All Bout Sharks by: Jim Arnosky

I chose this book because I read an older non-fictional book about sharks this week as well and I wanted to see how they differed. All About Sharks was a great book full of lots of information and pictures. As important as the information was the way the information is portrayed is even more important. The layout of the book was great with all the pictures and statistics being intertwined. It gives the reader a chance to stray away from informational books that are just in long paragraph form and throw a lot of information at you at once. It gives the information species by species and gives pictures and side notes about each one. This type of informational book gives readers a great chance to learn about something and also have fun doing it. I am fascinated with sharks and wildlife and I think that stemmed from enjoying reading about them as a child and I hope that children would read this book and maybe pick up an interest. I feel like anything this book talked about, due to the way it was laid out, would give a children some kind of spark or interest in the subject. The author did a great job and I am interested if he has written any other books similar to this on different animals or subjects.