The Horn Book Guide

SCIENCE

Davies, Nicola

Talk, Talk, Squawk!: A Human's Guide to Animal Communication

64 pp. | Candlewick | November, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-5088-9 $14.99

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Neal Layton. Davies presents the ways in which animals communicate through the use of color and pattern recognition, smells, sounds, and chemical exchanges; she also discusses how humans are researching all this. Her friendly tone makes the complex ideas remarkably clear and understandable, and Layton’s cartoon illustrations, complete with humorous communications from the anthropomorphized creatures, neatly underscore the important scientific messages.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2012