Part of Series
From prickly porcupines to slippery seals, animals are wonderfully diverse. Translated into North American Spanish, this popular zoology series for elementary students studies mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and invertebrates from around the world. Beautiful photos pair with factual life science text to explore the featured creature's appearance, habitat, behaviors, and life cycle. Each title also includes a related folktale or myth for cross-curricular learning. Despite its fierce-looking quills and high-pitched chirps and squeaks, the North American porcupine is a shy, gentle rodent. This zoology title for children, filled with beautiful photos and factual life science text, examines the mammal's anatomy, feeding habits, life cycle, and porcupette care. Its forest habitat is described, too. A folktale from the Ojibwe people explains how the porcupine got its quills. Part of Creative Education's popular Planeta animal series, this North American Spanish translation supports elementary-aged readers with captions, on-page definitions, and an index.
Author
Hello. I’m Christopher Bahn, a writer and editor from Minneapolis. My latest project is 11 new books for young readers from the publisher Creative Company. The six-book Enduring Mysteries series for ages 11 and up takes a look at the science and culture behind Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and other spooky topics. My five books in the Amazing Animals series for elementary-aged readers cover cuddly critters like otters, seals, and … well, scorpions aren’t cuddly, but they’re pretty interesting anyway! My features, reviews, interviews, album liner notes, and other writing have appeared in The A.V. Club, MSNBC.com, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Clarkesworld, and elsewhere. I was also the lead editor for the A.V. Club‘s Minneapolis-St. Paul edition from 2004 to 2010, and an associate editor at The Rake and the Minnesota editions of Citysearch and Sidewalk.
