Reviewed by Hilary Hawkes for Readers' Favorite

Opposites in the Wild: Finding Opposites in Animals and Nature by Mara Mae is a colorful rhyming book that helps young children think and learn about contrasts and opposites. It begins with a large elephant standing next to a tiny mouse. Over the following pages, other amazing animals are depicted: large with small, spiky with smooth, hungry with full, calm with noisy, etc. Other nature opposites are also explored and include the wide river and narrow stream, the hot desert and cold Arctic.

In Mara Mae’s Opposites in the Wild, children will love the animal characters and attractive, bright colors – the perfect way to engage young readers/learners with the book’s content. Although the rhyming stanzas varied in rhythm and length on some pages, I found the rhyming text easy to read out loud, as a book like this almost certainly would be shared aloud with a child or group of children. Getting young children to understand the concepts of size and opposites is greatly helped by fun and entertaining books like this. I feel parents and teachers will be able to use Opposites in the Wild to help with this aspect of learning. I love the inclusion of interactive activities at the end of the book. This is a good way for young children to think and consolidate learning, and begin to put it into practice. A fun and educational book to share with a child or group of youngsters, and perfect for any young child’s home or school library.