Those Lively Lizards

by Marta Magellan, Steve Weaver (Illustrator), James Gersing (Photographer)

Overview

Learn all about lizards. They live all over the world and come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. You'll find out if a lizard can change colors to match its surroundings, if a lizards tail can really grow back, which lizard runs on water, whether boy and girl lizards look the same, why lizards stick out their tongues, and if they are endangered.

Activities include a lizards crossword puzzle and a lizard puppet that sticks out his dewlap. (Whats a dewlap? you'll find out!)

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561644278
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Series:	Those Amazing Animals
Pages:	58
Product dimensions:	7.13(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.19(d)
Age Range:	5 - 9 Years

About the Author

Marta Elizabeth Magellan is a nature lover who has made putting books in children's hands one of her favorite causes. An avid admirer of wildlife, she travels yearly to wildernesses all over the North and South American continent. She has written nonfiction books for children about animals, readers for the educational market, magazine articles for both children and adults, poetry and essays. She is the founder of the Kids' Choice Story Contest at Miami Dade College/ Kendall Campus, in which once a year college students write stories judged by children. She taught English, Creative Writing, and Survey of Children's Literature at Miami Dade College where she was a full professor.