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Amazing Animals
Komodo Dragons
Meet Earth's heaviest lizard! Introduce elementary kids to Komodo dragons and their venomous bites.
As monitor lizards, Komodo dragons are large and in charge. They can only be found on a few islands in Indonesia where there are no other predators. Readers explore this large reptile's features and behaviors, including its diet and baby dragons. An end folk tale shares an Indonesian story about where Komodo dragons come from.
A great nonfiction resource for student reports, animal units, and life science lessons. Includes table of contents, index, same-page definitions, and further resources.
As monitor lizards, Komodo dragons are large and in charge. They can only be found on a few islands in Indonesia where there are no other predators. Readers explore this large reptile's features and behaviors, including its diet and baby dragons. An end folk tale shares an Indonesian story about where Komodo dragons come from.
A great nonfiction resource for student reports, animal units, and life science lessons. Includes table of contents, index, same-page definitions, and further resources.
24 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Valerie Bodden
365 books39 followersValerie Bodden writes children's nonfiction as well as Christian romance (under the name Valerie M. Bodden--visit the Goodreads page for her Christian romance at https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...).
She is the author of more than 300 children's books. Her books have received critical acclaim from Booklist, Children's Literature, ForeWord Magazine, Horn Book Guide, VOYA, and School Library Journal.
Valerie lives in Wisconsin with her husband, four children, one dog, two cats, a growing collection of fish, and miscellaneous bugs that her children have "rescued" from the outdoors. She spends most of her time writing or wrangling children and animals
Find her online at www.valeriembodden.com (Christian fiction), www.valeriebodden.com (children’s nonfiction), or www.vbeditorial.com (editing services).
She is the author of more than 300 children's books. Her books have received critical acclaim from Booklist, Children's Literature, ForeWord Magazine, Horn Book Guide, VOYA, and School Library Journal.
Valerie lives in Wisconsin with her husband, four children, one dog, two cats, a growing collection of fish, and miscellaneous bugs that her children have "rescued" from the outdoors. She spends most of her time writing or wrangling children and animals
Find her online at www.valeriembodden.com (Christian fiction), www.valeriebodden.com (children’s nonfiction), or www.vbeditorial.com (editing services).
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January 12, 2026
(READ TOGETHER WITH Geckos)
We had both geckos and smaller monitor lizards (of which Komodo dragons are a family member) in Malaysia; the former running up and down our apartment walls and eating all the bad bugs, while the latter sunned themselves on the side of the road on the daily bus ride through the jungle to Mont Kiara International School.
Unlike the cute pictures in Geckos, this book has some rather iffy photos of dragons scarfing down large dead mammals that might be a bit much for really young readers. Also, I didn't know young Komodos spent their early years living in trees, to avoid being eaten by - among other things - other dragons.
FUN STORY: A friend of mine came home and found a 3-foot monitor hissing at him from under the dining room table, and so he had to call the snake/lizard/monkey removal guy - because, you know, in Malaysia that's a job.
We had both geckos and smaller monitor lizards (of which Komodo dragons are a family member) in Malaysia; the former running up and down our apartment walls and eating all the bad bugs, while the latter sunned themselves on the side of the road on the daily bus ride through the jungle to Mont Kiara International School.
Unlike the cute pictures in Geckos, this book has some rather iffy photos of dragons scarfing down large dead mammals that might be a bit much for really young readers. Also, I didn't know young Komodos spent their early years living in trees, to avoid being eaten by - among other things - other dragons.
FUN STORY: A friend of mine came home and found a 3-foot monitor hissing at him from under the dining room table, and so he had to call the snake/lizard/monkey removal guy - because, you know, in Malaysia that's a job.
May 16, 2019
It's a good book, but I don't like that they eat geckos!
-- Eldon
-- Eldon
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March 5, 2020
A great resource for our animals of the world unit!
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