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Exploring the World of Raccoons
A glimpse inside the daily life of nature's masked bandits. Children find the bandit-masked face and button nose of a raccoon irresistibly cute, and catching a glimpse of one in a neighborhood tree never fails to excite. Raccoons describes the natural history of these cousins of the panda bear and explains how that heritage helps them thrive in cities as well as in fields and woodlands. Color photographs of adults and kits in urban and natural settings give readers the chance to look more closely at these elusive creatures, and children will enjoy the amusing descriptions of the raccoon's antics and mischief. But Raccoons also shows youngsters why they shouldn't feed these brazen visitors and that, even though they share our cities and towns, raccoons will always be wild animals. In the Exploring the World of... series, Firefly Books is pleased to present an exciting new nature series produced especially for young readers who are eager to learn more about the wild animals they find especially appealing. The books are packed with facts and offer outstanding value. Clear text in large type and vivid photographs with explanatory captions describe the animals' physical attributes, and storylike narratives about their daily life -- where they live, what they eat, how they hunt, how they communicate, how they raise their young -- present a complete picture of each animal.
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24 pages, Hardcover
First published March 11, 2010
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October 19, 2020
A glimpse inside the daily life of nature's masked bandits.
Children find the bandit-masked face and button nose of a raccoon irresistibly cute, and catching a glimpse of one in a neighborhood tree never fails to excite. Raccoons describes the natural history of these cousins of the panda bear and explains how that heritage helps them thrive in cities as well as in fields and woodlands. Color photographs of adults and kits in urban and natural settings give readers the chance to look more closely at these elusive creatures, and children will enjoy the amusing descriptions of the raccoon's antics and mischief. But Raccoons also shows youngsters why they shouldn't feed these brazen visitors and that, even though they share our cities and towns, raccoons will always be wild animals.
In the Exploring the World of... series, Firefly Books is pleased to present an exciting new nature series produced especially for young readers who are eager to learn more about the wild animals they find especially appealing. The books are packed with facts and offer outstanding value.
Clear text in large type and vivid photographs with explanatory captions describe the animals' physical attributes, and storylike narratives about their daily life -- where they live, what they eat, how they hunt, how they communicate, how they raise their young -- present a complete picture of each animal.
Children find the bandit-masked face and button nose of a raccoon irresistibly cute, and catching a glimpse of one in a neighborhood tree never fails to excite. Raccoons describes the natural history of these cousins of the panda bear and explains how that heritage helps them thrive in cities as well as in fields and woodlands. Color photographs of adults and kits in urban and natural settings give readers the chance to look more closely at these elusive creatures, and children will enjoy the amusing descriptions of the raccoon's antics and mischief. But Raccoons also shows youngsters why they shouldn't feed these brazen visitors and that, even though they share our cities and towns, raccoons will always be wild animals.
In the Exploring the World of... series, Firefly Books is pleased to present an exciting new nature series produced especially for young readers who are eager to learn more about the wild animals they find especially appealing. The books are packed with facts and offer outstanding value.
Clear text in large type and vivid photographs with explanatory captions describe the animals' physical attributes, and storylike narratives about their daily life -- where they live, what they eat, how they hunt, how they communicate, how they raise their young -- present a complete picture of each animal.
January 15, 2011
Young readers will probably have a newfound respect for this complex animal after closing this book.
Raccoons’ intelligence and adaptability have enabled them to thrive even after our towns and cities swallowed their natural habitat, but their success has also been their downfall. Humans are by far raccoons’ greatest enemy, the text notes, whether we kill them deliberately or in auto accidents. Indeed, after reading about the raccoons’ “hypersensitive paws”, I couldn’t help but wince at the thought of them being caught in traps.
A large photograph of a mother raccoon cuddling her kit, as well as talk of raccoons’ positive attributes and nonlethal ways to exclude them, might point young readers in the direction of a better way of coexisting with these animals.
Raccoons’ intelligence and adaptability have enabled them to thrive even after our towns and cities swallowed their natural habitat, but their success has also been their downfall. Humans are by far raccoons’ greatest enemy, the text notes, whether we kill them deliberately or in auto accidents. Indeed, after reading about the raccoons’ “hypersensitive paws”, I couldn’t help but wince at the thought of them being caught in traps.
A large photograph of a mother raccoon cuddling her kit, as well as talk of raccoons’ positive attributes and nonlethal ways to exclude them, might point young readers in the direction of a better way of coexisting with these animals.
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