Reviews

Animal BFFs by Sophie Corrigan

lifeasmrsbaker's review

4.0

I struggle to categorize this book in children's non-fiction. It has very cute illustrations and facts, but it also has the animals playing games such as hide and go seek, which is not factual. Overall this book is adorable and my toddler loved it!

angiew23's review

5.0

This fun and entertaining non-fiction children's book tells about several pairs of animals who help each other and work together to adapt to their habitat. Displaying the term symbiosis powerfully with several concrete examples, this book shows that animals can work together to solve many problems, including hunting together, feeding off bothersome bugs and looking out for one another. With intriguing illustrations, funny thought and speech bubbles, and fact boxes to give more background information, I could see this book keeping young readers entertained and interested for hours. As a grade 3 teacher I could definitely see this book in my classroom and would love to use it as an introduction to lessons on symbiosis in Science. I would recommend this book to parents, teachers and librarians of students in the 5-12 age range. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this great book!

librarypatronus's review

5.0

Thanks to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing for the ARC of this!

My homeschooled kids loved this informative look at the relationships between different pairs of animals. The art style was really cute! We had fun reading about a few pairs a day, and my 5 year old asked if there was a second book yet as soon as we finished

ollie_again's review

funny informative medium-paced

3.5

I enjoyed this book and I think I would love it as a child. The illustrations are really nice and the topic is interesting. I didn't know most of the information in this book, and the symbiotic or parasitic relationships between different animal species are truly interesting.

What brings my rating of this book down a bit are the wanna-be-funny double-pages that are anthropomorphic portrayals of the animals having parties, taking pictures together etc. and precede the actual info about how the two animals interact with each other in real life. So there is always a not serious double-page and then a double-page talking about the reality. On one hand sure it's a book for kids, but on the other kids are not stupid and can enjoy an informative book without the actual information being watered down by jokes. The scientific facts are usually just one side of the double-page and on the other are the two animals talking to each other about the fact, in a nice and understandable manner. This could suffice as the kid-friendly part and not disrupt the flow of the book like the joke pages.

Despite that, it's still a nice book and I especially liked the glossary at the end, which explains more difficult words the child might not know. For a kid that likes animals and weird animal facts, especially if they like animal jokes and picture books with a little bit of humour, this might be a good book.

Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books for providing me with an ARC in exchange of my honest review.