Axolotl!: Fun Facts About the World's Coolest Salamander - An Info-Picturebook for Kids (Funny Fauna)

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The layout of the contents features a full-page photo of the animal, so that readers can get a good look at each cute creature. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Back matter includes a glossary and a page titled The Science of Cute that discusses some interesting information on cuteness appeal and its value. Brown's fascination with animals continued in college, where she took numerous field biology and wildlife classes that allowed her to view the behavior of many species in their native habitats.

If you’ve read the story, then there’s a good chance that you, too, have fallen under the spell of the world’s weirdest, cutest salamander. Attached to its long, squishy body are four limbs, with delicate fingers and toes, and an extensive, flexible tail.Take what speaks to you, and leave the rest behind—after all, that’s totally what an axolotl would do. If you're having a bad day, I highly recommend looking up quokkas, flying dwarf squirrels, pygmy hippos, and fennec foxes. But generally speaking, Cute as an Axolotl certainly does in every way pretty much achieve what the title suggests, namely listing and describing seventeen diverse animal species (and thankfully not just mammalian in nature either) that are generally considered as potentially appealing and adorable looking, or rather more to the point, presenting seventeen animal species that many, that most of us tend to view as cute and even potentially cuddly (and Jess Keating also points out that the entire concept animalian "cuteness" might well be something of a survival strategy, that for example, many baby animals, including human infants, with their rounded faces, large eyes, small noses and plump bodies could very well appear as such for specific evolutionary, survival of the fittest reasons, namely to make them appear as endearing and lovable and thus not as likely to be attacked both by other species but also and perhaps even more importantly by their own kind). Animals around the world are headed to bed in this beautifully illustrated book, which adds an odd twist of quirkiness to make it an intriguing read….

The Old Axolotl ( Polish: Starość aksolotla) is a 2015 digital-only novel by Polish science-fiction author Jacek Dukaj. Containing lovely photographs, pictures, and diagrams, my only gripe is that the photos don't fill the full width of the pages.

Offbeat humor permeates the text… and accompanies Bondestam’s quirky, multipatterned collage-style illustrations. It looked like a mix of an alien and a human being, something very innocent,” she marveled in a Zoom interview. The children’s book author had never heard about the mysterious endangered amphibian before attending a book fair in Bologna, Italy, a few years ago.

Mammals predominate with seven entries, including quokka, pangolin, and pygmy hippo, but there are also birds (saw-whet owl, fairy penguin), insects (rosy maple moth, bee fly), amphibians (axolotl, bare-hearted glass frog), reptiles (minute leaf chameleon), a cephalopod (hummingbird bobtail squid), a nudibranch (blue dragon), and a crustacean (pom-pom crab). Author Linda Bondestam’s My Life at the Bottom: The Story of a Lonesome Axolotl became available in May. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. However, since Cute as an Axolotl implies that the animals selected by Jess Keating, that the animals described and featured in her text are supposed to appear as endearing, as potentially lovable and thus obviously also as sweet looking, sorry, but far too many of David DeGrand's pictures really are not what I would personally consider as cute and cuddly (with some of the illustrations, such as his renditions of the Quokka and the Pygmy Hippopotamus actually appearing even as potentially a bit frightening to very sensitive readers). Very extensive table of contents which seems to cover everything we will need to know to be successful.Now we meet the cute Axolotl (ax-uh-LOT-ul) and other adorable creatures whose cuteness is surpassed by their amazing adaptations that help them survive in unique environments. Like with the first and second books of Jess Keating's The World of Weird Animals series (like with her Pink is for Blobfish and What Makes a Monster? Even as we admire the axolotl’s spirit and learn more about its babyishness (known as neoteny), we have a responsibility to help preserve these amphibians’ environment so that they can be enjoyed for generations to come. But, as you’ll soon discover, what axolotls lack in physical sophistication they more than make up for in attitude.