Platypuses

Australian Animals

by Sara Louise Kras

Platypuses live only in Australia. Learn all about these unusual, duck billed divers and their habitats in Platypuses.

Genres: Nonfiction, Animals, Childrens

24 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2009

About the author

Sara Louise Kras is an American children’s book author. Her first book titled Giant Lizards was published in 2000. Since then she has had thirty books published. The range of these books are for children ages five to fifteen.

Because the majority of her books are nonfiction, she has traveled the world for research. She’s ridden elephants to ancient temples in Cambodia, tracked lions and leopards in Botswana, dived with great white sharks in South Africa, snorkeled with sea lion at the Galapagos Islands, and observed polar bears in the Arctic.

On a trip around the world, she visited Egypt, Jordan, India, China, and Indonesia. While in Indonesia she traveled off-the-beaten path to the Komodo Islands to see the Komodo dragons – the largest lizard in the world – in their natural habitat.

She lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband. Currently, she is working on several children’s book projects. Her newest fiction book, The Hunted, Polar Prey, is based on a true story.