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Little Red Newt, written by Louise Dyer Harris and Norman Dyer Harris, is a stand-alone science story book about the life cycles of newts, which are part of the salamander family. The child reader will also learn about other creatures in the forest, including earthworms and star-nosed moles. The authors tell the story of Little Red Newt mainly through the eyes of the school class who are observing him but also through independent narration about the creature by himself in the outdoors. Through the nice touch of having the animal live in a classroom terrarium, built by the class, the child reader is taught how to care for such a newt if they ever found one themselves. The narration of the newt’s life in the outdoors adds new facts about the creature’s lifecycle, which are effortlessly brought into the story, teaching about the newt’s many body and habitat changes, even going from water-breathing to air-breathing back to living in the water. The text is not explicitly Christian but the child reader will certainly come away with the impression that the Creator had fun designing newts! I only had one very small criticism of the text. On page 32, the authors state that Little Red Newt walked like some dinosaurs did but we really don’t know how dinosaur bodies moved as they walked, since we have no direct observations. This was the only tiny non-scientific speculation in the book and does not detract at all from this delightful story of a small but fascinating creature that God created. Plumfield Press has done a very good job of reprinting this public-domain science classic, with glossy white paper and computer-refreshed illustrations.