![]() ![]() Visually engaging and brimming with data, these books are perfect for reports on these animals or the Australian continent. Back matter includes a map of the habitat, six fun facts, and instructions for accessing FactHound's site to research related topics. ![]() In both titles, the cut-paper illustrations in scenic spreads feature a night-time palette of indigo, olive, mocha, and burnt sienna. I picked this book up at the gift shop when exiting the American Museum of Natural Historys Extreme Mammals exhibit. Along the way, readers will also learn to identify other species in the biome, via captioned images. Her narrative of a female's life from birthing preparations through raising the young cleverly contrasts with distinctly hued boxes of fast facts, such as the length of a platypus's burrow or size of a newborn wombat. Arnold opens with a brief entry stating where the mammal lives and its habitat, food, length, weight, animal class, and scientific name. Review of A Platypus' World and A Wombat's World by Caroline Arnold:Įach of these books describes one Australian mammal. To purchase a fine art print or card of one of the illustrations from A Platypus' World, go to For a preview of the book, click here. Look in your library for more information about platypuses in Caroline Arnold's book, Australian Animals, (Harper Collins, 2000) and Shockers of the Sea(Charlesbridge Publishing, 1999). Back matter includes a map of where platypuses live, fun facts, a glossary and index, and a guide to websites appropriate for the age group. Sidebars on each page spread expand information in the text. Read aloud to younger children or an older child can read it alone. It shows platypuses in their natural homeĪlong with other animals that share their environment. Story follows two baby platypuses from birth in a an eastern Australian woodland The tales of these strange animals and the world in which they live.The Cut paper illustrations by the author help tell Provides a close-up look at these unusual mammals. ![]() Take a swim through this book and find out what happens in a platypus' world. As the babies get older, they learn to find food in the stream. Soon, a tiny baby platypus hatches from each egg. Inside a burrow next to a stream, the mother platypus lays two eggs. It is at home both on land and in the water. This egg laying mammal is found only in Australia. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.The platypus is a strange animal, with a bill like a duck and a fur coat and flat tail like a beaver. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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