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Mosquitoes

Young readers in the primary grades will enjoy seeing 12″ X 9″ color photos of enlarged mosquitoes -yikes . Two or three sentences of  large font text on the left are opposite the photo on the right side of each page spread. The book is divided into three sections: Mosquitoes, Food, and Mosquitoes Help the Earth. There is a photo with the three main body parts outlined and labeled. I found it interesting on pages 16-19, “All mosquitoes eat nectar and plant juices. Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood. They bite humans and animals.” These last two sentences are opposite a photo of a frog with 7 mosquitoes sitting on it above the water line. This is followed by More Facts, Glossary, Index, and Abdo Kids Code. It is interesting to find that the on-line Abdo Kids Code portion contains 4 of the 9 photos from the book, and the text condensed down from 17 sentences to 7. There are 3 printable activities [one of which is mistakenly an ‘ant’ word search- instead of the ‘craft’ promised], a 3 minute video showing the complete life cycle of a mosquito,  and 3 “Learn More” – the first one has a broken link and another is a somewhat cartoonish though factual video about mosquitoes.