Scary Snakes

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: June 30, 2015

Review

If this book, a Scholastic Level 2 Reader in the Icky Sticky series, fell into your hands, you could put it in your library for those readers interested in all things snake, deadly animal, gross, and creepy. This slim Early Reader has a lot of facts, but the layout is almost cartoonish with thought bubbles coming from most of the snakes, jokes, and places for stickers on each page. A book with stickers is a tough thing to add to a library because if a reader decides to use them to cover information, the book may have to be discarded. The fact that the pictures are photographs is a plus, and the photographs are gorgeous. I would purchase this for one child with an interest in snakes, but not for a library collection.

Overall Book Score: fair