Catching Air

Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals

By:

Sneed B Collard

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Paperback / softback

Series:

How Nature Works

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North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders?or is that evolution in another guise?

Author Biography:

Science writer Sneed B. Collard III (Missoula, MT; www.sneedbcollardiii.com) is the author of more than 80 children’s books, including One Iguana, Two Iguanasand Catching Air. He has received the Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work, and his books are featured regularly in the Junior Library Guild, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book lists, and other best-of lists.

Release date Australia

May 7th, 2021

Author

Sneed B Collard

Audience

Children / Juvenile

Illustrations

color photography

Interest Age

From 8 to 12 years

Pages

Series

How Nature Works

Dimensions

206x257x8

ISBN-13

9780884488835

Product ID

34022564

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