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A description of lemurs, their habitats, and their activities. An interesting book about a lesser known animal. I expect it to be popular. - Ellen Bailey, Azalea Gardens Middle School Norfolk Public Schools1/25/2011-- Norfolk Public Schools This non-fiction book is in the series, A Day in the Life: Rain Forest Animals which includes books on: Anaconda, Capybara, Howler Monkey, Jaguar, Lemur, Macaw, Orangutan, Piranha, Poison Dart Frog and Tarantula. Each book describes the animal and how it lives from day to night. Each page starts with a question like, What is a Lemur? The information is written on a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level. Very nice photographs of each animal with labels. Books also include a picture glossary, body map of animal that is labeled, index, and find out more with suggested books and websites. -Joanna Wasden, Bryant School Arlington Independent School District 11/18/2010-- Arlington Independent School District This series would be a great addition to any elementary library. Students will enjoy the beautiful photographs, easy text, and colorful maps. The layout of the books creates an easy to use resource for students who are just starting to read nonfiction. Colorful labeled photographs are used throughout. Boldfaced words are defined in the glossary along with a picture example of the word. A basic body map of all animals is included to help students identify the basic parts that were discussed. Bibliography. Glossary. Websites. Table of Contents. Index. - Paulette Moon, Atha Road Elementary School, Monroe, Georgia Library Media Connection March/April 2011-- Library Media Connection This would be a good book for research. It gives the basic information needed, including what it is, what it looks like, where they live, what they eat and other useful information. The photographs support the text. At the end of the book is the Glossary, Find Out More and an index. -Simpson, Hartman School Omaha Public Schools November 2011-- Omaha Public Schools With surprisingly little boilerplate considering how similar their narrative structures are, these introductions cover, except for the lemur and the orangutan, all South or Central American animals. They discuss coloration and other obvious physical features, geographic ranges, typical foods, predators or prey, reproduction (except, oddly, when it comes to the piranha), and daily cycles of activity. Each one ends with a labeled frontal or side body map and four or five mostly age-appropriate sources of further information. On each page, Ganeri presents information clearly and simply in large type, two-sentence comments placed below a bright, sharply reproduced color photograph of the animal in a natural setting. Some of the pictures-such as one view of a Goliath bird-eater tarantula actually eating a bird-though naturalistic, are more likely to stimulate than disturb young viewers. Though so basic that, for instance, the fact that there are some nocturnal lemur varieties goes unmentioned, these treatments are sufficiently specific to support assignment as well as pleasure reading. -John Peters, formerly at New York Public Library School Library Journal November 2010-- School Library Journal

This non-fiction book is in the series, ""A Day in the Life: Rain Forest Animals"" which includes books on: Anaconda, Capybara, Howler Monkey, Jaguar, Lemur, Macaw, Orangutan, Piranha, Poison Dart Frog and Tarantula. Each book describes the animal and how it lives from day to night. Each page starts with a question like, ""What is a Lemur?"" The information is written on a 2nd to 3rd grade reading level. Very nice photographs of each animal with labels. Books also include a picture glossary, body map of animal that is labeled, index, and ""find out more"" with suggested books and websites. -Joanna Wasden, Bryant School Arlington Independent School District 11/18/2010-- ""Arlington Independent School District"" With surprisingly little boilerplate considering how similar their narrative structures are, these introductions cover, except for the lemur and the orangutan, all South or Central American animals. They discuss coloration and other obvious physical features, geographic ranges, typical foods, predators or prey, reproduction (except, oddly, when it comes to the piranha), and daily cycles of activity. Each one ends with a labeled frontal or side ""body map"" and four or five mostly age-appropriate sources of further information. On each page, Ganeri presents information clearly and simply in large type, two-sentence comments placed below a bright, sharply reproduced color photograph of the animal in a natural setting. Some of the pictures-such as one view of a Goliath bird-eater tarantula actually eating a bird-though naturalistic, are more likely to stimulate than disturb young viewers. Though so basic that, for instance, the fact that there are some nocturnal lemur varieties goes unmentioned, these treatments are sufficiently specific to support assignment as well as pleasure reading. -John Peters, formerly at New York Public Library School Library Journal November 2010-- ""School Library Journal"" A description of lemurs, their habitats, and their activities. An interesting book about a lesser known animal. I expect it to be popular. - Ellen Bailey, Azalea Gardens Middle School Norfolk Public Schools1/25/2011-- ""Norfolk Public Schools"" This series would be a great addition to any elementary library. Students will enjoy the beautiful photographs, easy text, and colorful maps. The layout of the books creates an easy to use resource for students who are just starting to read nonfiction. Colorful labeled photographs are used throughout. Boldfaced words are defined in the glossary along with a picture example of the word. A basic body map of all animals is included to help students identify the basic parts that were discussed. Bibliography. Glossary. Websites. Table of Contents. Index. - Paulette Moon, Atha Road Elementary School, Monroe, Georgia Library Media Connection March/April 2011-- ""Library Media Connection"" This would be a good book for research. It gives the basic information needed, including what it is, what it looks like, where they live, what they eat and other useful information. The photographs support the text. At the end of the book is the Glossary, Find Out More and an index. -Simpson, Hartman School Omaha Public Schools November 2011-- ""Omaha Public Schools""

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Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of information books for children. Educated at Cambridge University, she has written more than 300 books, including the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series (Scholastic Children's Books) which won a 2009 Blue Peter Book Award. She writes widely on animals and the natural world. A recent title for Raintree, A Day in the Life of Rainforest Animals: Capybara, has been shortlisted for a Maryland Blue Crab Award 2012. Anita lives in the north of England with her husband, children and assorted pets.

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