Opening with attention-grabbing drama--"Teeth pierce! Tails splash!" (Dolphin), "Claws rip! Horns stab!" (Lion)-and using words like "challenger," "battle," and "winner," each of these short texts presents a blow-by-blow encounter between a predator or group of predators and their common prey. Surprisingly (but realistically), the prey escapes (or in the case of Tarantula, successfully defends a clutch of nestlings) in five of the eight titles. Dolphin includes a simplistic claim that "A dolphin will help an injured person in the sea," but in general the information is accurate. In Crocodile, Owl, Shark, Tarantula, and Wolf, close-up scenes of feasting predators may disturb more sensitive young viewers (in the volumes on the other creatures, predator and prey are seen in different pictures), but for the most part the photos are more exciting than disturbing. School Library Journal April 2011.