Badger's Burrow (Hole Truth! Underground Animal Life)

Phillips, Dee

ISBN 10: 1617727458 ISBN 13: 9781617727450

Publisher: Bearport Books, 2013

Synopsis

Looks at badger burrows and how badgers use them to stay safe and raise their young.

About this title

About the Author:

Dee Phillips lives on an English farm, surrounded by sheep, cows, and llamas. She has been working as an editor and a writer of children's books for nearly ten years.

From Booklist:

The Hole Truth! Underground Animal Life series tunnels beneath readers’ feet to introduce an array of industrious creatures you might otherwise not be lucky enough to see. Each book takes advantage of a long, horizontal trim, all the better to catch these four-legged animals as they dig, nurse, and explore. The photographs are crisp, the layout is clear, and the many side boxes and captions are helpful and rarely overwhelm. Badger’s Burrow follows these “chunky animals” as they dig hundreds of local burrows, prey upon smaller animals with inferior burrows, and birth one to five kits. The boxed fun facts are strong (“A newborn badger weighs about 3 ounces. That’s the same as 15 quarters”), as are the photo arrays of predators and prey. Each title ends with a “Science Lab” visual identification challenge, as well as a picture glossary, making this a very reader-friendly, unexpectedly high-interest package. Grades 2-4. --Daniel Kraus

About this edition

• Publisher: Bearport Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1617727458
• ISBN 13: 9781617727450
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 24