Heather Lang

"Supermoms are everywhere. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and species. With powerful instincts and extraordinary skills, these moms do whatever it takes to protect and raise their young."

This concise intro leads into plenty of examples, including groundhogs, emperor penguins, strawberry poison dart frogs, red-knobbed hornbills, polar bears, bearded capuchins, wolf spiders, little brown bats, American alligators, and more. Funny speech bubbles from moms and offspring dot each page spread. Back matter incudes superlatives for each (e.g. "super generous," "super determined," "super tough"), along with where they live, what they eat, and a "guess what?" fact. There is also a page full of resources (books, online, and AV).

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Margaret Lowman is a white American, female biologist that took her childhood fascination with leaves and turned it into a career full of rainforest exploration, education and conservation. This book tells her experiences throughout her life an why she was so into leaves and trees. The book also discusses how she invented new ways to study trees. This book will be another good ones to have in a science teacher classroom library because it talks about the rainforest environment, has a lot of cool pictures to look at and gives a lot of information for different ecosystems/environments.… (más)