Burton, Jane

Text and photographs follow a baby chick through its first year of life as it learns how to peck for food, plays with other chicks, and develops into a rooster.

Depicts the early life of three fox cubs who are abandoned by their mother and cared for in a special animal hospital until they are ready to return to the wild.

Depicts a pony growing, learning, and playing during the first year of its life on a farm.

Photographs and text show the development of a kitten from birth to ten weeks old.

More than five hundred sequential photographs, with captions and text, explain the story of bird, reptile, insect, fish, and amphibian development, from the initial signs of growth through the struggle to hatch.

Photographs and text follow a guinea pig and his siblings as they grow, learn, and play during their first year of life.

Describes the wide variety of patterns found throughout the plant and animal world including the petals of flowers, stripes of zebras, and scales of cones.

Text and photographs describe how a toad changes from a tadpole to a toadlet to a toad during its first three years of life and how it eats, hibernates, and spawns.