The Nature Kid's Guide to Flying Squirrels: A Level 2 Reader for Curious Young Kids Who Love Flying Squirrels! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798898181628)

If your child thinks squirrels are just backyard animals, this book is about to change everything. Flying squirrels glow bright pink under UV light, a discovery that shocked the science world in 2019 and that nobody has fully explained yet. Their eyes are so enormous they cannot move inside their heads. The woolly flying squirrel was thought to be extinct until someone found one alive in a Pakistani mountain range in 1994. Up to 50 southern flying squirrels pile into a single nest to survive the winter. The biggest species stretches over three feet long and the smallest weighs less than a deck of cards. Every page delivers something your child will want to run and share.

"The Nature Kid's Guide to Flying Squirrels" is written for curious kids ages 7-12 who want to know the real story behind one of nature's most secretive and surprising animals. How does a thin flap of skin turn a squirrel into a precision glider that can steer, brake, and land softly on a tree trunk in total darkness? Why did scientists shining a UV lamp on a flying squirrel shock the entire science world? What makes one species of flying squirrel live higher than most airplanes fly? Your child will find out, and they will never look at a tree the same way again.

Short sentences and surprising facts build reading confidence while keeping even older kids hooked from first page to last. Chapters cover more than a dozen species from around the world, from tiny Japanese dwarf flying squirrels to crimson giants soaring through the forests of Asia.

A book for every kid who watches squirrels in the backyard and never imagined one could sail silently over their head.

There are flying squirrels gliding through dark forests on nearly every continent right now, pink and silent and completely invisible to anyone without a UV lamp. That is the kind of wonder that sticks.

Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child is next!