If you’re looking for a last-minute gift idea for nonfiction-loving kids in your life, an animal book is almost always a hit–today’s review looks at Junior High Nonfiction nominee Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel by Nancy Castaldo. Round 1 judge Rebecca G. Aguilar, a writer and avid reader who blogs at Mostly About Nonfiction, reviewed this title recently:
Nancy Castaldo, author of The Story of Seeds (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), explores the findings of cognition studies on dolphins, elephants, crows, owls and monkeys in her most recent book Beastly Brains.
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