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Weird But True Animal Homes
Do some birds really build their nests in a cactus? Do some salamanders live so deep in caves that they have no eyes? Are there animals living under the Antarctic ice? Readers find out as they read and learn about some wonderful animals and their unusual homes.
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Well designed to inject jolts of interest into emerging readers, each of these mini-albums presents marvelsfrom crowd-pleasing information about fried crickets and durian (a fruit that "smells like dead fish or dirty toilets!") in Food to giant hailstones and lenticular clouds in Weather. Each spread features a paragraph about the strange thing or phenomenon, opens with an attention-grabbing headline ("Kuiper Belt/Can it hold up your pants?"), and closes with the refrain, "Its weird, but its true!" Large color photos or illustrations reflect the featured subjects. The back matter in each volume will stoke further curiosity nicely., School Library Journal Fall 2011
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