This is a book my kids enjoy reading over and over again! They enjoy the short stories about the various animals, but their favorite part is the facts and photos of each animal. It's the perfect combination of entertaining and educational!

Wild Animals of the Savannah is the book to pick up if you want to learn more about animals of the Savannah.⁠
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Wild Animals of the Savannah is written by Marks Baeten and illustrated by Gertie Jaquet and is published in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The book has fictional stories about animals such as leopards, ostriches, elephants, hippos, giraffe, zebras and lions. After each story the book also provides fun facts about the animal in the story.⁠
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What caught my attention in this book are the colorful illustrations and the convincing expressions of the animals. The changing colors with every page made this book fun to read.⁠
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Thank you to @netgalley and @clavispublishing for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. ⁠
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Category: children’s picture book with multiple stories ⁠
Age range: 5+

This is an interesting educational book for children which shows different wild animals and their children who live in Africa. The illustrations are nice and there is a lot of written information that young readers will enjoy. I really liked reading this book and I learned some information about animals that I did not know about. It is a good book for a classroom.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book has the stories and content for elementary aged readers, but has the art and size and structure for younger readers, While the art and stories work, they don't fell like they work together. That said the messages are great.

I like that this book is in cooperation with the World Wildlife Fund and has different authors tell a fictional story about the different animals of the Savannah and then follow it up with facts about the main animal in each story. My one complaint though is that there is a story featuring a turtle and then the facts page is about a tortoise. As these are two separate species one being more aquatic and one being land based amongst other key differences this seems like a blaring error in a book designed to teach children about animals.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

The cover is colorful but gets the job done.

My kids and I LOVED this book. It's informative and fun to read. The illustrations were great as well!

I'll definitely be looking out for other work by this author.

My cubs loved this book! There are stories for all kinds of savannah creatures. After each story is a section with facts about the animal. Interspersed throughout are art and photography of the myriad beasties. This is a perfect book for classroom use, or as a gift for a nature-loving youngling!

This book is bound to peak the interest of young children. It starts of with a very short story about a particular animal followed by some brief facts. The fictional part is a great and easy way to capture a child’s attention, and will also absorb the real facts as well. The stories involve other animals and are very thoughtfully laid out. Parents and educators will enjoy reading this book too!

Loved looking through this with my son. He enjoyed learning about the animals and loved the illustrations. It was a little too long for him for one sitting though. He is 2.

Wild Animals of the Savannah is a book containing short stories about wild animals of the Savannah. I liked how it had the illustrated story on each animal and at the end of each story it had some facts about the animal in the story.
I read it to my 4 year old son over a period of nights, as it was too long to read in one sitting at his age, and he loved it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Clavis Publishing for my ARC.

Thanks for the opportunity to review this children’s book. This is an informative and educational book in two ways: it share facts about animals and tells moral or fable like stories to learn lessons. It is mixed with illustrated sections then a double page of “real life” photos of the animals, a “passport” (facts of the animals).

Pros: informative, educational, lots of info for the money or time if you buy this

Cons: I think the story text is too condensed and bulky. Just in my experience, kids get bored so quickly — those walls of text are just blegh looking. They would look better with some space or something. Being read aloud? No problem

Having several animal lovers for grandchildren, they will love learning about the wild animals of the Savannah. Each story reflects an baby animal and their parents. The stories are funny and informative. As I was reading the story of baby hippo question his appearance with his parents, I could hear both my granddaughters laugh at his antics. He worries that he has a big butt and no one will like him. That all changes when the big butt saves the day. They are endearing stories of the wild but it also ends with facts and actual pictures of the animals.

For kiddos that like to laugh and learn, I highly recommend.

A special thank you to Clavis Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

I loved this book. It is a chapter book for toddlers. I know it says picture book but it is very long for a bedtime story or even a story hour. It is just perfect for reading a few "animal chapters" before going to sleep. There is a story about each animal, then a few behavioral anecdotes and, last but not least, a biographic passport page including where the animal lives, height, weight, age, dietary and behavioral traits.

Thank you NetGalley and Clavis Publishing/Clavis for an ARC of this interesting, intelligent, educational, and beautifully illustrated book by Marja Baeten.

This is a great book. I mean it's all there in the title. A collection of stories of animals that live in the wild of the African Savannah ecosystem. Child friendly stories about animals and what problems they face existing in that world. Followed by short and sweet informative pieces filled with statistics and fun facts. Facts about Hippos, Leopards, Elephants and so much more. My children loved hearing about them all and will hopefully retain the information over several more reads. I recommend Wild Animals of the Savannah to everyone wanting to add more imformative yet stimulating reading to their children's book time.

This book combines both fictional stories about animals as well as pages dedicated to factual information about each of the animals. It also contains both illustrated pictures and photographs. We really enjoyed reading this and as a parent, I would be happy to read this more than once to my kids.

This was a really good book. I enjoyed the mix of fiction and non fiction.

Each animal is represented by a fictional story which anthropomorphizes the animals. The stories have different tones. Some are sweet. some are funny. One is even a retelling of a fable.

The non fiction elements were perfect bite-sized bits of information. Exactly how elementary age children absorb facts.

I will definitely be purchasing this book for my library.

This book is s selection of short stories about animals and contains some interesting facts too about each of them - some of which I didn't even know!
Lovely book with some colourful pics.

I would give this one a miss, unfortunately. It appears to be pleasant enough – we get factoids about the African animals we might meet on safari, but those cover two pages – the previous four for every species are a story with dense, loosely-formatted text, that really would not appeal to a youngster. A young cheetah gives his point of view of mild peril when he's left alone one day by his mother, an ostrich egg goes walkabout, a hippo learns not to be self-conscious – some have a feel of a fable about them, but they read quite bland, and as I say the layout of the chunks of text leaves a lot to be desired when pitched so young. One and a half stars, rounded up to two for the bonus non-fiction details.

Illustrated stories about savannah inhabitants followed by pictures and facts about them. The stories are short fables.