Kathryn Knight (1)

Oooh, this looks so baaaaad! The art is over-rendered to the point of being ugly. Eeyore has so much tone and so many wrinkles that he starts to look nude instead of being a donkey that doesn't wear clothes. Weirdly uncomfortable!

And the story isn't great either. Once again Eeyore's tail is lost, this time up in a tree. A Super Sleuth is added every page to give a counting aspect as they try different things to get the tail down. The problem is that the author couldn't seem to decide between show more a story in rhyme or a story in prose, so she just throws couplets in every so often, and that just grates on me.

And then to really annoy me, the publisher reused the same ISBN (1403781761 / 9781403781765) on several different books including the very similarly titled but definitely distinct My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Count on Us! (a book where the Super Sleuths count insects, butterflies, flowers and honey pots). It was a hassle getting it sorted out on LibraryThing and Goodreads.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
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This was a fun little book to read with my kids. It is a short little book about the many animals that can be located and discovered in Africa. My children enjoyed listening to it as I read it to them for their 20 minutes of reading time. They learned a few new things and so did I. I think it is a good book for any child that has an interest in learning more about the animals within the world that they live.

From the Hercules beetle of South America to the hissing cockroach of Madagascar, children—and adults, too—will enjoy learning about some of the creepy, crawly, and of course, amazing insects found around the world! Written for children ages 6-9, this book represents one installment of a nature series that pairs reading and scientific curiosity. Each page boasts artfully captured photographic images of the insects in their native habitats, illustrating not only the finite details of the show more species but also the environment in which they can be found. The text is constructed with descriptive language that conveys sound, emotion, and useful analogies to pique children’s interest and enhance understanding. Despite relatively short sentence structure and preponderance of “sight words,” there are a number of content-specific vocabulary terms that are likely to pose challenges for inexperienced readers. As such, this visually and textually detailed “easy reader” provides a fantastic opportunity for children and adults to share in an educational experience by joining together to read. show less

Clearly well written it gives the little ones an idea of the 50 states that we have and gives them information in small doses that the child can really understand instead of sitting in a geography class with a textbook and being taught all this information in large doses.