Shark or Dolphin?: How Do You Know?

by Melissa Stewart

Overview

How can you tell a shark from a dolphin? What is the difference? Find all the tips and hints you need to tell these two animals apart!

Trained as both a scientist and journalist, Melissa Stewart is the award-winning author of more than 100 books for young readers. While gathering information for her books, Melissa has explored tropical forests in Costa Rica, gone on safari in Kenya and Tanzania, and swum with sea lions in the Galápagos Islands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598452396
Publisher:	Enslow Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	01/16/2011
Series:	Which Animal Is Which? Series
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	422,800
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.25(d)
Lexile:	AD440L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Award-winning author Melissa Stewart has written more than 50 science books for kids (and edited more than 200)! Her background in biology and journalism makes her perfect for bringing science to kids.

Table of Contents

Words to Know 3

Do You Know? 4

Fish or Mammal? 6

Scales or Skin? 8

Tail or Fluke? 10

Gills or Lungs? 12

Pup or Calf? 14

Smell or Sound? 16

Now Do You Know? 18

What a Surprise! 20

Learn More

Books 22

Web Sites 23

Index 24

Editorial Reviews

Which Animal Is Which? series. This clever compare-and-contrast approach makes differences between often-confused creatures easy to understand and remember. For each spread, large-print text introduces a point of comparison ("Fish or Mammal?" "Scales or Skin?"); answers appear alongside vibrant captioned photos of the animals. Helpful color-coded summaries and "What a Surprise!" facts are appended. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind., The Horn Book Guide Fall 2011

From the Publisher

Gr 2–3—Though not particularly helpful for quick identification—"Most butterflies fly during the day," while "Most moths fly at night," is a characteristic distinction—these dual profiles of common creatures should give budding naturalists an increased understanding of how scientists use appearance and behavior to classify sometimes-similar living things, along with introducing important terms like "cephalothorax" and "chrysalis." Spreads feature sharply detailed paired photographs of identified specimens seen from the same angle and at roughly equal size (i.e., not always to scale), with accompanying explanatory statements. The highlighted differences are then recapped on a single spread, and every book closes with a salient and potentially surprising new fact about each type of animal. Consider these books to lay groundwork for nature expeditions and for later studies of taxonomy.

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