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published
May 31st 1979
(first published 1975)
by Puffin
binding
Paperback, 96 pages
isbn
0140491864
(isbn13: 9780140491869)
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Suggestions for collecting and keeping as pets such small animals as snails, toads, worms, ants, butterflies, and starfish.
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Read in May, 2009
I read this one with my six-year-old son, who scored six large glass jars at a yard sale for $0.30, and said, "Now can we get slugs?" I hoped to talk him into a praying mantis or maybe some tadpoles instead. This title covers fourteen different pets that can be kept in a jar, inckuding those three (and butterflies, starfish, ants...).
We took turns reading the chapters, stopping so the boy could exclaim things like, "We can cut their heads in half! And make two-heade...more
We took turns reading the chapters, stopping so the boy could exclaim things like, "We can cut their heads in half! And make two-heade...more
This book is out of date and there are ertainly better guides on the care of keeping small critters out there, BUT I still loved this one because it got me obsessed with keeping every little bug and snake and such back in the day.
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