Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
River Animals
Francine Galko · 2002
66/100
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A perfectly competent curriculum-support nonfiction reader that does exactly what the Heinemann/Raintree series promises — age-appropriate vocabulary, photographs, and a tidy habitat framework — but brings nothing distinctive to the table. Good for a classroom library shelf; not a book a child will ask for twice. Ecological data from 2002 may also be out of date.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance62
craft60
originality50
accuracy65
hype78
age-fit80
human-eye58
Penny’s verdict66
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