Series: Amazing Animals (Creative Education Hardcover) Each book also presents a folk story that people have used to help explain the animal's appearance or behavior. Beautiful photos are paired with accessible text to examine the featured creature's appearance, habitat, behaviors, and life cycle. Slow and steady, some tortoises can live up to 150 years They live a quiet life of eating, basking in the sun, and digging burrows. This popular and newly expanded series continues traveling the planet to study these and other fascinating animals. Tortoises Kate Riggs 3.81 16 ratings2 reviews Meet the amazing dome-shelled reptile Introduce elementary kids to tortoises and their long lives in the wild. From humpbacked camels to drumming woodpeckers, and from fast-flying hummingbirds to slow-moving tortoises, the world of animals is wonderfully diverse. Also included is a story from folklore explaining how woodpeckers take good care of their young. National Science Teachers Association -, Attractive layout, clean design, and intriguing close-up photos will lure browsers to these explorations of plant and animal life cycles.A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of woodpeckers, nature's drummers. The books in this series would be excellent for supporting National Science Standard C: Life Science-Life Cycles of Organisms. These full-page photos with captions support a large text so the books can be accessible to younger readers as well. The magnified photos are sure to attract the young reader as they gain an up-close look at the life stages.

School Library Journal, - Gorgeous close-up photos instantly engage young readers, while well-balanced text includes detailed captions and side-notes- Each high-interest topic extends classroom curriculum into home-based exploration- Ideal for natural history, nature, and gardening accounts, Written at approximately a fourth to fifth-grade level, the text provides an elementary but fascinating look at the life cycle.

National Science Teachers Association, Attractive layout, clean design, and intriguing close-up photos will lure browsers to these explorations of plant and animal life cycles. In my opinion, the Amazing Animals series is one of the greatest for elementary age children. Written at approximately a fourth to fifth-grade level, the text provides an elementary but fascinating look at the life cycle. Tortoises by Kate Riggs contains basic information on tortoises, including an explanation of their appearance, behavior, and habitat.