Animal Adaptations: Unique Body Parts

Radka Piro is a bookworm, a passionate traveler, and a creative storyteller. After studying foreign languages, she set out to explore the distant corners of the world and discover her true purpose. Now, she is a successful writer and editor, based in the Czech Republic.

"The illustrations are fun and colorful but not too cartoon-ish. The animals are drawn with personality but are still identifiable as specific wild animals. Children will enjoy comparing adaptations across several animal types and learning about how an animal's body type affects the way they live, eat, and move. Some readers may want to look up each animal and see more of the habitat to which they are so well adapted. This is gently presented but sophisticated information about animal morphology and has a lot of words." Robin Shtulman, Athol Public Library, Athol

"Quite a decent little biology book - I normally don't like books like this that ignore the science of evolution, but even I have to admit it would be a bit too much. That said, this is all about evolution - and how five specific animals have adapted select body parts to end up more successful in life. So the compound eye, the prehensile tail, baleen feeding and more all get introduced through a window in a bonus flap in front of every left-hand page, with three factoids about the animal concerned. The right-hand page of what becomes a three-page spread clocks up four other animals as bonuses, and what they've got as a specialisation. Gentle, bright and a good little stepping stone, it will serve many an educator of the very young.! John Lloyd, reviewer