Axolotl!: Fun Facts About the World's Coolest Salamander - An Info-Picturebook for Kids (Funny Fauna)

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It was designed from the beginning not only to incorporate more traditional elements such as illustrations, but also hypertext, and 3D- printable models of main robotic characters designed by Alex Jaeger, the art director of Transformers films. How do you go about making a picture book for children that touches on one of the most difficult and painful issues of our time—the climate crisis?

Combining the wit of the philosophical and irresistible axolotl with appealing aquatic art Bondestam’s empathetic story demonstrates the catastrophe facing the little axolotl, who is, possibly, the last of its kind and is facing real-world habitat destruction and extinction.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Mammals predominate with seven entries, including quokka, pangolin, and pygmy hippo, but there are also birds (saw-whet owl, fairy penguin), insects (rosy maple moth, bee fly), amphibians (axolotl, bare-hearted glass frog), reptiles (minute leaf chameleon), a cephalopod (hummingbird bobtail squid), a nudibranch (blue dragon), and a crustacean (pom-pom crab). The novel presents a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk vision of Earth where biological life has been wiped out, inhabited by robots and mechs, many of which are humans whose consciousness has been digitized in the wake of an extinction event.

And for those readers who are willing to branch out into fiction with lots of animals in the stories, direct them to the author's My Life Is a Zoo middle grade series.Not only does Keating provide each of the species' names, size, and diet, but she also identifies each one's habitat and predators as well as taking readers past the creatures' looks so readers realize that there is much more to an animal than meets the eye, and that cuteness is in the eye of the beholder. Within months, the father-daughter team graduated to a 120-gallon tank and were immersed in the intricacies of tank population management.

To make the issue of climate change more global to young readers, and to avoid singling out Mexico, Bondestam opted for a setting that is less Mexico-centric and more universal. The informational nature of this book allows readers to find the animals they want to read about and read just those sections without being lost.Very extensive table of contents which seems to cover everything we will need to know to be successful. From award-winning Nordic author and illustrator Linda Bondestam comes a new kind of climate change story, narrated by an adorable axolotl who is—possibly—the last of its kind.

While most of the species covered are European, it does mention species in other parts of the world when talking about evolution and when making species comparisons. Related species are noted and sometimes pictured, and there are images and brief descriptions of more “weird animals” at the end of each book. If not, you are about to be enchanted by these charming creatures, with their adorable baby faces and extraordinary ability to regenerate limbs and organs. If you are unhappy with a product or dissatisfied within 14 days of your purchase we would be happy to give you a refund.

The book shows Linda Bondestam’s mastery by the use and enrichment of the picture book’s entire range. For everyone who has had a sloth phase, an alpaca phase, a llama phase, or any other fascination with a certain kind of animal, welcome to your newest obsession: axolotls! Handbook of Salamanders: the Salamanders of the United States, of Canada and of Mexico", 1943, 1994, Cornell University Press.