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Sleep
and Rest in Animals
Author: Corine Lacrampe
Publisher: Firefly Books
Product: Book (112 pages)
Ages: 14 and up
Cost: $24.95 |
Cockroaches catch up on sleep if
they’re deprived of their normal 14 hour resting time. They
sleep longer the next day. Yes, in sleep labs around the world, scientists
are busy dissecting the meaning of sleep and rest in the animal kingdom.
At some point during a life cycle, even for insects, there’s
some sleep or rest going on.
In between the big, gorgeous photos, author
Corine Lacrampe gives rousing information in four chapters on insects,
reptiles, birds, and mammals. One thing we failed to find an answer
for, do headless cockroaches sleep? |
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Reviewer: Jordan Ward
Age: 11
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| When I first picked up this book,
I was excited about the fantastic photography and curious about
how animals dream and sleep. The photographs in this book are awesome!
The photographs are really well done and they look like someone
who is a nature specialist took them. One of the big problems with
this book is that the examples and the pictures that go with them
are usually on different pages.
My favourite part of the book is the chapter
on birds. I think it’s really interesting that birds dream
about singing in their sleep! Did you know that albatrosses sleep
while flying? The facts in the book are really interesting, but
a lot of the words are hard to read and pronounce. Even my mum found
some of the words difficult to say.
I thought that the author could have told a whole lot more about
animals. Instead it was 60 percent animals, 40 percent about how
humans don’t know much about how animals sleep—and that’s
just crazy.
Overall, I’d give the book 10 out
of 10 for the pictures and 6 out of 10 for the information. I think
this book would be good for more experienced readers or kids who
like to look at animal pictures.
(Originally published in the Sept/Oct
2003 issue of YES Mag.) |
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