Emergent readers will enjoy straight forward facts with strong visual support about opossums. Written in large font with two sentences per page opposite a color photo. If it weren’t for the cover photo and the one opposite, “It shows its 50 teeth to scare the predator away” on page 16, the young reader might have thoughts of keeping an opossum as a ‘cute’ backyard wildlife pet. The author does not mention the aspect of ‘playing possum’ but young readers won’t notice this omission.

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