Burton, Jane

Describes how plants and animals adapt to different environments in order to survive.

A photo essay about the first six to eight months in the life of a duckling, abandoned before hatching and later adopted by a farmyard hen.

Text and photographs follow a newborn rabbit through her first year of life as she receives nourishment from her mother, explores her environment, plays with other rabbits, and has babies of her own.

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

Depicts a seal in its early life as it grows, plays, and learns to feed itself.

Depicts a barn owl feeding growing, and learning to hunt and fly during the first year of its life.

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.

Photographs and text depict how animals use teeth, claws, spikes, horns, camouflage, poison, and other ways to protect themselves from their enemies.

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.