Poetic text follows a star-nosed mole, an animal that lives in wetlands, as it makes its way through an underground tunnel and into a pond. When five baby rabbits and their mother shelter from the rain underneath a hedge, they are joined by other creatures like butterflies, hummingbirds, and grasshoppers. From the agouti to the zorillo, dazzling photographs reveal an exotic array of animals found in the Amazon Rain Forest. A rhyming introduction to the names for the offspring of rabbits, seals, deer, and other animals.
Animals sleep in many different ways, including upside down and with their eyes open.
As siblings Cammy and William follow a pondside trail to pick blueberries, they spot evidence of and try to guess the identity of the unseen animals that have been there before them. Comparisons of animal pairs like the domestic cat and the tiger show that animals related to each other can vary greatly in size. After wild geese hatch their eggs on a pond island, one adventurous gosling keeps wandering away. Readers learn how to identify different cats, dogs, rabbits, frogs, and other animals by their tracks and other clues that they leave behind. In the midst of a city, a young boy finds a special place where ducks nest and possums come to drink.