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CBC Showcase: Nonfiction Picture Books

Learn how 14 mammals are born, eat, sleep, learn, and mature. With stunning full-color and black-and-white illustrations and concise information, this book helps children develop a keen sense of what makes mammals special.

cover If My Mom Were A Platypus
Mammal Babies and Their Mothers

by Dia L. Michels, illustrated by Andrew Barthelmes

Middle grade students learn how 14 mammals are born, eat, sleep, learn, and mature. The fascinating facts depict how mammal infants begin life dependent on their mothers and grow to be self-sufficient adults. The book is organized by describing 13 different animals, with sections on each covering the topics: birth, growth, knowledge, and eating. All stories are told from the baby mammal's point of view. The 14th and last of the species presented is a human infant, with amazing similarities to the stories of the other 13. With stunning full-color and black-and-white illustrations and concise information, this book helps children develop a keen sense of what makes mammals special.


Ages 8-12
ISBN: 1-930775-19-9
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Platypus Media

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