Customer Reviews

Animal Baths: Wild and Wonderful Ways Animals Get Clean!

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There's a gentle, sympathetic quality to this charmingly illustrated book, which contains an amazing amount of information. My family and I were surprised to learn that birds must bath frequently or risk being slowed in flight by dirty feathers; that praying mantises have their ears on their antennae which they must keep scrupulously clean. And who knew how porcupines clean themselves (ouch?) - absolutely fascinating. My youngest is very taken with the final full page illustration: "It's like bath time at our house!"

The grandkids loved this book. They ( and I ) never realized how important it is for animals to keep clean. Interesting to see how many types of baths there are. Speaking as a frugal Scot, this has lots of bang for the buck--almost 50 pages of neat stuff.
Where were science books like this when I was young ?

My kids usually like books with really bright colors so I would not have chosen this book, but my son found it in our library and checked it out so many times that I finally bought a copy for our home library. I love watching him learn so much about animals and their behavior -- he is becoming a biologist before my eyes.

This book is truly wild and wonderful like the title says! Wanna know some cool facts about animals? This is your book. Animal Baths puts science into interesting tid bits of cool info on animals that you never would have thought to ask about, unless of course your a kid. My daughter loves this book. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves animals. I buy it to give as a birthday present for all those kid parties we're invited to.