Christina Leaf

I personally enjoy this book and could see myself using this in the classroom for lessons about insects. This book is very educational and there are so many potential lessons that this book can be incorporated in.

A good introduction to the animal, with one or two sentences on each page; large, clear photographs; and accompanying lists with a small photograph of each item (e.g. "on the menu," "animals to avoid," etc.). A map shows the area of North America in which jackrabbits can be found.

Front/Back matter: table of contents, bolded vocabulary throughout appears in a glossary in the back matter, additional resources "at the library" and "on the web," index.

I really liked this book mainly because of that fact that it's different than the other ones i've read. This book was all about platypus' and the facts that are associated with them. Informational texts give students a more fun approach to learning facts. Informational texts include maps, fun fact boxes, and large titles. These text features make informational texts way more interesting. I read this book very quickly and feel as if I learned so much from this book. I learned that platypus' show more have small spurs on their hind legs that are actually full of venom. show less

This book is not a bad book but I was not super interested in all the materials discussed in the book. This book is very much a biography about the author Jeff Kinney but I was also expecting them to go into more depth about the diary of a wimpy kid series.
The book starts with his life before he became an author and where he is from. Then is talks about how Diary of a Wimpy Kid started off as a series on a website known as funbrain and it attracted enough audience that he made it into a show more physical published book. show less