ALA Booklist (Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 CDT 2014)

Infographics have taken the Internet by storm as of late, proving that the human mind is always seeking clear, graphic representations of complex comparisons. The Infographics series aims to introduce this modern brand of graph-making to young readers via inventive yet easy-to-digest illustrations. Animal Infographics is the perfect place to start. Take, for example, the chart depicting the life spans of animals, which uses a winding path as a metaphor for the journey of life, with silhouettes of animals stopped along the way, from the gorilla at 30 years to the human at 80 years to the giant tortoise at 150 years. Even better are the graphs that make literal the very concepts they describe, like the distance graph over which various animals showcase their longest jump, or the bar graphs over which animals boast their vertical jumps. Colorful, cogent, and creative d a boon to young stat-hounds tasked with filling their research papers with figures.

Horn Book (Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2014)

Explaining that an infographic is a picture (graph, chart, map) that provides information, these simple introductions offer arbitrary examples. Animal compares, for instance, different animals' weight, physical features, speed, diet, and lifespans. Population compares stats on gender, age, life expectancy, language, education, and religion. Readers will come away with a basic understanding of the tools. Reading list. Glos., ind.

School Library Journal (Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 CDT 2014)

OXLADE, Chris . Environment Infographics . ISBN 9781410962171 ; ISBN 9781410962225 . LC 2013012530. OXLADE, Chris . Population Infographics . ISBN 9781410962188 ; ISBN 9781410962232 . LC 2013012535. OXLADE, Chris . Weather Infographics . ISBN 9781410962195 ; ISBN 9781410962249 . LC 2013012536. ea vol: 32p. (Infographics Series). chart. diag. further reading. glossary. illus. index. maps. websites. Heinemann-Raintree . 2014. lib. ed. $29.32. pap. $7.99. Gr 2-5 Though uneven in consistency, at their best, these collections of statistical information demonstrate the real value of well-designed infographics. Each volume contains a series of neatly designed full-page or full-spread graphic images with simply phrased explanatory captions. Many of the images are just arbitrarily sized silhouette illustrations with labels or even conventional pie and bar charts. Often enough, though, some imagination has been used to present information both numerically and visually at oncefrom a chart combining cloud types, shapes, and altitudes in Weather Infographics to silhouettes of various land animals placed on a speed line and a world map with selected (and labeled) country flags that are sized to reflect populations. Oxlade does not cite his sources, but leads to print and web resources are provided at the end.