Fly Guy Presents: Sharks (Scholastic Reader Series: Level 2)

by Tedd Arnold, Tedd Arnold (Illustrator)

Overview

Fly Guy is buzzzzing on over to the nonfiction genre!

Award-winning author/illustrator Tedd Arnold brings nonfiction to life with the help of his very popular main character, Fly Guy! This engaging nonfiction reader combines the kid-friendly humor of Fly Guy with the high-interest topic of sharks! Fly Guy and Buzz introduce young readers to sharks with straightforward fun facts, humorous asides, and full-bleed photographs throughout. *FOIL ON THE COVER!*

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545507714
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	04/30/2013
Series:	Scholastic Reader Series: Level 2
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	74,321
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Tedd Arnold is the bestselling author and illustrator of the Fly Guy (Zig Zag et Zazie) series, Green Wilma, Parts, and other popular picture books. He is also the illustrator of Detective Blue. He has received Theodor Seuss Geisel Honors for Hi! Fly Guy (Salut Zig Zag!) and I Spy Fly Guy! (Où es-tu Zig Zag?). Tedd lives with his wife, Carol, in Florida.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for FLY GUY PRESENTS: SHARKS"A first-rate sharkfest, unusually nutritious for all its brevity." -KIRKUS REVIEWSPraise for FLY GUY PRESENTS: SPACE"An eye-catching lesson on space that aspiring astronauts and astronomers will not want to miss." -BOOKLISTPraise for HI! FLY GUY"Readers drawn in by the flashy foil will stick around to applaud this unusually capable critter." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLYPraise for SUPER FLY GUY"A fly by delight." -BOOKLIST

From the Publisher

Buzz and his buzzy buddy open a spinoff series of nonfiction early readers with an aquarium visit. Buzz: "Like other fish, sharks breathe through gills." Fly Guy: "GILLZZ." Thus do the two pop-eyed cartoon tour guides squire readers past a plethora of cramped but carefully labeled color photos depicting dozens of kinds of sharks in watery settings, along with close-ups of skin, teeth and other anatomical features. In the bite-sized blocks of narrative text, challenging vocabulary words like "carnivores" and "luminescence" come with pronunciation guides and lucid in-context definitions. Despite all the flashes of dentifrice and references to prey and smelling blood in the water, there is no actual gore or chowing down on display. Sharks are "so cool!" proclaims Buzz at last, striding out of the gift shop. "I can't wait for our next field trip!" (That will be Fly Guy Presents: Space, scheduled for September 2013.) A first-rate sharkfest, unusually nutritious for all its brevity. (Informational easy reader. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews