Reviews

Beware the Burmese Pythons: And Other Invasive Animal Species by Phil Nicholls, Etta Kaner

angiew23's review

5.0

This graphic novel tells about a variety of invasive species and the impact that they have on the habitats they have invaded. The story explores jobs like conservationists and environmentalists and what scientists need to research and do to prevent problems occurring from these invasive species. While the book looks like a graphic novel, and thus will be very appealing to young readers, it also has non-fiction text features like a page with labels, text boxes, diagrams and ends with resources and glossary. I love that it has the features of a text you can use for research while being a high interest graphic novel. The speech bubbles contain a fairly well spaced font, and usually with only 1 or 2 per box, so it is fairly easy to read and the fact pages have a similarly sized, clear phot as well as fun “comic style” fonts for headings which are still quite easy to read. I love this book and would highly recommend it! As a grade 3 teacher, I would recommend this book to parents and teachers of children in the 6-12 age range. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read and review this book!

librarypatronus's review

5.0

Thanks to Netgalley and Kids Can Press for the ARC of this!

Very informative, I was glad to see housecats included in the invasive species highlighted. My kids really liked the comic pages, and I liked that it seemed like it was epistolary- there were “news reports”, comics, and other formats that kept it interesting and engaging. The art style was fantastic.

fernandie's review

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through Edelweiss.