First step nonfiction - animal adaptations

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to animals that live in the grassland and their unique characteristics, including bison with thick coats, ostriches with long legs for running, and elephants with long trunks to pull up grass.

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to animals that live in the desert and their unique characteristics, including foxes with large ears, gerbils with sand-colored coats, and geckos with webbed feet.

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to animals that live in the mountains and their unique characteristics, including yaks with thick fur coats to keep them warm in winter and mountain lions with strong legs to leap between rocks.

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to animals that live in lakes and their unique characteristics, including fish with gills for breathing and water striders who use long legs to skate atop the water.

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to animals that live in the forest and their unique characteristics, including ants with strong jaws for cutting leaves, deer with brown coats to help them hide, and porcupines with sharp quills to protect them.

Photographs and simple text introduce readers to animals that live in the ocean and their unique characteristics, including octopuses that change can color and whales that breathe through blowholes.