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Amazing Animals
Tortoises
Meet the amazing dome-shelled reptile! Introduce elementary kids to tortoises and their long lives in the wild.
Slow and steady, some tortoises can live up to 150 years! They live a quiet life of eating, basking in the sun, and digging burrows. Readers explore the many different kinds of tortoises, where they live, their behaviors and features, and why they move so slow, all with STEM-appropriate text and gorgeous photography. An end story retells Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare.
A great nonfiction resource for student reports, animal units, and life science lessons. Includes table of contents, index, same-page definitions, and further resources.
Slow and steady, some tortoises can live up to 150 years! They live a quiet life of eating, basking in the sun, and digging burrows. Readers explore the many different kinds of tortoises, where they live, their behaviors and features, and why they move so slow, all with STEM-appropriate text and gorgeous photography. An end story retells Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare.
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 February 1, 2014
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November 17, 2015
Tortoises by Kate Riggs contains basic information on tortoises, including an explanation of their appearance, behavior, and habitat. In my opinion, the Amazing Animals series is one of the greatest for elementary age children. This title, like others in the series, is full of photographs that really wow the reader, as well as a plethora of facts about tortoises. Besides the stunning photographs, a few other things really impressed me, such as the large print, the photo captions, and the definitions of unfamiliar terms right on the page rather than in the back. I thought this was a great way to keep kids engaged in the text and not have them flipping back and forth to the index, or rather skimming over words they don't know. I was amazed at how much tortoises look like dinosaurs, and I think kids would love that as well. Overall, a great non-fiction text for animal studies in 1st-5th grades.
January 13, 2014
Another good book from the Amazing Animals Series which is a great introduction to tortoises. The full color photos are very nice and give readers a close up view of the tortoise. Included in the back are websites and other books to read on this topic if one is more interested in it.
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