Sea Horses Book

Summary: This book has adequate information about penguins. This book includes any information from how penguins reproduce, what they eat, how they interact with other penguins, and even what eats penguins. The book also introduces the different types of species of penguins. The book shows pictures and talks about six different species. It also explains throughout the book that penguins are birds, because they have feathers.
Evaluation: I rated this book at a 3. Although this book has a lot of information about penguins, the author fails to credit the sources that he pulled this information from. The book does have a lot of very interesting graphics and very easy-to-read sentences for children. Also, the large text instantly attracts children to it.
Teaching Idea: I think this book would be a very fun and interesting book for students to learn about classifying animals. There are many different concepts in classifying this animal because it challenges students to think about whether a penguin is a mammal, while also thinking about the fact that a penguin is also considered a bird and a fish, because they spend time on both land and water.