Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet (Caldecott Honor Book)

Not just your ordinary alphabet book. This book is very informative, different, unique, and has a lot to offer. Each letter/character is uniquely drawn plain in simple with black and white but it encompasses the animal. Each letter represents an animal, also provided is the class, habitat, range,

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threats, and status of each animal. Interesting aspect about this alphabet book is that all the animals are endangered. I enjoy this book due to the uncommon animals represented by the alphabet and the information provided. Located in the back of the book there is a section with a short description of each animal. This book is tended for older children but any child learning their alphabet can benefit from this book.
Ages 6 and up.

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Gone Wild is a very creative alphabete book. It goes through every letter and names an animal that matches the letter. Along with showing the animal it gives you 6 different categories of information. This would be useful to older children as it explains the class, phylum, etc.
This book to me is

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one of the best alphabete books I have ever seen. One thing that I wanted to show and read to my 6 month old are books like this one, where you have all the information right on the page and can teach them early. I love the idea of black and white because when I was little there were not books like that and my mom said I ever paid attention to what was being read instead I could list all the colors onthe page.
I think for a younger class this book would be a great tool with the animal biology unit, they could draw their own animals for each letter and guess what the animals are on the page (since they are the shape of the letters). For an older classroom I would use this with the biology unit and have them name all the extra stuff or do a research paper over one animal.

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Probably one of the best ABC's book I have seen in a long time. This book uses black and white pictures where the letters form the shape of an animal. It could be used for a variety of age groups as it continues to give information on the animals as you come across them in the book. Great book to

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be used with Biology students and would allow students to complete many extension projects that could be associated with it.

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This is a great alphabet book that also teaches about endangered animals. The illustrations are black and white letters in the shapes of animals. I can see this book being very useful at many age levels. It could be fun at a kinder to first grade level to talk about the letters and what animal they

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are shaped like. It could be used at the upper elementary level to talk about what is an endangered animal. I can see it used at a middle school level to talk about different classifications of animals like the class, phylum, etc.

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An ABC book done in black and white. Each letter is made to look like a different endangered animal. More back ground information is also given about each animal. Beautiful, creative renderings of each letter.

The introduction discusses our plants and animal life. It also explains the different levels of endangered statuses. Each letter is a drawing incorporating the shape of an endangered animal. There is also a legend on each page giving brief facts such as its habitat and level of endangered status.

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At the end is further information about each animal. The illustrations are ink drawings that very clearly and simply showcase the animal being portrayed.

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There are more that 5,000 animals that face extinction today. This book takes you through the alphabet, highlighting a variety of animals that are either critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable.

I thought that this book was really interesting how it incorporated the alphabet and interesting animal facts about endangered animals. The illustrations were done in basic colors and the detail was wonderful.

Gone Wild, by David McLimans is a picture book that uses animals to explore the alphabet. The black and white contrasting pictures are a brilliant way to move through the alphabet and on each animal a list of scientific facts is presented.

I do not believe that this book would be a good choice to

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read aloud to young listeners. There is no story to follow and I believe that they would get bored quickly.

This would be a great resource book for a science project on animals. There are several facts on each page about the animal featured. This book would also be good to follow along with learning the alphabet. There are great pictures to capture their attention and fun facts to listen to.

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A very informational alphabet book about endangered animals. The letters of the alphabet are cleverly crafted to resemble a part of the animal it is referring to. Each page has a box that gives a brief description of the animal's class, habitat, range, threats, and status. The last pages of the

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book give further information about each animal in sentence structure.

My first reaction when I opened the book and flipped through the pages was one of astonishment. The book was nothing I thought it was going to be like. Honestly I was a little disappointed. Most of the alphabet books I have read have big, colorful pictures, however, the author only uses the colors red, white, and black in his illustrations. After reading the book I was rewarded with an abundance of insightful and interesting information.

This would be a good book to read while studying a lesson about endangered animals. A teacher could get a map and the class could put pins in all the places that the animals are from. This could help the students visualize the wide range of the endangered animals. Students could also pick a letter of the alphabet, research a threatened animal that starts with that letter, and make their own illustration with pertinent information like the story.

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Gone Wild Features the alphabet, with each letter being the first in an animal species name. Each page contains and artistic and somewhat tribal looking impression of an animal in bold black on stark white. Some facts about each species are listed for inquisitive readers, to include habitat,

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characteristics, and common name.
I like this book because it is a fun way to provide children with information. I think that younger children who are getting stronger in their letter recognition skills would think that it is great fun to identify animals twisted into the shapes of letters that they are learning. I do not think that this would be a good book for children that have no background in letter formation and recognition as the pictures are too complicated.
Teachers and parents could use this book as a research tool, peaking a child’s interest and prompting them to “know more”. I would group this book with internet searches and other books that feature the same animal that the child has chosen, guiding them into a writing exercise or story telling narration as the age/ability allows. Younger children may think of different objects to form letters with, noodles, crayons, beads, yarn, and practice their letter formation skills in a more tactile manner.

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Gone Wild

Gone Wild Features the alphabet, with each letter being the first in an animal species name. Each page contains and artistic and somewhat tribal looking impression of an animal in bold black on stark white. Some facts about each species are listed for inquisitive readers, to include

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habitat, characteristics, and common name.
I like this book because it is a fun way to provide children with information. I think that younger children who are getting stronger in their letter recognition skills would think that it is great fun to identify animals twisted into the shapes of letters that they are learning. I do not think that this would be a good book for children that have no background in letter formation and recognition as the pictures are too complicated.
Teachers and parents could use this book as a research tool, peaking a child’s interest and prompting them to “know more”. I would group this book with internet searches and other books that feature the same animal that the child has chosen, guiding them into a writing exercise or story telling narration as the age/ability allows. Younger children may think of different objects to form letters with, noodles, crayons, beads, yarn, and practice their letter formation skills in a more tactile manner.

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McLimans transforms the letters of the alphabet with the wings, scales, horns, ears, and beaks of 26 endangered animals from around the world. The bold, catchy style of this book will capture the imagination of all ages of readers, while the simple facts given about each animal (it's class,

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habitat, range, threats, and status) encourage older readers who seek more information.

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Grade 3 Up–Although organized as a conventional alphabet book, the letters here are far from ordinary. McLimans has created a black-and-white iconic representation of 26 endangered animals, and his art is striking. For example, the newt's eyes protrude slightly from the sides of N, while its

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tongue emerges from the lower point. An accompanying box on each page includes a small, stylized red-and-white image of the animal plus information about its class, habitat, range, and threats to its survival. Back matter includes a paragraph about each creature along with a list of Web sites for organizations that help endangered animals and books for further reading. This title will serve more as a tool to raise awareness and a place to begin searching for information rather than as a source of facts. However, the arresting graphics and clean design will hold viewers' attention and create interest in the topic. The book could also serve as a starting point for art and design projects for students well above elementary school age

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Gone Wild is a book with creative pictures. They are single letters that have the features of an animal incorporated into them. The book list twenty-six different endangered species. It lists the class, habitat, range, threats, and status of the animal. Although throughout the whole book it only

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list these specific items about the animal at the end of the book it gives a brief drscription of each animal. There is even sites listed at the end of the book to find out more about what organizations are helping out.

This book gave me a lot of knowledge on endangered species. I thought the pictures where very creative. I like how this book is an alphabet book but also has a lot of useful information in it. This book makes me want to join an organization and help out the endangered species.

Since this book is an alphabet book I can have the students make an alphabet book of their own. I also can have them look up an endanged species that is not listed in the book and write a small summery about the animal that they picked.

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This is a beautiful and amazing book. I was totally blown away by it. I think that it is fantastic. This is no ordinary alphabet book, it is also about endangered animals. But, the coolest thing about this book is that for every animal, it lists the class, habitat, where the animal lives, things

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that threaten the animal, and the status of the animal. This would be a great teaching tool for any classroom studying animals, but more specifically endangered animals. I think this is one of the coolest children books I have read! It was awesome!

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Originally I was disappointed because I thought that this book would be geared towards younger kids, as most alphabet books are. This book is definitely not geared towards younger kids however. I was very interested to read about all the different endangered species, and enjoyed the simple

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information provided about each one. In the back of the book there are further resources which I found to be very thoughtful. This would be great for a lesson about endangered animals, or even creative lettering.

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Although this is an ABC book, it is not the typical ABC book that you are expecting to read to a young child. It is a beautifully crafted book where each letter is not just a regular letter in the alphabet, but a letter that has been turned into the animal that the letter starts with. All of the

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animals represented in this book are animals that are on the endangered species list. This is a great book to use with older children who understand what an endangered species is and the importance of learning about them to protect and save them. This book does a wonderful job of making the letter really stand out on the page because the illustrations are all done in black and white ink and in the corner or each page is a tiny box that tells you the specific details of the species that is endangered.

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Fantastic picture book for readers of all ages, this animal alphabet book will dazzle the young ones with fantastic animals twisted into letters and the older, more sophisticated readers will find fascinating the crucial data on each endangered species -- class, habitat, range, threats, and status.

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Terrific black, white and startling red design-work of a master, the playful presentation of starting facts is quite memorable.

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Although organized as a conventional alphabet book, the letters here are far from ordinary. McLimans has created a black-and-white iconic representation of 26 endangered animals, and his art is striking. For example, the newt's eyes protrude slightly from the sides of N, while its tongue emerges

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from the lower point. An accompanying box on each page includes a small, stylized red-and-white image of the animal plus information about its class, habitat, range, and threats to its survival.

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Although this is an ABC book, it is not the typical ABC book that you are expecting to read to a young child. It is a beautifully crafted book where each letter is not just a regular letter in the alphabet, but a letter that has been turned into the animal that the letter starts with. All of the

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animals represented in this book are animals that are on the endangered species list. This is a great book to use with older children who understand what an endangered species is and the importance of learning about them to protect and save them. This book does a wonderful job of making the letter really stand out on the page because the illustrations are all done in black and white ink and in the corner or each page is a tiny box that tells you the specific details of the species that is endangered.

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This book names one animal per letter of the alphabet that is endangered and gives a few facts about each animal.

This book educated me on animals that I had never heard of before like a spotted-tail Quoll. I enjoy the facts that it gives for each animal also.

This is great for science lessons and

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learning or practicing the alphabet.

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A simple yet very powerful alphabet book. Each letter is associated with an endangered species, and gives basic information about it. At the back of the book there are more detailed descriptions of each animal.

Not your traditional alphabet picture book. Each letter is depicted as an endangered animal who's name begins with that letter in black and white. This is a very factual alphabet, with information about each animal's class, habitat, range, and a list of some of the threats to its survival. There is

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also a back section with more detailed information about each animal's situation.

Although it's an alphabet book, it's less a book for teaching letters than for raising children's awareness of threatened animals. Thus, it's more a book for more advanced readers, maybe about third or fourth grade and up, upper elementary essentially.

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