The series title: Super Cute! nails it! Baby Orangutans is one of  the 25 books in this series of non fiction books for emergent readers. The cover photograph reels the reader in with its big eyed (life-sized) baby orangutan face. The baby might be smiling, too.  Once inside the book, the two-page spreads contain two large font sentences on a patch of white, overlay the photo.

There are three, four page sections in the book: Orangutan Infant!, Life with Mom, and Learning from Mom. The seven vocabulary words  in bold type can be found with their definitions in the glossary at the back of the book. These include: ” bond – a close connection”,  comfort, grooms, and rain forest. Page 6 states, ” The infant acts a lot like a human baby. It sucks its thumb for comfort.”

Though this book is more picture than words, it does inform the reader the mother orangutan shows the baby how to build a nest for sleeping and how to find food, among other activities.

Includes an Index.