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Catching Air
Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals
Series: How Nature Works
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Ideal for readers interested in animal adaptations and natural history, particularly children and young adults who appreciate engaging educational content with striking visuals.
*NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book* *Junior Library Guild Selection 2017* Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
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North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests.
Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals.
Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders—or is that evolution in another guise?
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"This informative book explores questions such as what adaptations in the animals’ bodies enable them to glide, why gliders throughout the world are forest dwellers, and how gliding helps them to survive... A respected science writer, Collard offers a well-researched, well-focused, and beautifully illustrated presentation of a topic seldom covered in children’s books." — Carolyn Phelan, Booklist
"An intriguing look at animal adaptation." — Publishers Weekly
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ISBN: 9780884488835
Publisher: Tilbury House,U.S.
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 May 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Tilbury House,U.S.
Illustration: color photography
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 206.0mm
Height: 257.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 48
About the Author
Science writer Sneed B. Collard III (Missoula, MT; www.sneedbcollardiii.com) is the author of more than 80 children’s books, including One Iguana, Two Iguanasand Catching Air. He has received the Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work, and his books are featured regularly in the Junior Library Guild, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book lists, and other best-of lists.
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