Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Animals

How do reptiles keep warm? What happens to a snake's skin as the snake grows? What are crocodile eggs like? This book is about reptiles: what they do, how they behave and how these characteristics are different from other groups of animals. Beautifully illustrated with colourful photographs, the ...

Look behind the microscope, or telescope, with scientists as they learn more about the world around us and beyond. From invisible crustaceans and flying frogs, to giant tsunamis on Mars, find out about new and exciting discoveries made by scientists in the past decade. Imagine a sneezing monkey, ...

Explains the process and materials that ants use to build anthills. This book's colourful photos, clear text, and "A Closer Look" feature highlight the engineering that makes this structure such a marvel and helps ants survive in the wild.

Discover facts about escaping penguins, farting zebras, leaping dolphins, snorting elephants, dancing bears and more, all connected in weird and wonderful ways. Did you know that beavers have orange teeth? Or that some monkeys floss their teeth using bird feathers? Or that one species of bird can...

"From small sparrows to large ostriches, birds come in all sizes. Most birds fly, but some run, swim or swoop. Find out more inside about their diets, life cycles and homes." -- back cover

Pull back the curtain on the wide, wide world of mammals! Organized by animal science topics such as anatomy, life cycle and methods of defence, Mammals lets young readers and browsers discover these hairy animals through full-colour photos and concise, factual text.

A brilliant quiz book for clever kids - put your animal knowledge to the test and boggle your family and friends with your brainpower! Can you spot the difference between an ostrich and an emu, and a leopard and an ocelot? You can! Then what are you waiting for? Take on this brain-busting nature ...

A reindeer treks a continent under unimaginable weather extremes. One tiny bird flies non-stop for nine days, while another flies from the North to South Pole (and back!) every year. A whale swims through the oceans of a hemisphere. "Animal Migrations: Flying, Walking, Swimming" offers a fascinat...

From the vocal copycat antics of lyrebirds to ant-mimicking spiders, find out all about Australia's trickiest creatures and cleverest actors in this engaging junior non-fiction title.