| Description |
144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Intriguing creatures that crawl, creep, hop, run, swim, and fly". |
| Summary |
A collection of 30 short pieces that reveal fascinating facts on 30 different animals, previously published on the Nonfiction Minute blog (https://www.nonfictionminute.org/) |
| Audience |
8+. |
| Contents |
The invasion of the wolf spiders / Trish Marx -- In praise of vultures / Stephen Swinburne -- Rites and bite of passage / Sarah Albee -- Here come the cicadas! / Laurence Pringle -- Do animals ask for help? / Aline Alexander Newman -- Reading has gone to the dogs / David M. Schwartz -- Smelling feet or smelly feet? / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent -- Tiny frogs are big news / Laurence Pringle -- Sergeant Stubby / Cheryl Harness -- The way polar bears stay warm is cool / Vicki Cobb -- Alligator smiles / Stephen Swinburne -- Animals in space / Roxie Munro -- Eight toxic armpits? / Heather L. Montgomery -- What's it like being a wolf? / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent -- Did the hero dog survive? / Laurence Pringle -- Ants in a jam / Sarah Albee -- Percy the cat / Aline Alexander Newman -- A pigeon goes to war / Cheryl Harness -- How skunks play fair / Laurence Pringle -- The fish that sees red / Steve Jenkins -- Chimponaut: a hero forgotten and remembered / Jan Adkins -- My visit with the penguins / Jim Whiting -- Lonesome George : the face of extinction / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent -- White House friends with fur and feathers / Cheryl Harness -- Taz in big trouble / Laurence Pringle -- The bald eagle survives! / Nancy Castaldo -- Alex the parrot, a real bird brain / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent -- Watch a webmaster at work / Laurence Pringle -- Who eats the largest jelly fish in the world -- and enjoys it? / Stephen Swinburne -- Everything is connected : the butterfly effect and the wolf / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent. |
| Subject |
Animals -- Juvenile literature.
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Animals -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
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Animals. (OCoLC)fst00809468
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Haddon, Jean, editor.
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Nonfiction minute (Blog).
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iNK Think Tank.
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| Added Title |
Thirty animals that share our world |
| ISBN |
9781633225008 |
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1633225003 |
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