During the cold winter months, some animals go into a deep sleep called hibernation. Children will learn how an animal prepares for hibernation by stuffing itself with food so that it can survive in its dormant months and how animals prepare safe spots, like dens and burrows, so that they will be protected from predators as they sleep. Full color.

Why Do Animals Hibernate? is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.4 and Literacy.L.1.4. Large color photographs of dens, burrows, caves, and hibernating creatures along with narrative nonfiction text engagingly explain the world of hibernation. This book should be paired with “Good Night, Bears: Learning About Hibernation" (9781448887767) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

A bear cub and its family prepare to hibernate for the winter.

An introduction to the symbiotic relationships between various animals and plants includes profiles of such pairs as the plover bird and crocodile, and explains how one or both creatures benefit from their unusual partnerships.

For use in schools and libraries only. Looks at different animals that can swim, including both such aquatic creatures as the sea snake, the sea otter, and the American bullfrog, and land mammals including cats, tigers, pigs, elephants, horses, and snow monkeys.

How do frogs' bodies work? How do frogs behave, and why are they so important to our global ecosystem? All of these questions and more will be answered for budding herpetologists.

Everybody at the station! It’s time for winter hibernation! The sweet rhyming text of this book will calm even the most rambunctious kids and have them dreaming about what it’s like to hibernate. Young readers will be soothed and delighted as this story introduces them to different types of hibernating animals. The creatures on the train are preparing to snuggle into sleep, although with a passenger list that includes chipmunks, bears, snakes, hedgehogs, groundhogs, frogs, turtles, mice, bats, and more, there’s a lot of noise! Will the hibernating critters ever get to sleep? Take a trip to Hibernation Station to find out!