Animals Work

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: February 25, 2015

Review

This book is about working animals. Each two page spread has minimal words to describe what certain animals do; horses carry, dogs herd, donkeys pull, etc. The most stunning part of this book, though, are the gorgeous illustrations that are simply works of art. Each two-page spread shows the animal in its environment from Egypt, to Norway, India, Egypt and Ireland, etc. At the end of the book is a world map which indicates where the author encountered these animals. This will be informative and fun for the youngsters to peruse. The illustrations depict the interaction between working animals and people and the last page shows that not only do animals accomplish many things for us but we do for our animals in return. This book will be appreciated by the youngest readers but older readers will, perhaps, appreciate the illustrations most of all.

Overall Book Score: very good