Photographs completely engage readers with shots of creatures so unusual in design. Descriptive text creates a compelling case for camouflage and oddity as intentional and critical for survival. An intriguing topic for young readers.

This is a brilliant combination of fact and opinion, photographs and illustrations, literal and metaphor, serious and humorous. A significant amount of new information is made manageable through a comfortable pattern from page to page that shows and tells where in the world the animal lives, its physical descriptors and peculiarities, size, life span, and diet, its life cycle, a unique feature, an ...