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PSZoo Animals series.
Each book in this series contains nine two-page chapters ("What Do Flamingos Look Like?" "How Do Ostriches Sleep?") made up of short, declarative sentences that answer the questions posed by each chapter's title. Because the information is disseminated as stray (if interesting) facts versus in paragraph format, the texts have a disjointed quality, but the close-up color photos should be enough to secure readers' attention. Glos., ind. [Review covers these Zoo Animals titles: Flamingo and Ostrich.]