A beautifully illustrated book for children about the various social structures across the animal kingdom. In the animal kingdom, just like the human one, families come in all shapes and sizes. Meet some very different animal families and discover who does what. Throughout the pages of this beautifully illustrated book, you'll begin to see animals in a whole new light. Discover who's the boss, who takes care of the children, and who's in charge of getting dinner. Meet a different animal family on every page, learn about what it's like to live in the group, how they communicate with one another, and the names for the group, males, females, and young. From elephants and chimpanzees to wolves and bison-is there an animal family like your human family? And if you were an animal, which family would you choose?

This book will stimulate preschoolers through third graders in their quest to know more about the various kinds of animals and their family in a repetitive learning style, which will allow the child to learn and retain more about the animals and their families. Soon the child will be rhyming words and sentences, such as "My father is a..." "My mother is a..." "I am a baby..." This will assist the learners to inquire about the names of other animals and their families and members in a knowledgeable way.

With beautiful photography and extraordinary wildlife sequences, this heartwarming book shows children that animals have family relationships, too. Pictures of human families are paired with animal clans to show charming similarities. Full color.

A lonely hunter living in the wilderness beside the sea gains a family made up of a mermaid, a bear, a lynx, and a boy.

Text and pictures present families of different kinds of animals doing their ordinary activities.