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Synopsis
Is there anything cuter than a baby animal? Here, wee ones of the Northwest animal world — including wolves, foxes, sea otters, cougars, and crows — are portrayed in stunning images from world-renowned photographer Art Wolfe. His ability to capture a burrowing owlet in mid-yawn or a bobcat mother tenderly protecting her kittens delights children of all ages. Fun facts — Did you know that a four-day-old pronghorn antelope can outrun a human? Or that a mama sea otter wraps her pup in kelp so it won’t float away? — educate as they entertain, making Northwest Animal Babies a must for any child.
Kirkus Reviews
Fuzzy raccoons peek, feathery burrowing owls yawn, a bison calf peers, all in this photographic take on the animal young of the Pacific Northwest. The collaborators behind O Is for Orca present nature at its most fascinatingþthe startling habits and behaviors of animal babies in the wild. Each up-close portrait of kits, kids, chicks, or fledglings gives the illusion of looking through binoculars or a telephoto lens as readers meet cougar cubs, golden eagle eaglets or harbor seal pups face-to-face. The narrow geographic perimeters of the Northwest do not limit the subject, with opossum kits alongside orca calves, porcupine kits next to trumpeter swan cygnets. Bite-sized facts about each baby's beginnings in the world accompany the full-color photos. Almost every carefully worded passage includes a particularly memorable pearlþopossums are no bigger than honeybees at birth, Canada geese goslings create "make-believe nests for themselves," sea otter pups are well-groomed because a dirty coat won't floatþputting a new skin on an old topic. (Picture book/nonfiction. 3-8)