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Incredible story incredible pictures
My son wanted this book when he heard about it at a book fair at school.It is an incredible book.We love the way it is written from a little boys perspective (Xan was 10 when the book was written.) We recently had the opportunity to meet Carol Hopcraft and her husband when they came to our city.Dooms was not really a pet - he was free to go as he liked - but he did not ever leave them.He hunted - he was not feed like a pet once he reached maturity.Shallah, his successor, did the same.I am sure their current cheetah does it as well.The book is heartwarming and is written with the love and respect they had for Dooms.This is even more evident when they talk about their life with Dooms.They, more than most of us, understand that cheetahs are wild animals.This book is not meant to tote the benefits of have a pet cheetah - it is book about the bond between humans and animals.

Greatbookfor Kids or Adults
Why is it that "kids" books are sometimes so much more interesting than Adult books? As if upon reaching adulthood we some how lose interest in animals. Well, perhaps I'm a kid at heart. I found this a great book. This is a very touching story about a family's relationship with an adopted Cheetah Cub. The story is simple yet full of truth and insight. For me, it highlights the need to see animals as dignified creatures in need of our compassion and protection. This is a book that will hopefully send an important message to young readers.Regardless of whether Cheetahs shouldbe or should not be, or were or were not domesticated, this is a cool book with neat photos and I highly recommend it.

Dooms
Actually, cheetahs are not and have never been domesticated, and they are and always have been very difficult to breed in captivity. Although they do have a less aggressive attitude than typical wild cats, they are not pets and should not be. Utilizing cheetahs to hunt over the past few hundred years was not the result of captive bred cheetahs, they were wild caught. Fortunately, outside of wild orphaned cheetahs in Africa, they are not a cat that you can purchase as a pet, because they are not suited as a pet and are not domesticated. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - LionsTigersLeopardsetc.    2. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    3. Animals - Pets    4. Biography    5. Cheetah    6. Cheetahs as pets    7. Children's 4-8 - Animals/Pets    8. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    9. Children: Grades 1-2    10. Juvenile Fiction    11. Juvenile literature    12. Kenya    13. Animal stories    14. Animals    15. Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.   

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My 7 year old loved it
My 7 year-old loves non-fiction. He read this book in a few hours because he found it so interesting. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures    2. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    3. Children's 9-12 - Science    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 3-4    6. Glacial epoch    7. Glaciers    8. History - Prehistoric    9. Ice age    10. Juvenile Nonfiction    11. Juvenile literature    12. Paleontology    13. Juvenile Nonfiction / General   

Subjects:  1. Activity programs    2. Amphibians    3. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    4. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 4-6    6. Elementary    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Reptiles    9. Study and teaching (Middle sch    10. Study and teaching (Middle school)    11. Teaching Methods & Materials - General    12. Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    13. Reptiles & amphibians   

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Great book for teaching graphing
I am a student teacher in a 3rd grade classroom, and I have been using this to teach graphing.The students love it!I have taught three lessons over several days on pictographs, line graphs, and bar graphs.I have introduced each lesson with a few pages from this book. I highly recommend it!The photographs are wonderful, and it is a great example of using math in everyday life.

What a great book!
If you have a little one, work with children, or just love tigers, this is a must!!!! So many math concepts are taught using nonfiction so children can understand the connection easier. The reader follows the tiger from infancy through adulthood using all sorts of graphic organizers to understand things like number of species alive to different types of species, etc.The photos enable the learner to understand the information in an easy manner. And the photos themselves are rich and beautiful. Makes math fun and interesting
In a format that will surely please elementary school teachers struggling with curriculum frameworks, Tiger Math offers both story and instruction.The tragic tale of a motherless baby Siberian tiger named T.J. will capture reader's sympathy and interest as they read on to discover if will survive.The math part of the book is a natural extension of information.T.J.'s growth and progress is a concern, and is compared to his father's at the same age.Not only are concepts of graphing introduced, but interpreting data in is equally stressed. Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Children's 9-12 - Picturebooks    3. Children: Grades 3-4    4. Graphic Methods    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Juvenile literature    7. Mathematics - General    8. Tigers    9. Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.   

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My daughter LOVES this book!
The 'Touch and Feel' series of books by renowned publishing house 'Dorling Kindersley' answer all the questions a parent has when choosing baby and toddler books. Has it got loads of pictures? Is it durable? Is it educational? Is is funny? Is it tactile? Will it help them get to sleep!!!??? The answer to all these questions is a resounding 'YES!' So, we've read 'Jungle Animals', now all we've got to do is find room for all the other great books in the 'Touch and Feel' series ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - General    2. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    3. Children's Books/Baby-Preschool    4. Children: Preschool    5. Concepts - Sense & Sensation    6. General    7. Jungle animals    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Juvenile literature    10. Specimens    11. Textured books    12. Toy and movable books    13. Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    14. Early Education   

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Great Book!
I learned a lot about wolves from this book. And the pictures are sooooo cute! It is my favorite! I would get it if I were you!

My Kids Love It!!
This is an intriguing, engaging little tale about a baby wolf who learns how to howl and become part of the pack. The writer, Batten, writes in a lovely, simple way that seems to anticipate the child's next, inevitable question. The story is well augmented by the illustrations which are both pleasing to the eye and informative. A fun, excellent read.

Baby Wolf not just for six year olds
A simply lovely book that both my three year old daughter and I both enjoyed reading. Well thought out illustrations are a credit to the artist with an informative text that can be read even to a little one,without"what does that mean,dad" every five seconds. All in all just anice simple book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - Foxes    2. Behavior    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    4. Children: Grades 1-2    5. Infancy    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile literature    8. Parental behavior in animals    9. Readers - Beginner    10. Readers - Intermediate    11. Wolves    12. Animals    13. Dutch    14. English    15. English language reading schemes    16. Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.   

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Cheetah    3. Cheetahs    4. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 3-4    6. Juvenile General And Reference Works    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile Zoological Sciences    9. Juvenile literature   

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Yellow Eyes
I read this book when I was in elementary school (going on 43 here!) and until a year ago, I had this book in my collection to pass on to my kids, but sadly it has disappeared. I used to love this book and I love reading books about animals and believe it or not this book made me cry as did the book Snow Dog and Old Yeller. I even did a report on Yellow Eyes when I read it for school.

Still influenced decades later!
Picked this up at a Scholastic bookmobile at school, when I was a but a wee tot -- relatively speaking.STill one of my favorite books, and it held up when I re-read it decades later!

Timeless Classic
I read this book when I was a kid and remember it as one of my favorites.Recently I found it in a box of old books at my mother's house and brought it out to read to my kids.They where just as spell bound as I was.It is one of the most successful books at seeing life through the eyes of a wild animal without huminizing the animal.It does harken back to a time when the govermant paid people to kill animals rather then preserve them.That is a little confussing to kids but is a valuable history lesson. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Action & Adventure - General    2. Animals - LionsTigersLeopardsetc.    3. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction    5. Children: Grades 1-2    6. Classics    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Science & Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection    9. Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure    10. Juvenile Fiction-Animals - LionsTigersLeopardsetc.    11. Juvenile Fiction-Classics   

Subjects:  1. Animals - General    2. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    4. Children: Preschool    5. Juvenile Nonfiction   

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The information is packed in along with color photos
Stephen Swinburne's informative survey of the bobcat may present only 32 pages of detail, but the information is packed in along with color photos and provides enough natural history coverage to prove suitable for reports. The color photos throughout are interesting and educational.

A GREAT GREAT BOOK!!!!
I loved the author's book Coyote. I was hoping that this guy would write other books about other animals.I really felt like I was looking for the bobcat myself.I love learning about the bobcat's habits, what it eats, how it lives, and the history of the bobcat.The photographs by Susan Morse were amazing.Wow.I learned how hard it was to even see a bobcat.How did she ever get pictures like this?Well, she did!This makes me want to be a park ranger.Can't wait for the next book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Bobcat    3. Bobcats    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 1-2    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile literature   

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Children's 4-8 - Nature    3. Children: Kindergarten    4. Juvenile literature    5. Leopard    6. Animals    7. Juvenile Fiction / General    8. Zoology & animal sciences   

Subjects:  1. Animals - General    2. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    3. Children's Baby - Boardbooks    4. Children: Grades 3-4    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    7. WALL CALENDARS - CALENDARS NON BK   

Subjects:  1. Animals    2. Animals - Apes & Monkeys    3. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    4. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    5. Children: Babies & Toddlers    6. Chimpanzees    7. Infancy    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Juvenile literature   

Subjects:  1. Animals    2. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    3. Children's Baby/PS - Animals/Pets    4. Children's Books/Baby-Preschool    5. Children: Kindergarten    6. Infancy    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Lions    10. Mammals   

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Cat family (Mammals)    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    4. Children: Grades 2-3    5. Felidae    6. Juvenile Easy Readers    7. Juvenile Fiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Readers - Beginner    10. Readers - Chapter Books    11. Wild cats    12. Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Cats   

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 4-6    4. Endangered species    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Juvenile literature    7. Science & Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection    8. Tigers    9. Animals    10. Endangered species - Juvenile literature    11. Juvenile Nonfiction / Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection    12. Tigers - Juvenile literature   

Subjects:  1. Animals    2. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    4. Children: Kindergarten    5. Infancy    6. Juvenile literature    7. Tigers   

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Children: Grades 2-3    5. Endangered species    6. Juvenile Easy Readers    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection    10. Readers - Beginner    11. Science & Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection    12. Tigers    13. Juvenile Nonfiction / Readers / Beginner   

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Juvenile literature    5. Life cycles    6. Puma    7. Pumas   

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In the deep jungle of South America, you will find the jaguar! Offend him at your peril!
This book is great! Jaguars are my # 3 favorite animal of all time next to lions and tigers, and this book was really good. I liked the many facts I learned from it, and the jaguars in the photos were gorgeous. The only drawback is that the pictures were in black and white(I would have preffered color)but other than that, this is quite the marvelous book on nature in the form of the jaguar. There is a lot of interesting stuff to read in this, and you'll even see a jaguar or two swimming, mating, and rolling playfully on his/her back. If you like nature, especially the big cats, this book is for you. If you want to visit South America, read this first so you'll have fun taking pictures. Sense a trend here? I thought so. This book is very worthy of your pay. End of story. Oh, and wait till you see the cool things they do and the cute cubs. You'll smile ear to ear. Without any doubt. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.    2. Children's 9-12 - Environmental Studies    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. Endangered species    6. Jaguar    7. Jaguars    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Juvenile literature    10. Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection    11. Science & Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection    12. Animals    13. Mathematics and Science