Camels

December 15, 2012
Grades 4-6 Like any good animal series, these titles in the Living Wild series impart all the right information for school reports: physical description, habitat, life cycle, age range, care for the young, position upon the food chain, adaptations, and conservation efforts. The books go beyond these basics in how they consider the animals' places in history and culture. Camels describes how these animals have remained a part of desert peoples' cultures for thousands of years as well as how one million feral dromedaries came to live and still exist in the deserts of central Australia. Sidebar facts, a world map, a glossary, and a bibliography add to the research value, while gorgeous color photographs, many full-page, and a concluding folktale will lure browsers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)