Animal Groups: How Animals Live Together

In this book in the Animal Behavior series, discover how animals live together.

Sue Reichard - Children's Literature

Young children will enjoy learning how some animals work together to ensure their own survival. The over-size book and easy-to-read text combined with full and double-page color detailed illustrations are inviting to young eyes. Readers are introduced to leaf-cutter ants and how they work together to take food back to the colony. This provides an excellent example of teamwork and cooperation for the good of the group. African hunting dogs and coyotes are animals that hunt together in packs where each member has its own job to bring down the prey. Flamingos raise their babies in two-parent families and share the burden of raising their young. Readers will delight in the discovery that many animals play games. Young animals and older ones alike often enjoy this past time. Animals, such as gorillas, also groom each other. These creatures often take turns combing through each other's fur and removing pesky parasites. This book is not only factual, but a beautiful book for young eyes as well. It is a good resource that informs about animal groups and how they cooperate to survive. This book is good for intermediate age readers but can be used as a read-aloud for younger readers. It includes an index. 2004, Kids Can Press, Ages 7 to 11.

Award-winning author and teacher Etta Kaner enjoys writing nonfiction for both children and adults. Her books include Animals Migrating, Animal Talk , Animal Groups and other titles in the Animal Behavior series, as well as four titles in the Kids Can Read series. She is also author of the Exploring the Elements and Have You Ever Seen series. She lives in Toronto.

Pat Stephens, mother, animal lover and artist, lives in a crowded house in Durham, Ontario. She has illustrated over 20 animal - related books for children.