Chomp! A Book About Sharks (level 3) (Scholastic Reader)

By Melvin A. Berger and Gilda Berger

Book Overview

A simple explanation of what sharks look like, how they hunt, what they eat, and how they are born This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590522981
• ISBN13: 9780590522984
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Cartwheel
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Scary for Mom, thrilling for kids

I have no idea what my kids enjoy about this book, but they do indeed like it. The illustrations are all photographs, and most of them are fearfully close-up and zoomed in on those jaggedy maws full of teeth. Shudder! But my KIDS love it. Our copy is fairly tattered from fascinated reading. The text is on the "easy" side of level 3 with VERY short sentences and a choppy, bullet-point style. Your first grader will conquer this book quite easily. There is a remarkable photo of the pointed scales that make up shark skin -- I had heard that shark skin could cut you, but this book shows why. Relax, Mom, there are no photos of bloody feeding frenzies, although there are a few photos of sharks hunting, and a description of the death of a seal. There aren't any photos of shark-attacked-humans or of people hunting sharks, and the text is completely devoid of the type of "sharks-are-our-friends" nonsense that you sometimes get. So BRAVO to this book for being a science book that kids love to read.

Chomp! Was a page turner!

We picked this book up on a whim, and happened to be the book my son chose for our reading time. Because he has severe learning disabilities he had enormous difficulty reading and will stop as soon as he can. I only require him to read one chapter a day for reading time, and he didn't want to stop! He read the whole book! I was amazed! The first chapter is a bit shocking to our sensibilities, but animals eating other animials is real life. If you want to just skip that chapter altogether you can, the book could just as well have started on chapter two. But again, it depicts real life and will be a really great beginning for some readers! But any book that can hold his desire to read for the whole book is a real winner. It was very high interest, while using language that was easy to read and understand. I checked his comprehension by asking questions about what he had just read at the end of one or two pages. He had all the fact, so it really made sense to him. If your kids like animals this was a great book filled with facts and pictures that were great. We think you'll love it!