Otter Video Book

  The Otter Video Book by Bob Arnebeck   Now, you can see what a video book is. Video clips of otters will play on each of the pages of the book once you click the video player to start. There is no narration nor added sound track on any of the video clips. Otters, in my experience, are rather quiet animals, which isn't the case in most movies about them. I will interpret the video clips in the accompanying text, so what I saw determines the course of the "book." That sounds simple enough, but having your reading continually interrupted by a video clip from one to five minutes long, sometimes five of them on a page, or to have to watch a series of video clips without the aesthetic touches that make movie watching relaxing is not easy. However, most of my sightings were of otter mothers raising their pups, so that is what the "book" is mostly about, and they are certainly entertaining to watch. I also became quite familiar with the habitat in wh