10 True Tales Surviving Sharks and other Dangerous Creatures

Reviewed by: Jeri Fitzpatrick - GNGMS, Gray, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 8, 2015

Review

This is part of a 10 true tales series. This paperback book has 10 short stories with a table of contents. Each story is about how a child from 10 to high school age survives different animal attacks from around the world and different placed within the US including a moose attack in Maine. Each story gives some information on why the animal usually attacks: cold snowy winter, not much food animal is hungry, land/ habitat is taken from them, protecting their young, and it may just be their nature to hunt. The animals include great white shark, elephants, bear, snake, wolf, alligator, bull, monkeys, moose, and cougar. The book also includes some safety tips on how to survive an attack, a few laws to protect people and wild animals (it's against the law to feed wolves in Alaska, and moose in Maine), and it also includes some definitions that may be unknown to the reader. I think this could be a good oral quick read/ story time/ waiting for a late bus...kind of activity.

Overall Book Score: good