The Nature Kid's Guide to Duck Billed Platypuses: A Level 2 Reader for Curious Young Kids Who Love Duck Billed Platypuses! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798898181338)

If your child loves animals that break all the rules, the platypus is the ultimate rule-breaker. It has a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver, feet like an otter, and venom in its ankles. It's one of only five mammals on Earth that lays eggs. When scientists first saw one, they checked it for stitches because they thought someone had sewn different animals together.

"The Nature Kid's Guide to Duck-Billed Platypus" is written for curious kids ages 7-12 who want to know how this bizarre creature actually works. How does its bill sense electricity from hidden prey? Why does milk ooze through the mother's skin instead of from nipples? How can a platypus eat a thousand worms in a single night with no teeth and no stomach? Your child will uncover the answers and want to share them at dinner.

Short sentences and jaw-dropping facts fill every page. Your child will learn about venomous ankle spurs, burrows that stretch sixty feet underground, and jellybean-sized babies called puggles that hatch from leathery eggs.

A book for kids who love animals that seem too weird to be real.

Platypuses hunt with their eyes shut, swim with their front legs instead of their back ones, and have been doing it all for over a hundred million years. Every page shows your child a creature that proves nature's wildest inventions are the ones that last the longest. That's the kind of reading that sticks.

Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child's next favorite animal is waiting.