DK Readers: Wild Baby Animals (Level 1: Beginning to Read)
Gr. K^-3. Irresistible color images of animal young will draw kids into this Eyewitness Reader's simple, fact-packed text. In brief sentences, grouped one or two to a page and set against white space, the book offers information about baby animals' diet, grooming, communication, protection, and play. Throughout are inset pictures of animal body parts--hooves, lips, fingers, etc.--which are collected in a visual glossary on the last page, allowing young readers to hunt-and-seek for new vocabulary if the rest of the words prove too challenging. Wonderful color photos showing nurtured animals--a baby sloth lounging in the hammock of her mother, a joey peering contentedly from his mother's pouch--balance the text nicely. The last pages, picturing some of the animals maturing, learning new skills, and finally reaching childbearing adulthood, open the door for discussions about the life cycle. A fine choice for young animal lovers to read alone or aloud.Gillian EngbergCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.