Bishop, N. (2010) Lizards. New York, NY: Scholastic.
Nic Bishop has written a photographic essay on lizards that would please teachers as well as students. From iguanas to Komodo dragons, there is a plethora of lizards showcased in this book.
First of all the pictures are outstanding. The tiniest of lizards are zoomed in on so that every detail can be seen. The images spread across a whole page or sometimes two. The colors are bright and monochromatic to really show how the lizards blend in with their environment. The text does not read like a boring science book. The vocabulary while specific to the domain is not heavy with terms that are too hard for students to decode or use context to decipher. On each page, there is one sentence highlighted with different colored font. Beginning readers could focus on that one sentence and still come away with new knowledge on the family of lizards.
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