Young animal lovers can enjoy pressing-out and creating these cool paper pets, including cats, dogs, and many more. Just like a real pet, they each have their own character and style! Perfect for playtime and sharing, kids can start a collection or trade pets with friends.

This exciting book shows you how to fold realistic models of your favorite pets, zoo animals and other wildlife! Master origami designer Muneji Fuchimoto's clear instructions show you how to fold 30 amazing animal and insect models, including the following: Five different popular dog breeds--complete with stylish foldable outfits A cute little paper cat Less conventional pet models, including a miniature pig, mouse and turtle Safari wildlife, including an elephant with tusks, a lion with a mane and a chimpanzee with a contrasting posterior A brown bear with a freshly-caught salmon in its mouth--folded from a single sheet of paper! And so much more! These models are intermediate-level origami projects, and require some prior folding knowledge for the best experience.

Create all the pets you have ever wanted with these wonderful projects. Enjoy 250 sheets of specially designed printed paper and a 64-page instruction book that guides you step by step through 15 wonderful animal paper projects, from a delightful dachshund to a cuddly hamster, and even a perfect Persian cat. These friendly animals can be used as lovely gifts to give to friends or as unique decorations to leave throughout the house! Origami is also known to help encourage connectedness, awareness and improved physical and emotional health. Not only that, what could possibly bring you more inner peace than a selection of cute and cuddly pets?

Kids can learn the art of paper folding with Origami Pets. They will start by practicing basic origami folds. Then they can make a cute cat, a perky puppy, and more. The crafts in this book are easy and super fun! Each project includes colorful photos and step-by-step instructions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

"At the pet show, there are so many different types of pets. With dogs and cats, horses and chickens, hamsters and chinchillas--and many, many more--this book celebrates animal companions of all shapes and sizes"--

Punch out, fold up, and make 3D pooch storytelling come to life! Paper Pups 2 from PaperMade adds more pups, stories and scenes to the first breakout hit Paper Pups (powerHouse Books, 2013) based on the popular paper toy book series. Featuring eight new Pups, scenery and more stories--each character and scene is pre-cut and pre-scored so they simply punch out, fold up, and turn into adorable 3D objects, with easy instructions right on the page. Paper Pups 2 is designed to work on its own or in combination with Paper Pups, allowing for more imagination, more story time and more trouble the Pups can get into together! All PaperMade books masterfully combine paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no glue, tape or tools are ever needed! Paper Pups 2 make the best companions for anyone age 7 to 101--and come with 3 unique settings and "story starters" to make paper stories come to life in 3D.

Entertaining and informative, Pets in America is a portrait of Americans' relationships with the cats, dogs, birds, fishes, rodents, and other animals we call our own. More than 60 percent of U.S. households have pets, and America grows more pet-friendly every day. But as Katherine C. Grier demonstrates, the ways we talk about and treat our pets--as companions, as children, and as objects of beauty, status, or pleasure--have their origins long ago. Grier begins with a natural history of animals as pets, then discusses the changing role of pets in family life, new standards of animal welfare, the problems presented by borderline cases such as livestock pets, and the marketing of both animals and pet products. She focuses particularly on the period between 1840 and 1940, when the emotional, behavioral, and commercial characteristics of contemporary pet keeping were established. The story is filled with the warmth and humor of anecdotes from period diaries, letters, catalogs, and newspapers. Filled with illustrations reflecting the whimsy, the devotion, and the commerce that have shaped centuries of American pet keeping, Pets in America ultimately shows how the history of pets has evolved alongside changing ideas about human nature, child development, and community life. This book accompanies a museum exhibit, "Pets in America," which opens at the McKissick Museum in Columbia, South Carolina, in December 2005 and will travel to five other cities from May 2006 through May 2008.