Publishers Weekly
10/31/2016Readers travel to 10 striking natural habitats—including the Congolese rainforest, Andes Mountains, redwood forests of North America, and the Philippines's Apo Reef—in this dynamic interactive book, which comes with a viewing lens featuring transparent red, green, and blue panels. Intricately detailed, overlapping images of the local flora and fauna are printed in magenta, yellow, and cyan, causing dramatic transformations in each spread, depending on which lens readers look through: the red lens makes diurnal animals appear, the blue lens reveals nocturnal and crepuscular animals, and the green lens illuminates plants and landscapes. Seeing each scene transform is a wonder (the blue lens, in particular, creates a real sense of night descending on each page), while introductory paragraphs and interstitial spreads offer a concise overview of the ecosystems and the creatures that inhabit them. Ages 8–12. (Nov.)