapes of letters that they are learning. I do not think that this would be a good book for children that have no background in letter formation and recognition as the pictures are too complicated.
Teachers and parents could use this book as a research tool, peaking a child’s interest and prompting them to “know more”. I would group this book with internet searches and other books that feature the same animal that the child has chosen, guiding them into a writing exercise or story telling narration as the age/ability allows. Younger children may think of different objects to form letters with, noodles, crayons, beads, yarn, and practice their letter formation skills in a more tactile manner.

A very informational alphabet book about endangered animals. The letters of the alphabet are cleverly crafted to resemble a part of the animal it is referring to. Each page has a box that gives a brief description of the animal's class, habitat, range, threats, and status. The last pages of the book give further information about each animal in sentence structure.

My first reaction when I opened the book and flipped through the pages was one of astonishment. The book was nothing I thought it was going to be like. Honestly I was a little disappointed. Most of the alphabet books I have read have big, colorful pictures, however, the author only uses the colors red, white, and black in his illustrations. After reading the book I was rewarded with an abundance of insightful and interesting information.

This would be a good book to read while studying a lesson about endangered animals. A teacher could get a map and the class could put pins in all the places that the animals are from. This could help the students visualize the wide range of the endangered animals. Students could also pick a letter of the alphabet, research a threatened animal that starts with that letter, and make their own illustration with pertinent information like the story. ( )

Gone Wild, by David McLimans is a picture book that uses animals to explore the alphabet. The black and white contrasting pictures are a brilliant way to move through the alphabet and on each animal a list of scientific facts is presented.

I do not believe that this book would be a good choice to read aloud to young listeners. There is no story to follow and I believe that they would get bored quickly.

This would be a great resource book for a science project on animals. There are several facts on each page about the animal featured. This book would also be good to follow along with learning the alphabet. There are great pictures to capture their attention and fun facts to listen to.

I thought that this book was really interesting how it incorporated the alphabet and interesting animal facts about endangered animals. The illustrations were done in basic colors and the detail was wonderful. ( )

There are more that 5,000 animals that face extinction today. This book takes you through the alphabet, highlighting a variety of animals that are either critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable.

The introduction discusses our plants and animal life. It also explains the different levels of endangered statuses. Each letter is a drawing incorporating the shape of an endangered animal. There is also a legend on each page giving brief facts such as its habitat and level of endangered status. At the end is further information about each animal. The illustrations are ink drawings that very clearly and simply showcase the animal being portrayed.

An ABC book done in black and white. Each letter is made to look like a different endangered animal. More back ground information is also given about each animal. Beautiful, creative renderings of each letter. ( )

This is a great alphabet book that also teaches about endangered animals. The illustrations are black and white letters in the shapes of animals. I can see this book being very useful at many age levels. It could be fun at a kinder to first grade level to talk about the letters and what animal they are shaped like. It could be used at the upper elementary level to talk about what is an endangered animal. I can see it used at a middle school level to talk about different classifications of animals like the class, phylum, etc. ( )

Probably one of the best ABC's book I have seen in a long time. This book uses black and white pictures where the letters form the shape of an animal. It could be used for a variety of age groups as it continues to give information on the animals as you come across them in the book. Great book to be used with Biology students and would allow students to complete many extension projects that could be associated with it.

Gone Wild is a very creative alphabete book. It goes through every letter and names an animal that matches the letter. Along with showing the animal it gives you 6 different categories of information. This would be useful to older children as it explains the class, phylum, etc.
This book to me is one of the best alphabete books I have ever seen. One thing that I wanted to show and read to my 6 month old are books like this one, where you have all the information right on the page and can teach them early. I love the idea of black and white because when I was little there were not books like that and my mom said I ever paid attention to what was being read instead I could list all the colors onthe page.
I think for a younger class this book would be a great tool with the animal biology unit, they could draw their own animals for each letter and guess what the animals are on the page (since they are the shape of the letters). For an older classroom I would use this with the biology unit and have them name all the extra stuff or do a research paper over one animal.

Gone Wild introduces the alphabet and endangered species to the reader by making the lettters shaped by representations of the animals. It gives background information of the animal such as the threats the animal faces, the habitat, status, and class of the animal, and the range of where it lives.

I believe this book is bery interesting in that it introduces so many different things at one time. I found it rather enjoyable looking at the way the illustrations made two things at one time.

This book could be used to help children learn the alphabet. It also could be used to gowith a trip to the zoo or with a segment about animals. ( )

Title: “Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet”
Author: David McLimans
Summery: “Gone Wild” is a great story that takes its reader trough the alphabet introducing an endangered animal with each letter. It specifies how endangered each animal is, whether it critically endangered, or vulnerable. At the end of the book it goes in depth, giving more insight on each animal.
Personal Response: This book is perfect for any animal lover. I could not tear it away from my husband. This book is a fun way to reinforce the alphabet while introducing the term “endangered” into the classroom.
Extensions:
1) The class can create a habitat that they see as a place that will keep these animals alive.
2) The classroom could also create a book similar to this one using other endangered animals. Each child could be given an animal to research for the book. ( )

This book provides the reader with a lot of important information about endangered animals in a fun and engaging way. This makes it so this book is a good example of an informational book. The illustrations in this book are very creative. They artists takes the letters and transforms them to resemble the particular animal. ( )

This elegant presentation incorporates striking black and red illustrations of endangered animals with the letters of the alphabet. Each page offers the upper and lower case letter along with brief facts about the featured animal.

Horn Book (The Horn Book Guide, Spring 2007)
Large black alphabet letters extend into symbolic shapes representing endangered or vulnerable species: E is drawn out into earwig pincers; I has a long, curving ibis beak. Some of the stencil-designed animals are unfamiliar (quoll, uakari); others might go unrecognized if not for the small red box containing the animal silhouette and classification details. Animal facts are appended. Reading list, websites. Category: Nonfiction-Social Sciences. 2006, Walker, 32pp, 16.95, 17.85. Ages 5 to 9. Rating: 4: Recommended, with minor flaws.

Clever illustrations introduces children (and adults!) to a variety of endangered animals. Each page contains a stylized black-and-white illustration of the animal in the form of a letter along with a separate stylized red illustration of the animal. ( )

Gone Wild will draw into its ambit not just those needful of an appealing abcdarium, but also aficionados of fine black-and-white design and people everywhere and anywhere who mourn the imminent demise of too much of this world's wildlife.

As McLimans notes in his introduction to this clever, striking book, more than 5,000 animals are facing extinction today. The 26 of those endangered creatures chosen for inclusion in this book were chosen, he writes, because they presented "visual opportunities": Each letter is a type of pictogram, in which both the letter that begins the animal's name and the animal itself meld to form an image.

Behold then, the intertwining of the Madagascar Tree Boa and the letter "B". The lower half of the upper-case "B" is a serpent's body, which appears bent on constricting something. An upper case "T" has a tail and ears, signifiers of the Andean Tapir. A vulpine "W" - half of the letter exhibits the salient features of a wolf - belongs to the Ethiopian Wolf.

Each of the 26 pages contains a box of information stating the subject's class, habitat, range, threats and endangered status, as well as a visual profile of the animal in question. Back matter includes expanded information about each creature as well as websites of organizations that help endangered animals.SUSAN PERREN, The Globe and Mail (Canada),December 2, 2006 Saturday

Feast your eyes on these amazing creatures before they disappear. This stampede of wild animals, from Chinese Alligator to Grevy's Zebra, are so rare, they're all endangered. David McLiman's bold and playful illustrations transform each letter into a work of art, graphically rendered with animal characteristics. Scales, horns, even insect wings transform the alphabet into animated life. Once you take this eye-opening safari, you'll never look at letters or animals with the same way again. A striking work of art and a zoological adventure, "Gone Wild" is sure to be loved by children and adults alike. ( )