This book explores the fascinating lives of snakes, describing the way these reptiles kill prey, defend themselves against enemies, produce young, and survive the cold of winter. The full-color photographs show snakes from many regions, including dangerous poisonous species as well as harmless common snakes that share their world with humans.

Provides an introduction to rattlesnakes, their habits, and more in terms everyone can understand. Individual species accounts for 31 species and subspecies of rattlesnakes. 100 full-color photographs, range maps.

A snake hatches from one of its mother's eggs, then lives in forests and fields by devouring rodents and other small creatures.

Reference guide to caring for the special needs of snakes, with information on enclosures, what to put in the cage, feeding requirements, how to monitor health, and how to handle your snake.

A field guide introducing thirty species of snakes, salamanders, and lizards.

Offers a variety of tips, facts, and findings about snakes and lizards, and provides practical advice for reptile owners on pet health, housing, food, and other topics.

Snakes in space? Yes, indeed. The colorful crew explores stars and planets on a fabuloussss adventure with accessible, fun, sibilant text.

Mirabel, a goose, and her friend, Maxie, a frog, get a scare one day when a king cobra escapes from the zoo.

What happens when the book gets it wrong? Max is not a cat-- Max is a dog! But much to his dismay, this book keeps instructing readers to "see the cat." How can Max get through to the book that he is a dog? In a trio of stories for beginning readers, author David LaRochelle introduces the excitable Max, who lets the book know in irresistibly emphatic dialogue that the text is not to his liking. Illustrator Mike Wohnoutka hilariously depicts the pup's...

"Sam Miracle's life is made up of dreams, dreams where he's a courageous, legendary hero instead of a foster kid with two bad arms that can barely move. Sometimes these dreams feel so real, they seem like forgotten memories. And sometimes they make him believe that his arms might come alive again. But Sam is about to discover that the world he knows and the world he imagines are separated by only one thing: time. And that separation is only an illusion"--Amazon.com....