Baby Animals With Their Families
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Baby Animals With Their Families
Albatross families include one mom, one dad, and one chick. The chicks in this colony all look the same, but parents know which chick belongs to them. If they get separated, they can find their baby with a special call.
Readers can feel the warmth and love between baby animals and their families in Suzi Eszterhas' Baby Animals with Their Families.
Eszterhas takes readers on a journey alongside chimpanzees, lions, humpback whales, sloths, and other animals with their families. Readers will learn a variety of facts, including the names of animal groups (e.g., "A group of giraffes is called a tower."), the roles animals play in their families, and animals' ways of communicating. However, readers won't learn all these facts for each of the animals.
Most of Eszterhas' photographs are spread across two pages, and they provide a close-up look at the animals. From the fine lines on chimpanzees' faces to the thin, small hairs on elephants' trunks, the details found in her photographs are remarkable. Eszterhas has a knack for capturing heart-melting photos between baby animals and their parents. A baby sloth cuddled on her mom's chest and a baby bat-eared fox nestled cozily under the parent's chin are a couple of the photos that may have readers wishing thry were cuddling those cute baby animals!
Baby Animals with Their Families will leave readers wanting more. Luckily, there are several other books in the “Baby Animals” series, including: Baby Animals Eating, Baby Animals Playing, and Baby Animals Moving. Eszterhas also has another series titled "Eye on the Wild" which takes a look at baby animals as they mature into adulthood in the wild.
Kelsey Sukich is a grade-one French-immersion teacher at École Rivière-Rouge in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She loves spending her days outside in nature observing animals in their natural habitats.