Age
5-8
Grade
K-3
Sneed B. Collard III, Anik Scannell McGrory
Animals Asleep
Hardcover
(Houghton Mifflin Books for Children March 23, 2004)
The average human sleeps a total of twenty-four years over a lifetime. That’s a lot of naps! Yet people aren’t the only ones who enjoy a good rest; if you look around, you’ll find that all animals have a biological need for sleep. But some animals snooze in ways that we would find startlingif not absolutely impossible. A sooty tern, an island bird, takes a nap in midair as it slowly flaps its wings. A fruit bat gets forty winks while hanging upside down from a tree branch. A bottlenose dolphin can put half of its brain to sleep while it continues to swim. What other remarkable methods of sleep exist?
- ISBN
- 0618276971 /
- Pages
- 32
- Weight
- 1.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 0.1
in.