Starting Life: Crocodile

by Claire Llewellyn

These picture books illustrate the life cycles of fascinating animals and take readers through each stage that occurs from birth to adulthood. Lush, accurate illustrations of habitat feature plant life and other animals on die-cut pages that get longer as the subject grows!The interesting page sizes and full-page illustrations will appeal to young naturalist. ――-SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNALA beautifully illustrated and detailed book about the life cycle of a monarch butterfly. ――-OUTSTANDING SCIENCE TRADE BOOKS FOR STUDENTS K-12 (NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION/CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL)

24 pages, Hardcover

First published August 25, 2004

About the author

Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of non-fiction for young readers – in 1991, she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for Take One: Rubbish – and in 1992, she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then, Claire has written more than 100 children’s books on a wide range of subjects. Ask Dr K Fisher About Animals was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society prizes for Science Books Junior Prize.