Fiona the baby hippo is puzzled by the excitement the other zoo animals feel over Christmas, but after meeting Chloe the koala, who has just arrived, she begins to understand.

A simple introduction to the baby and adult animals that live in grassland areas.

Illustrated throughout with outstanding color photographs, Strange Animals presents the attributes of 100 of the most curious species. The selection spans a broad spectrum of wildlife, from the tallest land-living mammal, the giraffe, to the light, laughing chorus of Australian kookaburra birds, from the intelligence of the bottlenose dolphin to octopuses that change color when they dream to the slow pace of the three-toed sloth.

"Tom has a hen in his backpack. What will happen next? Ben has a new pet, but what is it?"--Back cover.

Life in a big, diverse family is already an adventure, but life at the Mulligan Wild Animal Park is downright epic! Meet the Magnificent Mulligans, a crazy family with a bunch of cool kids--living the dream as they operate a 1250-acre wild animal park. Except it doesn't feel like much a dream for Hector. Fresh off the tough streets of Bogota, Columbia, Hector can't understand why the Mulligan family cares so much about taking care of animals--especially...

"The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth. Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller--including gorilla-sized lemurs, 800-pound birds, crocodiles that weighed a ton or more--roamed the earth. These great beasts, or "megafauna," lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. What caused the disappearance of these...

"From the pika to fennec fox, blue morpho butterfly to baby seal, meet tons of adorable animals from all around the world in this Level 2 reader"--

"Turtles are found on every continent EXCEPT Antarctica. But not for long! When a David Attenborough-esque narrator explains that turtles are found everywhere except Antarctica, one determined turtle sets out to prove him wrong. After recruiting other non-Antarctic animals along the way--much to the narrator's dismay--the turtle and his adventurous friends travel through fields, forests, and cross an entire ocean to reach their goal. But what exactly...

A beginning reader book containing two stories featuring Frog and his friends, where the friends mistake a train for a terrible dragon and Frog rescues a baby possum after it falls into a river.

"Joel Sartore, on a mission to photograph all the animal species in human care, now features photographs selected to represent the amazing diversity of the world's animals, highlighting the fascinating shapes, patterns, and expressions of animals both familiar and little known"--