This is a seemingly sweet book about baby animals and their mothers. But each of the animals is listed as endangered, and some are already extinct in the wild. The gentle verses describe the habits of these creatures, while information boxes point out the bleak facts of their near extinction. Ages 4+
Analysis
juvenile Nonfiction
Notes
For each of ten endangered species, provides a short poem as well as the habitat, size, young, food, threats, and number left