Describes the different ways various animals care for their young, discussing how they feed them, provide shelter for them, protect them from predators, and teach them the skills they need to one day survive on their own.

"Differentiated reader that explains how different animal babies live and grow up, with two levels of readability: emergent reader and fluent reader"--Provided by publisher.

"It's wild out there for baby animals, but nature's superdads can handle it all. A great horned owl dad brings home tasty prey to his nest, while a sandgrouse dad carries precious water on his feathers across the desert for his thirsty chicks. Wolf dads love a game of tug-of-war with their rambunctious pups, glass frog dads protect their eggs from predators with powerful kicks, and kiwi dads sit on their eggs for eighty days, keeping them safe and...

"An astonishing safari of infant animals, from baby kangaroos to flamingos to squid, and the essential role they play in Earth's ecosystems"--

Based on real events that occurred in Kenya when a baby hippo was left orphaned after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Owen's loss of his mother is treated carefully, and when he finds his new mother, a turtle named McZee, the story has a happy ending.

Little ones adore being independent and trying new things. But they also need Mom and Dads reassurance and snuggles. With her spare, lyrical text, Meg Fleming captures the exuberance, the affection, and the tender push-and-pull of life with a child. And illustrator Sarah Jane Wrights evocative illustrations infuse the story with generous helpings of warmth and love.

Introduces an array of young animals of North America, including loons, polar bears, seals, and caribou, as they learn to survive in their worlds with the help of their families and natural instincts.

Photographs and simple text reveal the true story of a fawn which, abandoned by her mother and brought to live on a farm, is raised by Kate, a Great Dane.

"A masterful synthesis of how it came to be that today men are taking care of very young babies given that this is unprecedented in the history of mammals, apes, and humans"-- "A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped...