Chomp-O-Rama: The Strange Ways That Animals Eat
Written by Maria Birmingham
Illustrated by: Kyle Reed
Due mid April 2025
Read as an online reader copy
Review done by Me
This book was exactly what I thought it would be and a little different. The little differences were it was a lot younger looking than I thought it would be and the illustrations were a bit less filled out than I personally would have liked. Exactly what I thought it was was the part about how Birmingham compares the animal world with the human world by exploring how and what we eat. 
The human eats a variety of foods, but the panda only eats one. The human eats one meal at a time, but there is a mouse that eats about every fifteen minutes or so. Humans chew their food but a snake swallows it whole. A crocodile eats rocks not for tasty but to help digestion where as humans, well a few kids I knew ate them, too, but they weren’t supposed to. This is done in a “side by side” comparison format. Reed’s illustrations will show an animal doing the act, while the somewhat equivalent by the human is shown on the page previous. They give you the introduction without going into too much detail, but are not overly lacking either.
I would mostly say this would work best in a classroom setting, but if you have a child interested in animals, this will work one-on-one as well. The animals shown are not always traditional, and the people are diverse in ages, race, religion, and different abilities.