Describes nineteen animals that have peculiar and strange characteristics, including the platypus which has poison spurs on its legs, the opossum which fools its enemies by pretending to be dead, and the bat which navigates by built-in sonar.
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So, they got it wrong about the lemmings.....,
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This review is from: Animals Do the Strangest Things (Step-up Bks.) (Hardcover)
but the rest of the book is accurate. I really enjoyed these books when I was little, and my son does now. Modern books on similar subjects I find to be too light on words, and far too "cartoon" like, or cluttered about with marginalia and other distractions. I usually just skip the lemming part, and I explain that hibernating and sleeping are not the same thing. Likewise in the insects do the strangest things book, they say that man has yet to learn how to make light without heat. Which, at the time the books were written was true, so I just explain about luciferin/ luciferase.
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Awesome Series!,
By Pamela Jones "Suzi Graham" (St. George, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Animals Do the Strangest Things (Step-Up Books) (Paperback)
I read these when I was elementry age and have bought thi series for my children. They are excellent! Large easy to read type and keeps kids entertained while imparting information. Well worth purchasing.
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Untruths,
By Zorro-3 "zorro-3" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animals Do the Strangest Things (Step-up Bks.) (Hardcover)
This book perpetuates that Disney myth about lemmings committing mass suicide. They don't do that. Who knows what other lies are in this book, since we know these authors weren't too particular about what they put in there?
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