Animal Do Strngst Thg

by Leonora Hornblow, Arthur Hornblow, Michael K. Hornblow, Leonora and Arthur, Illustrated by Frith

Book Overview

Describes nineteen animals that have peculiar and strange characteristics, including the platypus which has poison spurs on its legs, the opossum which fools its enemies by pretending to be dead, and the bat which navigates by built-in sonar.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394800567
• ISBN13: 9780394800561
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 3

Customer Reviews

So, they got it wrong about the lemmings.....

but the rest of the book is accurate. I really enjoyed these books when I was little, and my son does now. Modern books on similar subjects I find to be too light on words, and far too "cartoon" like, or cluttered about with marginalia and other distractions. I usually just skip the lemming part, and I explain that hibernating and sleeping are not the same thing. Likewise in the insects do the strangest things book, they say that man has yet to learn how to make light without heat. Which, at the time the books were written was true, so I just explain about luciferin/ luciferase.