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Segal-Walters, Julie

This Is Not a Normal Animal Book

40 pp. | Simon/Wiseman | October, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4814-3922-0 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-4814-3923-7
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Brian Biggs. "If the cat laid an egg... / it would be a hen." Five animal classifications are similarly indirectly introduced, but when the author gets to fish, the illustrator refuses to draw a blobfish. The humorous back-and-forth between Segal-Walters and Biggs throughout this meta offering should entertain kids, though the inclusion of scientific information feels forced. The final page provides a general fact about each class.
Reviewer: Janet Dawson

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