A Safe Home for Manatees

by Priscilla Belz Jenkins

Book Overview

Only three months old, a baby manatee nuzzles under his 1200-pound mother's flipper for a drink of her rich milk. Soon they will migrate to find more food and a warm place to spend the winter. but, on the way, they will have to dodge speedboats, swim through locks, and endure polluted waters. These gentle giants have roamed tropical lagoons and rivers for almost fifty million years, yet today there are fewer than 3,000 Florida manatees. The reason?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006445164X
• ISBN13: 9780064451642
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 10.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4