What can we learn from watching animals play?a Dogs chase each other and wrestle. Cats pounce and bite. These animals may look like they are fighting, but if you pay close attentionOCo as world-renowned biologist Marc Bekoff doesOCoyou can see they are playing and learning the rules of their games. In Animals at Play, Bekoff shows us how animals behave when they play, with full-color illustrations showing animals in action and having funOCofrom squirrels climbing up a tree to polar bears somersaulting in the snow.a

Bekoff emphasizes how animals communicate, cooperate and learn to play...

Loaded with lots of color photos and friendly information you can trust, the ASPCA Kids books were written by animal lovers for animals...

Tails for swimming, tails for balancing, tails like flags that lead the way. In Whose Tail Is This? some of the world's most fascinating tails are on display in all their bushy, scaly, or waggly glory. Following the same formula children loved in the previous seven books in his animal series, in Whose Tail Is This? Wayne Lynch asks children to identify everything from beluga whales to chameleons from up-close pictures of just their tails. With each turn of the page, a vivid color photograph of the entire animal is revealed. Accompanied by fun-filled facts and intriguing...

In this follow-up to his highly acclaimed book, Wild Animals in Captivity, biologist and activist Rob Laidlaw focuses our attention on the living conditions and treatment of animals that are captured, bred, trained, and kept for the purposes of human entertainment. He has travelled the world and documented abuses of animals in a variety of situations from roadside snake charmers in India, to dancing bears in China, to the racetracks and movie studios of North America.

2011 Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable - Information Book Award

"Raven and River "leads young readers on a fantastical journey with a raven across the icy Alaska landscape on the verge of spring. Along the way, the raven s sonorous cry wakes a cast of sleeping woodland creatures, including a bear, a beaver, a hare, and a squirrel all of whom join him in imploring the still-frozen river to melt and thereby initiate the change of seasons. Packed with information and featuring vibrant full-color illustrations by Jon Van Zyle, "Raven and River" brings to life these two important harbingers of Alaska s spring."

Descriptive prose, solid science, and never-before-seenimages of the reclusive Assateague herds reveal their fierce and untamedbeauty."