What Is a Mammal?

The Science of Living Things series helps children understand that they are as connected to trees, rocks, and weather as the animals that live outdoors This important series helps define the basic concept of life and investigates the incredible world of living things. Each book explores a basic scientific concept or animal using:

-- easy-to-understand text

-- clearly labeled diagrams

-- exciting, full-color photographs

What is a Mammal? teaches the basic rules as well as the exceptions that help children understand differences between mammals and other living things. Amazing full-color photographs feature a large variety of mammals including apes, elephants, rodents, and bats and help to identify the many types of mammals including:

-- those that lay eggs

-- mammals with a pouch

-- placental mammals, such as humans