Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Animals Around Us
Cathy Poth (adapt.), Pierre Averous · 1989
74/100
👍 Worth It
A Silver Burdett Look and Learn title that's actually a translation — Cathy Poth's English adaptation of a French Hachette science book for kids, with the clean documentary illustration style that era of French children's nonfiction did well. Forty-three pages on animals through the seasons, what they give us, how to understand them, with a real index. Library-shelf quality from 1989; as a cheap used find for an animal-obsessed kid, worth it.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety92
substance70
craft70
originality55
accuracy85
Penny’s verdict74
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