Animals in Hot Places (Looking At... Series)

By Moira Butterfield

Book Overview

How do animals adapt to life in hot places, cold places, trees, and oceans? Through these titles, young readers will gain understanding of a broad range of the animals that inhabit four distinctive global habitats. Detailed photos are great discussion starters. Two-page maps show where each animal lives.Animals such as the camel, moloch lizard, and tapir cope with extreme heat through their unusual adaptations. Observations of life in the desert, rain forest, and grasslands cover a wide range of animals, from the hippopotamus to the sand cat.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739807153
• ISBN13: 9780739807156
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Steck-Vaughn Co
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3