Description
The illustrator Tina Bestard deserves awards for her amazingly appealing and informative illustrations of the seventy diverse animals, contrasted with their highlighted digestive systems. In these wonderfully drawn depictions, different animals from invertebrates to vertebrates are described, and the reader is shown how they obtain their life energy through the food they ingest and process through their digestive systems. Check out jellyfish, or a cockroach, or inspect your backyard chicken, perhaps you would like to examine something larger, like a horse, a blue whale, or even a hippopotamus. The animals are at your disposal along with tidbits of delicious information, such as what these creatures eat and who eats them, along with other tantalizing facts. Take sharks, for example, the great white shark is renowned as the apex predator and has been on this planet for about sixteen million years. Think how busy the ruminant cow is, eating about 150 pounds of fresh grass eight hours a day. Find out if dogs eat poo, or learn where the brown sewer rat originated from, lots of useful information to engage both the young and older reader. Animal lovers will adore the book, and children will be exposed to the myriad ways the body is designed for survival.
