Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals by Collard, Sneed B.

Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals

North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests....
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Author: Sneed B. Collard
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Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals by Collard, Sneed B.

Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals

$47.43

Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals

$47.43
Author: Sneed B. Collard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders--or is that evolution in another guise?



Author: Sneed B. Collard
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 10.10h x 8.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780884484967
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 189724 / Catching Air: Making the Leap with Gliding Animals


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 02/06/2017
Booklist 04/15/2017 pg. 40
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2017 pg. 178 - Recommended, Satisfactory

About the Author
Collard, Sneed B.: - Science writer Sneed B. Collard III (Missoula, MT; www.sneedbcollardiii.com) is the author of more than 80 children's books, including One Iguana, Two Iguanasand Catching Air. He has received the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work, and his books are featured regularly in the Junior Library Guild, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book lists, and other best-of lists.

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