Review: "Very Stimulating to Help Children Learn to Love Animals"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2014
The mission of this wonderful author is to 'instruct and inspire' children about nature and its importance to mankind.  One learns that baby crocodiles are called hatchlings, and they develop in eggs like a chicken, but carried in mama's mouth.  They have a special tooth to help them break out of the egg, and mama is there to help if needed.  Deer babies are fawns whether boy or girl.  We all know baby dogs are puppies, and they are born to sleep and eat.  Even as adults, that's their usual behavior!  The pups cannot see or hear until after 9-12 days of birth, and it's important they stay warm during this period, inside the home away from drafts.  Dolphin babies are calves?  Wow, just like baby cows!  They can swim fast when born to stay right beside their mama.  Baby donkeys are called foals like baby horses.  Doves are beautiful birds and their babies are called a squab or a chick (like chickens!)  DUCK! (No you don't have to duck!) Babies are ducklings who can swim fast and they follow mama wherever she goes.  They are fun to watch as they seem to run on top of water!  There are many more animals and wildlife delightfully introduced to children.  It would be fun to share this book with children and then take them to the local zoo for them to look for the animals they've learned about.  and, oops, kids, you best pay attention to this story because there's a little quiz at the end.  This book is awesome and very appealing and engaging.  I loved it!