Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World by Guillaume Duprat - ADVISABLE

Eye Spy: Wild Ways Animals See the World by Guillaume Duprat. PICTURE BOOK/NON-FICTION. What on Earth Books, 2018. $22. 9781999802851

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3), EL - ADVISABLE

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

This large format book contains a few pages of informational text on eyesight in humans and animals and then each page has an illustration of a head of one animal with flaps over the eyes that can be physically lifted. Above each head is a short description of the animal’s vision needs. The bulk of the information is behind the flaps. Underneath the flaps the reader sees a picture of what the animal is able to see and then on the flaps there is a detailed description of what that particular animal can see, with a lot of emphasis on their capacities to see color. 

This book is a little deceptive because it appears to be a fun read aloud picture book with interactive flaps, but there is really a large amount of information text tucked behind the flaps. This could be a good way to get readers to pick up the book and challenge their reading. Some of the information felt redundant after a bit (different animals seeing similar colors, for example), but this is a good deep dive into animal vision.  

Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher