All over the world, in all kinds of habitats, mothers bring forth new life. All mammal babies need their mothers -- they need to be nurtured and nourished long enough to learn how to survive on their own. All mammal mothers feed, protect, and teach their young -- tasks that often challenge their own needs for survival. All mammal babies must learn how to feed and protect themselves. This fascinating introduction to the world of mammals reveals how fourteen mammal babies travel the path from helpless infants to self-sufficient adults.

Explores the birth, maternal relationship, and growth of such mammals as African elephants, Pacific gray whales, hooded seals, polar bears, orangutans, and humans.

This a beautiful Hebrew edition of If My Mom Were a Platypus. All mammal mothers feed, protect and teach their young--tasks that often challenge their own needs for survival. All mammal babies must learn how to feed and protect themselves. This book is a fascinating introduction to the world of mammals reveals how fourteen mammal babies travel the path from helpless infants to self-sufficient adults.

Through an informative examination of fourteen mammal animals, including the elephant and platypus, young readers can learn how mammal mothers protect, feed, and raise their young in their natural habitats during their offspring's most vulnerable period in life. Simultaneous.

Platypus decides it's the perfect day to go collecting. He finds a big rock, an old shoe and a broken umbrella, but none of these are quite what he's looking for. Then he finds a curly shell - just right But it keeps going missing from his special box. The 'thief' turns out to be a little hermit crab living inside the shell so Platypus takes it back to the sea where it belongs. Luckily there are plenty of unoccupied shells for Platypus to collect - and keep.