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Becker, Helaine

Worms for Breakfast: How to Feed a Zoo

40 pp. | Owlkids | April, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-77147-105-3 $16.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Kathy Boake. Providing real recipes used to feed zoo animals, this book shows mid-elementary readers how zookeepers cater to a wide variety of diets and feeding behaviors. Other challenges, such as providing animals with physical and mental exercise and serving those with highly selective palates, are also highlighted. The informal delivery and bounty of zoological facts, culinary and otherwise, make up for the somewhat garish illustrations. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Russell Perry