Pterodactyl

Reviewed by: Margy Soule - Coffin Elementary School, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: February 14, 2018

Review

This early nonfiction has all the elements that primary teachers are now looking for - a table of contents, index, prepared questions, labeled diagram, two or three brief sentences per page, a brief listing of four additional resources including downloadable free resources from Lerner, and glossary. It has what young children want, a scary looking "real" dinosaur with photos downloaded from Shutterstock.com and iStock.com. There is no provided written information noting the background of the author or research done by Shutterstock. Also, no where does it say that the photos are just "best guesses" of what these flying reptiles looked like.

Overall Book Score: good