Reviews for Apes and Monkeys

The average rating for Apes and Monkeys based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-22 00:00:00 Susan Eichner compares and contrasts the two groups. A solid mentor text for middle grade. A different topic on each two page spread. Three activities at the end - make a chain of paper monkeys, make a monkey mask and BRILLIANTLY make a termite tower from decorated cardboard tubes and then try to suck out candies with a straw just like monkeys would suck out termites for the towers. The termite tower activity alone is priceless.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-27 00:00:00 Vernon Baker First, let me say that this is NOT an alphabet book. An alphabet book is a book geared towards the preschool age group to teach them their letters during storytime. This book is pretty long for one storytime, it's very dense, it has some complicated information... and it's probably better suited for children closer to 8 than to 4. At that point, they already know their alphabet. No, this book is a book about dinosaurs that happens to go in alphabetical order. To that end, many - or all - of the dinosaurs will be unfamiliar to your child. Instead of running through the same short list of apatosaurus (brontosaurs to us old folk) and T-rexes and stegosauruses, these are all DIFFERENT dinosaurs. Your kid can actually learn something instead of repeating what he already knows. The paragraphs about the dinosaurs are very informative, talking about their bones and teeth and various hypotheses for their extinction, and I really like that many of the dinosaurs are colored with fanciful colors (I particularly liked the Fabrosaurus) instead of the usual browns and greys and army greens. (Questrosaurus is done in black and white, with an explanation that of course we have NO IDEA what colors the dinosaurs were).