The Horn Book Guide

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Balkan, Gabrielle

Book of Bones: 10 Record-Breaking Animals

48 pp. | Phaidon | September, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7148-7512-5 $19.95

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Sam Brewster. This handsome volume presents "record-breaking" facts about the framework that gives vertebrates their shape. On each spread, readers view a skeleton and ponder clues (given by the animal in the first person) to guess which animal has the largest, smallest, longest, heaviest, etc., bones; turn the page for the detailed answer accompanied by a graphically sharp full-body illustration with tactile raised embellishments. Reading list, websites. Glos.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo