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Synopsis
A playful fennec fox cub with huge ears and a charming camel calf with long eyelashes are just two of the adorable babies found in Animal Babies in Deserts. The child-friendly format uses sounds and clues to involve the youngest readers. This book is the perfect introduction to the animals that live in the driest places.
Marilyn Courtot - Children's Literature
This board book is filled with beautiful photographs of baby animals and babies with their mothers. The text is set up to elicit a response: It describes something about the baby animal and then asks, "Who is my mommy?" Turning the pages, kids will see the mother and also learn the proper name for the baby animal. This book will broaden knowledge and vocabularies as little ones learn about desert animals: camels, gerbils, ostriches, oryx (which look like thin cows with long sharp horns), fennec foxes, and ground squirrels. Not your ordinary animals in this book! The text closes by asking kids what special things their mothers do for them. This book is part of the "Animal Babies" series. 2006, Kingfisher/Houghton, Ages 6 mo. to 4.