animals

Contains eighteen analogies between human and animal behavior, showing how animals use their bodies in place of the tools, gadgets, and equipment on which humans depend.

Describes how animals stay cool in hot weather, by such actions as wallowing in mud, burrowing, or panting.

Photographs and text show how animals use water, dust, tongues, claws, and beaks to keep themselves clean.

Text and pictures take the reader inside different animal homes, including a beaver's lodge, an oven bird's nest, and a trapdoor spider's burrow.

Introduces a variety of baby animals, discussing how they learn, feed, grow, and survive.

Describes the early development, both before and after birth, of the young of such animals as the crocodile, Shetland pony, and human being.

Describes some of the different animals that live on the American plains, in the ice and snow, at the seashore, in deserts, in the woods, and in other specific habitats.

Questions and answers introduce the world of animals, the different varieties, and their behavior.

Describes the behavior, anatomy, and inner workings of various shelled animals, including the oyster, turtle, and crab.

Presents brief descriptions of various animals in such categories as "slowest and fastest animals," "smallest and largest bears," "heaviest snake," and other superlatives.