Realistic digital illustrations rendered in saturated brown, blue, green, and yellow tones capture movement and use bold angles and dynamic lines. Each page features different animal families using human-made structures built specifically for them these structures allow the families to travel through habitats that have been altered by human transportation routes. PreS-Gr 2–The refrain “over, under, across, and through” carries readers through this picture book depicting unique animal crossings. Crossings: Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals. – Kirkus Reviews, STARRED, August 1, 2020 (bibliography) (Informational picture book. (This book was reviewed digitally with 11-by-22-inch double-page spreads viewed at 85.5% of actual size.)Īn unusual focus on one way humans and animals can coexist in our world. Readers can see the arching bridge that made that possible. The story in pictures is nicely rounded, beginning with a question about the fate of a mother panther and her cub facing a car on a highway and ending with mother and cub safe on a cliff high above it. One early spread focuses on construction, showing a gender- and racially diverse human team and several big machines-drawing in readers and listeners more interested in equipment than animals. There’s a two-level text, a simple sentence in a large font stating animal, crossing technology, and location, the smaller paragraphs providing further information about planning, specialized building, and uses.
Clean, crisp illustrations on double-page spreads show well, making this a good choice for a group read-aloud. Elephants, pangolins, red crabs, koalas, squirrel gliders, and blue penguins come from the Eastern Hemisphere elk, black bears, spotted salamanders, coyotes, panthers, and titi monkeys from the Western. A particularly nice touch is the map at the end, a shadowy map of continents with each animal appropriately placed and a few more facts about their situations.
Duffield provides 12 examples of animal passages built for regular use or seasonal migration. Overpasses, underpasses, even rope bridges are the focus of this intriguing informational picture book. All over the world, humans build crossings to allow wildlife to pass freely over, under, across, and through busy highways.
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