Wombats Are Pretty Weird (Not So Serious Guide)

by Abi Cushman (Author) Abi Cushman (Illustrator)

Wombats Are Pretty Weird (Not So Serious Guide)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Wombats might be pretty weird, but they're pretty awesome, too!

Wombats Are Pretty Weird is funny, kid-friendly, and informative, and features sidebars, comic panels, extensive backmatter, and a map. Acclaimed author-illustrator Abi Cushman's nonfiction debut contains everything anyone could ever possibly want to know about wombats!

Wombats are elusive, burrowing marsupials. Their teeth never stop growing, they have backward-facing pouches, and they're the only animal to have cube-shaped poop. And if you ask their snake friend, Joey, those aren't the only things that are weird about wombats!

Abi Cushman's Wombats Are Pretty Weird contains informative, expressive, and funny illustrations, and offers an entertaining blend of narration, sidebars, speech balloons, and dialogue between Joey the snake and the wombats he meets in the wild. A refreshing departure from traditional informational books, Wombats Are Pretty Weird is a child-friendly guide to understanding the weird and wonderful world of wombats.

Features extensive backmatter, including a glossary.

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Kirkus

An engaging mix of facts and fancy.

ALA/Booklist

[An] informative field guide that professes not to take itself too seriously . . . Adorable, cartoonish illustrations of all three kinds of wombat, a snake sidekick named Joey (just like a baby wombat), and speech-bubble dialogue lend a layer of humor and reinforce the concepts introduced by the text.

None

Entertaining and informative

Review quotes

Appended with basic scientific facts, such as the size and weight of all three species; a glossary; and suggestions for further inquiry— Horn Book Magazine

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780063234437
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication date
May 23, 2023
Series
Not So Serious Guide
BISAC categories
JNF051150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
JNF003140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Mammals
JNF028000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Humor | General
JNF038030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Australia & Oceania
Library of Congress categories
Wombats

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