wildlife watching

The author describes the unique and varied assortment of animals she observed during a stay at Wallaby Creek, Australia. Her own watercolor paintings of goannas, cockatoos, kookaburras, platypuses, wallabies, kangaroos, koalas, dingoes, and other animals accompany her descriptions.

Discusses whales and whaling and explains how to tell one whale from another and how to watch them from land and sea.

Gives instruction on how to explore nature by using binoculars. Comes with binoculars.

Author/illustrator Ted Lewin relates fourteen of his experiences with wild animals while traveling the world, following each anecdote with facts about the featured animal and its habitat.

As the reader turns the page, a new animal is added to an illustration of a country home in the winter.

Discusses the behavior and the habitats of different kinds of animals and what can be learned by observing birds, mammals, insects, and other kinds of wildlife.