Baby Animals

by Judy Tatchell, Phillip Clarke

Provides information on tiger cubs, ducklings, joeys, tadpoles, elephant calves, and baby penguins and rabbits.

Genres: Animals, Picture Books, Science, Childrens

16 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[Alex ☻ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the well placed pop ups, super cute

[Mina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This lift the flap book explores baby animals interacting with each other and their parents with fantastic illustrations to boot. These animals include rabbits, tigers, penguins, ducks, kangaroos, frogs and elephants. Children get to learn more about what the baby animal names are, what their habitats are and look like as well as touching on some of their behaviours.

This book would be an excellent resource for introducing the topic of life cycles in Science and exploring different landscapes and weather types within Science and Geography. There could be a great link with Literacy as children are simultaneously building on their vocabulary.

I would recommend this book as a circle time resource where you can interact and ask the children questions as you read. It could also work well if you are working on a one to one basis with a child to build on their comprehension and inference skills away from the rest of the class, should they need additional support in Literacy.

The appropriate age range for this text would be from nursery to Year 1.

[Eva-Marie Nevarez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much like any other Usborne lift-the-flap book that we've found, this is full of information that any kid will love to learn and then teach others. This features baby animals, what they're called, what they eat, how they're carried/get around, where they live, etc.
Bunnies, cubs, ducklings, tadpoles, there are a number of baby animals featured here. The illustrations could have been more fun but the lift-the-flap makes up for this with any young reader I think.