Claudia Guadalupe Martinez

With Spanish vocabulary and a clever color concept, this poetic picture book shares the life cycle of beloved amphibian-the axolotl-in its natural habitat. An axolotl may look like one, but it is certainly Not a Monster. This curious creature, made popular by Minecraft, is actually a salamander that will never lose its gills or fins. Not a Monster explores the traits of the axolotl, the Aztec origin myth about the species, and the way pollution...