Wildlife Wong and the Sumatran Rhino

This is a great book (like all of your others… of course) for kids who want to help the environment or just want to read and learn about different animals.
Sumatran rhinos are so interesting. I enjoyed reading all the facts like what they eat, why they are endangered, how we can help, and that their horns are made of a protein called keratin. I never knew Sumatran rhinos descended from Woolly Rhinos.
I love all the stories about Wildlife Wong, especially when Wong tries something new like taxidermy.
The way that you bold and explain difficult words that some kids (including me) might not understand, makes it so much easier and more exciting to read. We are learning so much as we read…… interesting facts, big fancy words and so much more.

My favourite part of this book was reading about when William taught Wildlife Wong how to stuff an animal and when Wong stuffed the leopard cat. While reading the book, I felt anger and disbelief, because people have let the rhinos die out.
Wildlife’s Wong’s work is absolutely amazing. It is great at the end to find out interesting information about the animals I just read about and follow the fun experiments!

I think other people should read Wildlife Wong and the Sumatran Rhino so they can learn more about rhinos and sun bears too. I liked it when Wildlife Wong learnt how to stuff animals. It's cool that the Sumatran rhino is a good swimmer like me. I thought the idea of grinding up our toenail clippings and selling them for lots of money was a funny idea, but it shows us how careless we are when we kill rhinos to grind up their horns.

‘Wildlife Wong’ is Dr Sarah Pye’s engaging non-fiction series featuring a real-life ecologist whose experiences with wildlife conservation in Southeast Asia make fascinating reading for children. In Wildlife Wong and the Sumatran Rhino, Wong studies veterinary science in Taiwan, surveys species in the north of Malaysia, and investigates the endangered Sumatran rhinos in a rainforest of Borneo. He and his team deal with harsh weather, injury – and leeches! Facts about rhinoceroses, sun bears, poaching, and even taxidermy are cleverly woven into an interesting narrative of Wong’s adventures, giving readers a rare glimpse into the life of a scientist in the field. Activities at the end invite children to learn more and become ‘citizen scientists’. This series fills a big gap in children’s non-fiction and is a must for any primary school library.

Ideal for curious 10- to 12-year-olds, Wildlife Wong and the Sumatran Rhino, is organised into sections, starting with some historical information about this species of rhino and its lineage going back to the woolly mammoth. Pye's distinctive chatty writing style emerges, one that helps young readers make connection with their own experiences and as well as scaffolding language acquisition of more difficult and scientific language. the book concludes with some engaging science projects and ideas for becoming involved as local 'citizen scientists'.