Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Discusses mythical beasts such as Bigfoot, dragons, and the Minotaur as well as real-life dangerous animals like tigers, polar bears, and snakes.

Describes a dozen fierce animals, including lions, grizzly bears, snakes, and killer whales.

Some snakes are more dangerous than others. Those that have venom, or poison, can kill their prey with just one bite! Now even the youngest readers can join Sibert Medal-winning photographer and biologist Nic Bishop as he takes a closer look at the world's most amazing animals! In this book, Nic introduces fun facts about snakes and their bodies, habits, and life cycle. This adaptation of the award-winning picture book has accessible Level 2 text...

This compelling collection of essays explores situations where wild animals made humans their prey -- from a sow grizzly defending her cubs to an African lion turning on a hunter and savagely attacking him. Color insert.

Illustrations and simple text introduce young readers to the world's most dangerous animals, including information on hunters, defenders, poisonous insects, and disease-ridden rodents.

Introduces ten animals and ranks them according to their overall scores in the categories of shape, danger, attack, lethal, and prey.

Provides a scientific and peaceful view of animals traditionally viewed as frightening, such as bats and snakes.

"Did you know that the blue dragon sea slug is the length of a paperclip but can store deadly jellyfish venom in its body for use against predators? Or that the golden poison dart frog is only an inch long, but its skin holds enough poison to kill ten people? These tiny terrors don't have to be big to be deadly!"--

Would you swim with alligators or piranha? Would you fight a bear or a giant squid? These diabolical situations and more will have you running for cover as you plunge into a series of fiendish questions and answers. Brilliant author, Helen Greathead, has plucked some sticky situations (and some sharp spiny ones, too!) from the world of wildlife and mashed them up into brain-tastic challenges.