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Baby Animals of the Mountains
Readers meet the baby animals of the mountains. This easy-to-read book is filled with great information and cute full-color photographs of many animals, including baby pandas, llamas, and mountain lions in their natural environment. Young readers will adore learning about nature's baby animals.
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Who doesnt love adorable baby animals? The large, close-up photos of young animals both on the covers and interiors of these books in the Natures Baby Animals series are irresistibly cute. The text, although less pleasing to the eye, stays focused and gives just the right amount of interesting information. Each book begins by introducing the relevant environment. Subsequent spreads are devoted to a wide range of baby animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans. Baby Animals of Lakes and Ponds explores the life of baby capybaras, mallard ducks, turtles, and more in and around the water. Baby Animals of the Mountains explains how baby pandas, guanacos, peregrine falcons, and others live and stay safe in their environment. Baby Animals of the Seashore covers horseshoe crab larvae, king penguin chicks, harbor seal pups, and so on. The stars of Baby Animals of the Wetlands include dragonflies, Florida panthers, wood ducks, and egrets. One quibble: in such short books the amount of front and back matter feels a bit excessive. For example, each book devotes an entire page at the beginning to just three or four Words to Know and separate pages at the end to listing related books and websites. The front matter also includes a table of contents, and each book has a brief index., Booklist May 1, 2011
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