Susannah Buhrman-Deever

Lush illustrations, fun side facts, proper tone for the age level.

This book is good for a primary age group. It combines the whimsical pictures you'd expect from a fiction picture book with some very valuable information on the pivotal role otters play in their ecosystem. It also carries an environmental lesson on the way human impact can completely ruin the balance of an environment. I would definitely have this in my classroom, as it carries both the interest of kids that enjoy learning about animals while also offering a moral cause.

This is a great book to aid in teaching how different types of animals survive in the environments that they live in. This concept of food chains, predator vs prey, and survival mechanisms can be a little confusing to young minds, so using this as an aid and reading bits and pieces of this short book to the class or small groups could be beneficial in the learning process because it includes poems and pictures to describe the different predators and who their prey is.