| Description |
1 online resource (109 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps |
| Contents |
Axolotl -- Aye-Aye -- Bar-headed goose -- Barking spider -- Bee hummingbird -- Bilby -- Blobfish -- Blue-footed booby -- Cantor's giant soft-shelled turtle -- Chinese giant salamander -- Dugong -- Echidna -- Elephant shrew -- Flying snake -- Giant anteater -- Giant gippsland earthworm -- Giraffe-necked weevil -- Glass frog -- Great hornbill -- Guineafowl pufferfish -- Hagfish -- Hammer-headed bat -- Honey badger -- Horned puffin -- Humpback anglerfish -- Jesus Christ lizard -- Komodo dragon -- Leafy sea dragon -- Long-eared jerboa -- Magnapinna squid -- Mimic octopus -- Narwhal -- Olm -- Pea frog -- Pink fairy armadillo -- Platypus -- Pygmy marmoset -- Saddleback caterpillar -- Sea pig -- Slow loris -- Solenodon -- Star-nosed mole -- Tapir -- Tardigrade -- Texas horned lizard -- Three-toed sloth -- Tiburonia granrojo -- Weddell seal -- Wombat -- Yeti crab. |
| Summary |
This book introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life forms. From the top of Mt. Everest to 10,000 feet under the sea, fascinating animals are everywhere. A basilisk that can run on water, an octopus that can mimic other animals, a fish that defends itself with slime and ties itself in a knot to wipe the slime away ... plus dozens more! |
| Audience |
IG 1130 Lexile. |
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IG1130L Lexile |
| Summary |
Introduces some of the world's most unusual creatures, including an animal that can be found at the top of Mount Everest, under the sea, and in everyday yards; a creature with cube-shaped scat; and an animal that disguises itself as a crab. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Animals -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature.
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Animals -- Miscellanea.
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Animals. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
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Juvenile works.
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Miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Noordeman, Arjen, illustrator.
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Wright, Christie, illustrator.
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Noordeman, Jelmer, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hearst, Michael, 1972- Unusual creatures San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2012 9781452104676 (DLC) 2011048646 (OCoLC)768728898 |
| ISBN |
9781452119854 : $11.99 |
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1452119856 : $11.99 |
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