What fun children have looking at these precious animal babies in their natural habitats around the world. The baby animals featured in this nonfiction book from Our Amazing World Series, Advanced, appear with their mothers keeping a watchful eye on them. The narrative fosters fluency in early readers, promoting independent reading. Each crystal-clear snapshot is accompanied by fun facts, such as the information that a baby kangaroo is as small as a grain of rice when born, to engage children in lively discussions.

The world’s rivers are home to some incredible animals. Did you know a beaver’s teeth never stop growing or that a manatee lives part of its life in salt water and part in fresh water? The nonfiction series, Our Amazing World Series, Advanced, includes books that encourage children to develop a love for nonfiction through fun facts that accompany each exquisite photo. This is an excellent book for advanced early readers to practice their phonics skills. They learn to combine words they know, such as cat and fish to make catfish and king and fisher to make kingfisher.