Red Eyes or Blue Feathers: A Book about Animals by Patricia M. Stockland

Stockland, P. (2005). Red eyes or blue feathers: A book about animal colors. Minneapolis, MN: Picture Window Books.

Summary:
Red Eyes and Blue feathers describes why certain animals look the way they do. This book tells readers that a seahorse is yellow-brown because the seaweed helps hide him and macaw is brightly colored so that it blends in with the brightly colored flowers of the rain forest. The book also describes red foxes, polar bears, sharks, and rhinoceros among other animals. It starts off by telling that color adaptation is the best way for an animal to survive from hungry predators.

Ages:
Kindergarten through 3rd grade

Credibility of Author:
Patricia M. Stockland had help writing this book from zoological society of San Diego and San Diego zoo.

National Standards that this book relates to:
This book meets the science standard of life science and nature of science.

Access Features:
The book has a page that is Do You Remember? Where you match the facts with the pictures, fun facts, glossary, related texts, websites, an index, and books in other series.

Description of the Illustrations:
The illustrations were created digitally.

Awards:
I couldn’t find any for this book.

Related Texts:
Ice Bear: In the Steps of the Polar Bear by Nicola Davies
I See a Kookaburra! : Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World by Robin Page

My response to the book:
This book does a great job describing the colors of animals and why they look the way they do. Each page also includes a fact about the animal that the kids will love!

How I would use this book in my class:
This book could be used to talk about habitats. The students could discuss how the animal’s colors help protect them in the habitats that they live in.

This book is 24 pages.