Baby Panda Chews Bamboo

by Ben Richmond

Overview

In the mountains of China a baby panda is born. Find out how the tiny cub grows! 

With stunning photography, this nonfiction picture book from the American Museum of Natural History follows a baby panda from birth through adulthood. Though he starts out blind and helpless, cradled against mom in the den, the adorable cub soon changes. His fur fills in, and he learns to swim and climb—and tastes bamboo for the first time! Fun to read and look at, Baby Panda Chews Bamboo will enchant young animal lovers.

This book is a continuation of our AMNH series, which includes Baby Penguin’s First Waddles, Wolf Pups Join the Pack, and Baby Dolphin’s First Swim.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454927402
Publisher:	Union Square Kids
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Series:	First Discoveries
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	582,651
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 9 Years

About the Author

The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is one of the largest and most respected museums in the world, with an annual attendance of 5 million. Since the Museum was founded in 1869, its collections have grown to include more than 34 million specimens and artifacts relating to the natural world and human cultures. The Museum showcases its collections in the exhibit halls, and, behind the scenes, approximately 200 scientists carry out cutting-edge research. Plan a trip to the Museum, home of the world’s largest collection of dinosaur fossils, or visit online at amnh.org.

Editorial Reviews

2018-02-04
A panda cub's childhood documented with photographs and a simple text.This latest addition to the First Discoveries series from the American Museum of Natural History offers irresistible images of young panda cubs, from the helpless, pinkish newborn to independence a few months after the first birthday. Like earlier series titles about penguins, wolves, and dolphins, this is essentially an album of photographs culled from varied sources and strung together in a chronological text that follows the animal as it grows up. Each double-page spread has one or several photographs, accompanied by a paragraph or two of relatively simple text describing the cub's behavior—in particular, its feeding habits. Readers and listeners will come away with important information about pandas, but it is the close-up photographs that steal the show. Although the animals pictured are likely different, they look alike; readers will probably assume they are following a single animal's journey, especially since information about the images is limited to a list of credits on the copyright page. The book concludes with a message from "the expert," Angelo Soto-Centeno, a bat specialist at the museum.An obvious choice for animal-focused storytimes, but it's no match for the baby animal titles by wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas, which do focus on specific animals. (Informational picture book. 4-7)

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