A strange place to call home :
Material type: TextPublication details: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2012Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN: 9781452101200; 1452101205Subject(s): Animals -- Habitations -- Poetry | Animals -- PoetryDDC classification: JN 571.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Main Library Junior Nonfiction (JN) | JN 571.1 .S617 2012 | Available | 20218 |
Think cold: Humboldt penguins -- Think heat: snow monkeys -- Dry as dust: spadefoot toads -- Frozen solid: ice worms -- Out of sight: blind cave fish -- Salt of the earth: flamingos -- Down in the depths: tube worms -- Top of the world: mountain goats -- On the rocks: limpets -- Wall of sand: camels -- A fish in the air: mudskippers -- A bird in the water: dippers -- Well-oiled: petroleum flies -- City living: urban foxes.
Poems about fourteen animals who defy the odds by thriving in Earth's most dangerous places where they live.