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Backyard Pets: Activities for Exploring Wildlife Close to Home
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Item Description...
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Focuses on the insects, birds, amphibians, and other animal life found in many backyards and provides instructions for catching, caring for, studying and releasing those that are safe to touch. Original.
Publishers Description
Get to know the amazing creatures right outside your door!
What do toads like to eat? Why do crickets sing? Why does a firefly glow? If you've ever longed to know more about the habits of the animals and insects that live in your backyard, here's the book you've been waiting for! With Backyard Pets, you'll find out how to catch and care for lots of different, easy-to-find critters, from terrific toads to slithering slugs. You'll perform all sorts of investigations and activities, including discovering how snails eat and how caterpillars protect themselves, before you return your newly found pets safely to their natural home. And you'll even find out how to attract birds and butterflies to homemade feeders and gardens so that you can observe them every day as they go about their amazing lives.
As you take care of your pets, you'll learn how to interpret fireflies' signals; how to entice worms from their burrows with sound; and how to make birdfeeders, hummingbird gardens, and toad abodes. Along the way, you'll discover lots of fascinating facts about the lives of these clever critters-from what their favorite foods are to how they see, hear, and move, and even how they help the environment. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 128
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 7.75" Height: 9.5"
Weight: 0.5 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Age 8-12
ISBN 0471416932
EAN 9780471416937
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Availability 100 units.
Availability accurate as of May 24, 2012 08:26.
Usually ships within one to two business days from Bridgewater NJ.
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About this Author/Artist CAROL A. AMATO is a nature science educator, language-learning specialist, and nature writer.
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 | My favorite backyard nature study book Apr 16, 2008 |
I just LOVE this book. This is a book I found at my local library and wanted for my own.
Section 1: Bringing Backyard Pets Home
1. snails and slugs
2. toads
3. worms
4. crickets
5. caterpillars
6. fireflies
Each chapter includes information about the animal, how to keep it in your home, investigations (like little experiments you can do) and activities.
Section 2: Attracting Wildlife to Your Backyard
1. Bird Feeding and Housing
2. Hummingbirds
3. Butterfly Gardening
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