National Geographic Kids Mission: Wolf Rescue: All About Wolves and How to Save Them
This snazzily designed book describes the social behaviors and pack hierarchy of wolves, along with the basics of their physical features and a description of their habitats. It also offers an unflinching look at wolves’ predatory habits and feeding practices. Interviews with conservationists and scientists in the field, alongside pictures of them at work, are perfect for young readers contemplating a career in biological science. Full-color photographs, funny cartoons, and high-quality maps all lend themselves to the engaging layout. At the end of each chapter, readers will find rescue activities that underscore important themes from the main text, which can be completed alone, in a group, or with an adult, and vary in complexity and difficulty from novice to expert. The book leaves readers with the notions that there are actions they can personally take to conserve the environment and that science is not something one reads about, but rather something one does. Grades 3-6. --Erin Anderson