Lifetime

By Lola M. Schaefer, Christopher Silas Neal (illustrator),

Book cover of Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives

Book description

In one lifetime, a caribou will shed 10 sets of antlers, a woodpecker will drill 30 roosting holes, a giraffe will wear 200 spots, a seahorse will birth 1,000 babies. Count each one and many more while learning about the wondrous things that can happen in just one lifetime. This…

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1 author picked Lifetime as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There’s plenty to count on the pages, but this book soars by stressing the repetition of events in the lifetimes of spiders, snakes, kangaroos, and other animals. The word “amazing” in the title sets a bar that’s met as we learn that a woodpecker will drill thirty holes in trees. A giraffe will sport 200 spots. And there’s much more for eager readers to count.

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