Discusses the order of the animal kingdom known as scorpions and describes the members of fourteen different species that are found in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Israel.
Discusses the order of the animal kingdom known as Xenarthra and describes fifteen different species, including the giant anteater, three-toed sloth, hairy armadillo, and pink fairy armadillo.
Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of a variety of North American spiders, including spiders in fields, gardens, around the house, underground, and in the water.
Describes the common characteristics of the many different-looking fish in the gasterosteiformes order, which includes sea horses, sticklebacks, and other "bony-bellies".
An introduction to true bugs, a taxonomic order of insects, that includes descriptions of fourteen species and recommendations for finding, identifying, and observing them.
Describes the traits and classification of the aquatic mammals called coleoids, a subgroup of the cephalopods, with an emphasis on different kinds of octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish.
Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of fourteen species of diprotodonts, a primarily herbivorous order of marsupials, including possums, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, and wombats.
An introduction to flies, a taxonomic order of insects, that includes descriptions of fourteen species and recommendations for finding, identifying, and observing them.
An introduction to beetles, the largest taxonomic order of insects, that includes descriptions of fourteen species and recommendations for finding, identifying, and observing them.