PreS-Gr 3 For fun browsing, these two titles provide glimpses of the largest insects and ocean animals. Two-page entries offer a brief description of each creature, a large full-color drawing, three smaller drawings that illustrate its activities, and a size-comparative inset figure. For example, a tarantula is drawn next to silhouettes of an adult and a child's hand. Arranged vertically down the side of the page, three drawings depict the tarantula resting in its underground burrow, hunting at night, and biting an insect victim with its fangs to inject its killing venom. The elephant seal is drawn next to silhouettes of an adult and child to show how it towers over both. The small drawings portray its spring mating colony, baby seals, and the seals swimming and hunting underwater. Each book contains a glossary of words bolded in the text, a list of 'Fascinating Facts, ' and a page of jokes. A three-page pull-out presents the comparative sizes of all the animals together in color on one side and in black-and-white outline drawings on the other. Frances E. Millhouser, Chantilly Regional Library, VA-