In this latest installment of the Cat in the Hat's Learning Library, the Cat introduces beginning readers to all kinds of sharks!
BONNIE WORTH is the author of countless books for young readers,
among them the Cat in the Hat Learning Library books If I Ran the
Rain Forest, Great Day for Pup!, Oh Say Can You Seed? (winner of
the 2003 Ohio Farm Bureau Award), There's No Place Like Space!,
Wish for a Fish, Oh Say Can You Say Di-No-Saur?,Would You Rather Be
a Pollywog?, Ice Is Nice!, and Safari, So Good!
Among the many books illustrated by ARISTIDES RUIZ are all the Cat
in the Hat Learning Library Books.
JOE MATHIEU has illustrated countless children's books.
Gr 2-4-Twisted sentence structure, tongue twisters, forced rhyme scheme, and lack of a consistent cadence make this offering a difficult read-aloud. "See this wonderful boat bobbing here on the water?/It's my Super-Stupendous Shipshape Shark Spotter" is one of the better-scanning lines, but still is a clunky read. Written at an almost fourth-grade reading level and illustrated in a cartoon style, the book's intended audience is unclear. Older students would be better served by reading a nonfiction text about sharks, many of which are listed in the back matter, including David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes's Face to Face With Sharks (National Geographic, 2009). Readers should skip right to these additional resources. Buy only where the TV show is popular.-Kelly Roth, Bartow County Public Library, Cartersville, GA (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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