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Extreme Animals
The Toughest Creatures on Earth
By Davies, Nicola
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76363-067-6
- Publisher
- Candlewick
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2006
Gr 4-6 We humans are such a bunch of wimps!]we cant live without food, or water, and just a few minutes without air is enough to finish us off. Luckily, not all life is so fragile. So begins Daviess breezy, engaging, and thoroughly informative natural history of some of the most tenacious survivors on the planet. There is life everywhere on Ea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
This entertaining book uses both wonder and humor to explore the adaptations of some remarkable organisms that function perfectly normally under temperatures and pressures that would wipe out humans in seconds. What makes this book a standout is that it manages to integrate very funny humor, gross guts-and-gore, and riveting scientific information. Fans of the intense will relish the descriptions of the effects of extreme environmental...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
