Stripes of All Types

by Susan Stockdale

In Stripes of All Types, author and illustrator Susan Stockdale brings to life a patterned parade of animals, showing young readers some of the many reasons stripes are found so often in nature. Bouncy, alliterative rhyme and simple phrases keep readers entertained, while a glossary at the back provides more in-depth information on each featured animal.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Nonfiction, Childrens, Storytime, Science, Poetry

32 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

Susan Stockdale, a former textile designer for the apparel industry, is the author-illustrator of critically acclaimed picture books that celebrate nature including Fabulous Fishes, Stripes of All Types and Fantastic Flowers. Her books have won a variety of awards such as the ALSC Notable Children’s Book, NCTE Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts, NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12, and the Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year.
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Stockdale’s vibrant illustrations and engaging prose win praise. The Washington Post wrote “If the paintings are the feast, Stockdale’s words are the dessert.” Her most recent book is Don't Eat the Cleaners!
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Reviews

[Madalyn Britton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stripes of All Types explores how animals around the world benefit from their stripes. Each striped creature is described in action in its natural habitat. Engaging rhymes and bright, bold images keep readers entertained while a glossary at the back provides information on each featured animal. This book you get a child really interested in animals to want to read this book. I gave this book a 4-star rating because of its really an interesting book. It rhymes and shows bright features in the book to bring the reader into the book and it also makes it fun to look at the pictures because they are very entertaining.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun and teachable book about stripes found on animals throughout the world. The text has a rhyming cadence, the animals are shown in their natural environments.

The illustrations are gorgeous and good size for group reading or pouring over by one. There is a glossary at the end with further explanation of why that particular animal has stripes and what continent it is found.

Nice endpapers.

[Hannah Mason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stripes of All Types explores how animals around the world benefit from their stripes. Each striped creature is described in action in its natural habitat. This book you get a child really interested in animals to want to read this book. I gave this book a 4-star rating because of its really an interesting book. It rhymes and shows bright features in the book to bring the reader into the book and it also makes it fun to look at the pictures because they are very entertaining.

[Francesca Justine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for children who love animals and want to see them in all habitats. The illustrations were great, and they were all framed with the words appearing at the bottom. Then at the end it related all the animals back to the children, making them feel apart of it.The back matter explained more about the animals that were in the book.

[Elle Turner · Rating 1 out of 5]

I would provide this book to a young age group and maybe incorporate it as a model for an art project during an animal study. I think students would have fun emphasizing the colors of different animals and maybe during a unit we have about patterns.

[Kaitlyn Kluesner · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a cute story about animals and where they live. I thought this would be a great book to have in a classroom, especially for animal lover students. The pictures were amazing to look at in this book.

[Henry Claxton · Rating 4 out of 5]

The rhyming and illustrations are great for the text. There are only 3 words per page and large illustrations, so students can hone into each individual word. There is plenty of challenging vocabulary, so even though the text is limited, it is still for emergent and fluent readers.

[Chelsea Adkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a fun and interesting book. It teaches about stripes on animals. The text is rhyming. The illustrations are very colorful and show the animals in their habitats. The glossary at the end is very helpful. Great book overall.

[Skylar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great rhyming book. It shows many different animals within the illustrations. You could incorporate this book into your English and science lesson. I love at the end of the book it lists all the different animals, why they have stripes, and where they live.

[Sydney Martindale · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good book but over all very boring. There was good backwater but for a book talking about the specifics of animal adaptations I wish it would have included pictures, and not cartoonish drawings.

[Danyielle Wagner · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed how this book represented various animals and was very informative.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good art!

[Susan Foster · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this bilingual board book we see an assortment of striped animals in their habitats. In the translation to Spanish, it loses the rhyming and the alliteration.

[Tracy Gold · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so beautiful! My daughter and I, both animal lovers, adore it!

[Ashley Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Little guy brought this in for us to read and it works so perfectly with our lesson! Letter Z and zoos!

[Tori Crumrine]

Illustrations look like they were made digitally.

The book explores where stripes ca be found in nature. Through wordplay, the author introduces a variety of striped animals and their habitats.

In the backmatter there is information about some animals that have stripes and a game for readers to play. The book contains very little text, which matches its intended age group of younger children.

[Victoria]

1. Twin Text - Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat by Anna Bradford - 2013.
2. Rationale - Stripes of All Types shows children different types of animals that have stripes and in one of its text features at the end of the book, discusses how the stripes help the animal fit in to its natural habitat. In Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat, Violet tries to help her older sister with a natural science project. Her sister tells Violet she doesn't want help, so Violet finds a ladybug in the garden and tries to create a habitat for it in a jar, feeding it cheese toast. The result is disastrous. Violet, along with her older sister, then create a project about the life-cycle of insects without removing any more of them from their habitats, and Violet learns how important it is for animals to be in their natural surroundings. I think this book could enhance or extend the learning of Stripes of All Types because students will have already had a discussion about animal habitats. Violet Mackerel can further discussion about what happens when humans take animals out of their habitats. This can also lead to discussion about how the zoo works to recreate animals' natural habitats through studying the animals and figuring out what is best for them.
3) Text Structure - I believe the text structure of Stripes of All Types is a combination of description an comparison/contrast. The book gives children information about each animal and where it lives, while the illustrations show the details of each animals' stripes. It also shows that all of these animals are alike - they all have stripes - but that their stripes serve different purposes.
4) Strategy Application - I think after reading both books, students could use the text feature in the back of Stripes of All Types where each animal and its habitat is described and choose one. Then, using a Venn Diagram, they could compare and contrast the animal's characteristics and habitat to Violet's ladybug.

[Patricia Kemp Blackmon · Rating 5 out of 5]

What animals have stripes? All types of animal and reptiles have stripes. The most familiar is probably the zebra and the skunk.

In this book you will learn of many animals with stripes like a poisonous frog, a garter snake, an american badger, wild and domestic cats and more. You will learn why they have stripes, though some have stripes that can't be explained as to why they have them, at all. As you read along in the book the author in a singsong rhyme tells of the places these creatures exist here on our planet Earth.

In the back of the book are more details about these creatures and where they live. Then there is an activity titled "STRIPES?" that ask, "Can you find the animals that belong to these stripes?".

I found this to be a fun and entertaining book, a wonderful way to learn about these bold, beautiful and uniquely marked animals.

I highly recommend this book to children ages 4-6, parents, grandparents, educators, librarians and caregivers.

I rated this book a 5 out of 5.

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book from Peachtree Publisher for review. I was in no way compensated for this review. This is my honest opinion.

GIVEAWAY ENDS 3/29/2013 HERE.

[Roberta Gibson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Are you looking for a children’s picture book to read for Poetry Month in April? Stripes of All Types by Susan Stockdale is a perfect choice. It combines rhyming text, incredible art and engaging science into one appealing package.

It is hard to describe the visual impact of this book with mere words. The acrylic illustrations are so clean and crisp. The patterns are amazing. It is sure to stimulate the reader to begin looking for stripes and other patterns everywhere.

Susan Stockdale highlights many unusual and intriguing animals with stripes, some with very subtle stripes like a turkey’s wing. In the back matter she discusses each animal in more detail, giving its name, where it lives and more about what its stripes might have to say. In the end is a matching game to reinforce learning, which asks the reader to match the square samples of different stripe patterns to the animal that wears them.

Stripes of All Types by Susan Stockdale is a bold look at animals of all stripes. The rhyming text is perfect for preschoolers and the youngest reader, especially those interested in animals. Pick it up for Poetry Month or before a trip to the zoo.

See Wrapped in Foil for an expanded review and activity suggestion.

[Jennifer Walizer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plot Summary:
Stripes of All Types by Susan Stockdale is a short and easy read. As you read each page, it gives a description of what is going on in the illustration. Each page displays a different type of living thing that has stripes on it. At the end of the book is a little bit more information on each one of these. It is basically providing a little fun fact for the animals selected. Also, there is a match game at the end of the story where the child is to match the stripes to the correct animal talked about in the story. This last part of the book could be used in the classroom as an activity for after reading.
Classroom Connections:
In a classroom, you could use this text in many ways. You could have the student chose one of these animals and do further research on them. Another idea for this text would be that the students could continue the idea of a theme with animals. You could provide them an idea of another quality many animals have and they have to come up with different animals that relate to this quality.

[Tasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Visit this gallery of animals who bear stripes of all sorts. There are animals that live in the ocean, ones that slither in grass, large cats, amphibians, insects, mammals and more. Drawn in crisp illustrations that show the stripe detail as well as pieces of their habitat. The book reads quickly, carried forward by the rhyming text. Children looking for more information on the intriguing animals can turn to the back of the book.

Thanks to the rollicking rhyme and the short sentences in the body of the book, even toddlers will enjoy this nonfiction book. Older children will enjoy talking about the different animals and reading more details.

Entertaining and informative, this is a very flexible title that a wide range of ages will find interesting. Appropriate for ages 3-6.

[Destiny Dawn Long · Rating 2 out of 5]

I won this book in a giveaway held by the publisher (along with 9 other titles).

I really enjoyed the concept of the book. I like books that encourage kids to explore the natural world and that expose them to a wide variety of flora and fauna. And, at the end of the book there is additional information about each animal featured, as well as an activity to identify which stripes belong to each animal.

But the rhyming text was predictable and not terribly exciting. And while there were some fabulous animal selections made, the illustrations didn't appeal to me at all. They were so flat. And a lot of the color choices confused me.

It's not a terrible book, but if I'd seen it in the library, I probably wouldn't have bothered borrowing it.

[Pamela · Rating 3 out of 5]

The main text of the book is comprised of very simple, one-line phrases about stripes we might find on various animals in different settings in the wild. The illustrations are presented with bold lines and colors, not exactly life-like, but very recognizable. At the end, there is a two-page spread of seek-and-find patterns from the illustrations that are great fun for little ones. Then there are three more pages containing additional information about each featured animal and how the stripes help it in the wild. This is where the interesting information is found about the importance of animal stripes. This book works with many types of readers, from beginning readers, to middle grades to bilingual students.

[Asho · Rating 4 out of 5]

We happened to meet the author of this book at a book festival, and my four-year-old was excited to meet an author and illustrator. It was his first book signing! (And the first for my one-year-old as well, although obviously she had no idea what was going on.) She had several of her books on display and he chose this one because he likes skunks.
We both liked it, and learned about some animals that were new to us. Did you know there is an animal called a bongo? My son liked pointing out the stripe pattern on each animal, and we enjoyed the facts about the animals at the back of the book, as well as the match-the-stripe page. The pictures are so bold and appealing that I bet my daughter will enjoy it, too.

[American Mensa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about all different kinds of stripes on animals. I liked it because the animals in the book are so pretty. I really liked the bird walking through the grass and the butterfly. My favorite part was the game where you get to match the stripes in the back of the book to the right animal. It was very fun. You can guess which animal it is and then check to see if you are right. It would have been better if it had more animals in it. I wanted it to be longer. Anyone who likes all different kinds of animals would like this book. This book would be good for children two years old to six years old.
Review by Aubrey L., age 4, Greater New York Mensa

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written in descriptive rhyming text guaranteed to hook young readers [sprawled in a lair...prowling the prairie], this easy-to-read book introduces the concept of stripes in nature. The author has created acrylic illustrations that highlight unexpected striped creatures such as a purple-striped jellyfish, an American badger, a baby Malayan tapir, and a phantasmal poison frog as well as the more commonly seen animals with stripes--a common zebra, a striped skunk, and a mackerel tabby. I like how the back matter includes thumbnail sketches identifying each picture and offerin additonal information including where the animals are found.

[Amy Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stockdale, S. (2013) Stripes of All Types. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers.

NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book winner 2014.

This rhyming book about striped animals features colorful, realistic drawings that show a wide variety of animals in their natural habitats. At the end there is picture glossary that identifies each animal, its habitat region, its animal family, and how it uses its stripes. At the end there is a stripe/animal matching game that many children would enjoy. This would be a wonderful science book to have in the classroom, to talk about animal adaptations. Grades PreK - 1.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stockdale, S. (2013) Stripes of All Types. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers.

NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book winner 2014.

This rhyming book about striped animals features colorful, realistic drawings that show a wide variety of animals in their natural habitats. At the end there is picture glossary that identifies each animal, its habitat region, its animal family, and how it uses its stripes. At the end there is a stripe/animal matching game that many children would enjoy. This would be a wonderful science book to have in the classroom, to talk about animal adaptations. Grades PreK - 1.

[Krista · Rating 3 out of 5]

An updated, bilingual version of the original 2013 English-only text. The text is displayed in an easy to follow style, with distinguishing colors, and bold, block font. However, whereas the original story is known for its whimsical rhyme scheme, this is lost in the accompanying Spanish translation. Therefore, while the translation is accurate, it loses some of its sophistication and elegance when read aloud in Spanish. Nonetheless, the title would work well in a Spanish storytime on animals, and would even be great in a middle or high school classroom as a read-aloud text for pronunciation practice. Recommended as optional purchase, depending on your collection type and needs.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you think of striped animals you probably think of a tiger or a zebra first. There is actually quite a variety of striped animals in the world. Author/illustrator Susan Stockdale does a fabulous job illustrating some for us. The charming little rhymes tell us what these striped creatures do in their natural habitat. Insects, birds, reptiles and mammals are well-represented on the colorful pages. Bonuses at the end of the book include short informative paragraphs about each animal as well as a guessing game of striped patterns - all of which are found in the book.