Dash! Hide! Splash! Ride! Exuberant text celebrates all the different ways animals play, from rhinos taking mud baths and parrots somersaulting through the air to kangaroos boxing and dolphins diving through the surf. Additional text explains how playing benefits animals. Fascinating back matter gives more information about the featured animals in the book and encourages readers to make time to play every day!

A scientist examines the origins and evolutionary significance of play in humans and animals.

Enjoy reading this rhythmically rhyming book filled with various animals at play, second in the series. You'll see games like dodgeball, tag, and pick up sticks.

Why do animals play? With thoughtful text and sweetly realistic watercolor art, author and illustrator Lita Judge explores the importance of play in the animal kingdom. She shows how play teaches animals to defend themselves and survive in the wild. More adorably, Judge highlights how animals make friends—and also forgive. Grounded in detailed research, Play in the Wild is sure to captivate young readers while giving them an informative peek into the world around them.

Chess Coach Anthea Carson and Life Master Brian Wall, authors of How to Play Chess Like an Animal share their passion for making chess fun while promoting the logic skills of chess. The fanciful illustrations excite the mind¿s creative side and the humor found within is irresistible. This beautiful crossover book does not require you to be ¿left brained¿ in order to enjoy and utilize it. How to Play Chess Like an Animal honors the past and tradition, but the zany and original presentation of strategy encourages bold and original risk taking. The fun aspect of this one-of-a-kind book is that the openings, moves and defenses are described in terms of the animal they resemble! How to Play Chess Like an Animal excites the senses as well as the intellect; it is not an ordinary chess book! The chess analysis is done in a story telling format, which makes this chess book so unique.

Animal Play, first published in 1998, is an interdisciplinary study of play in animals and humans.

What do children love more than seeing animals? Imitating animals! The Who's That series are sturdy board books that are perfect vehicles for interactive animal fun, as each volume focuses on a different aspect of animal behavior that can be easily acted out, like playing, eating, moving and making noises. Splashing ducklings, bounding puppies and leaping lambs are just a few of the adorable baby animals featured in this book about everyone's favorite time: playtime. The cheerful pictures and inviting language ignite little ones' imaginations as well as bolster early reading skills. Who says playtime can't be educational, too?