Jame's Prunier

This book introduces the different types of monkeys and apes, their anatomy, habitat, what/how they eat and live. It is very informative and is a great book to introduce to your class when teaching about primates, or mammals. I especially love the transparent illustrations included on some of the pages. It makes the animals sort of come to life and it makes learning about the different primates fun and intriguing. I definitely learned a lot from this book.

I could see this book being very fascinating to children. It was amazing to see how many different types of monkeys there are. I also like how the author points out that humans are also primates like monkeys. I understand evolution isn’t touched on until middle and high school, and this book in a since introduces that concept.

My 3-yr-old son totally loves this. To me it seems like a pretty formal (but nicely illustrated) listing of different kinds of trains — from historic to modern with an emphasis on speed trains. But to my son there are TRAINS and TUNNELS, and he loves the semi-transparent pages.

The relation this book has to humans is what I appreciated the most. I think it would be very useful to teach this book to children because it's simplified enough to where they would understand. I think the children would love the pictures because I thought they were very cute.