Animals and Their Mates: How Animals Attract, Fight for and Protect Each Other

by Pamela Hickman, Pat Stephens (Illustrator)

Overview

Male warblers grow colorful feathers during the spring mating season. Male moose compete for a female by head-butting each other with their antlers. Female ospreys are fed and protected by their mates while they hatch their eggs. Whether it's to attract, fight for or protect a mate, animals interact in some remarkable ways. Using concise language and realistic illustrations, this title in the Animal Behavior series takes a resourceful approach to exploring animal life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781553375463
Publisher:	Kids Can Press
Publication date:	08/28/2004
Series:	Animal Behavior Series
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	1120L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Pamela is an award-winning author of over 35 non-fiction nature books for children, including The Kids Canadian Nature Series, First Look at Nature Series, Animal Senses and Animals Hibernating. She lives in Canning, Nova Scotia.

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.

Editorial Reviews

This entry in a long-running series on animal behavior (Animals and Their Young, 2003; Animals Eating, 2001, etc.) suffers more from lack of organization than does its predecessors, but still offers plenty of fascinating facts. The subtitle promises more than readers get-most of the work covers the varied ways animals attract mates, from saliva balls to extra-long canine teeth. The whens and wheres of animal mating are covered pretty thoroughly, also, though never the hows-and the illustrations shy away from it, too. Animals protecting each other? Not in this. Stephen's watercolor illustrations are consistently accurate and detailed. Unfortunately the amazing diversity of animal behavior works against any sort of storyline or conclusion here. Information comes in sound bites, and the effort suffers from it. Good, maybe the best available on the subject, but not great. (Nonfiction. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews