Lifetime The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives

Lola M. Schaefer, Christopher Silas Neal

eBook - 2013

A children's author "use[s] traits and developmental milestones of 11 species . . . to take full measure of animal lives . . . As intriguing as it is gorgeous" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In one lifetime, a caribou will shed ten sets of antlers, a woodpecker will drill thirty roosting holes, a giraffe will wear 200 spots, a seahorse will birth 1,000 babies. Count each one and many more while learning about the wondrous things that can happen in just one lifetime. This extraordinary book collects animal information not available anywhere else—and shows all thirty roosting holes, all 200 spots, and, yes, all 1,000 baby seahorses in eye-catching illustrations. A book about picturing numbers and considering the endless...ly fascinating lives all around us, Lifetime is sure to delight young nature lovers. A Junior Library Guild Selection "A delightful read for the little future park ranger or mathematician in your life." —Buzzfeed "A fascinating addition to the curious reader's... more