My Presentation Today is about the Anaconda

This innovative chapter book flips the script on traditional animal encyclopedias, presenting fascinating facts through the 'oral presentations' of animals themselves. Each chapter features a different animal speaker, like an earthworm discussing anacondas or a zebra explaining black-and-white animals, offering a fresh and often humorous perspective. It's an engaging way for children aged 4-11 to learn about biology, ecology, and animal behavior, encouraging curiosity and critical thinking about different viewpoints. The playful tone and charming illustrations by Annemarie van Haeringen make complex information accessible and highly entertaining, perfect for reluctant readers or as a read-aloud.

"Hello, I'm the earthworm, and today I'm giving my talk about the anaconda." Who needs another book by humans? All they do is make us animals super boring. They only look at things through their own eyes. Every, single, time. Human after human. Kid after kid. Class after class. YAWN! This is a book of oral presentations given by us animals, for us animals, and about us animals. The cleaner fish will talk about his friend the shark and his sharp teeth. The zebra will get to tell you about all the black-and-white animals in the world. The mole knows everything there is to know about the daddy longlegs. The southern cassowa—yes, fox? What is it? Yes, you'll get to talk about geese. Huh? Yes, you'll get to talk about how delicious they are. Anyway, we're giving you twenty presentations from another twenty of us, but there's a lot more crammed in. And you know what, we did talk, and there's at least one human who's OK by us—Annemarie van Haeringen. She drew some portraits of us for this book and we gotta say, the likenesses are pretty good. Check it all out!