InstaGraphics: A Visual Guide to Your Universe by Dan Green
Published by Scholastic Nonfiction on March 26th 2019
ISBN: 1338215574
Pages: 128
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Dan Green’s InstaGraphics: A Visual Guide to Your Universe will delight fans of Scholastic’s Book of World Records or Nat Geo Kid’s Weird But True series.  Each page is visually dynamic with color photos, short text boxes and little known (and oddly curious) facts that reel in the reader.  Chapters cover a variety of topics on natural disasters, animals, the human body and technology. While this nonfiction will surely be in high demand due to its eye-catching page displays of infographics, charts and visuals, it does not offer enough knowledge on any given topic.  Hopefully this will prove a springboard for readers to then dive more deeply into other meatier nonfiction. There is definitely “gross-factor” appeal with this title and library displays could certainly play up the sections on longest finger nails (358.1 inches!), the dung beetle (and its love of manure) and the delicious (and potentially fatal) pufferfish.  A glossary is also included.

Reviewed by Suzanne Dix, Westbrook Middle School, Westbrook