Product Description: Who would win the Olympic gold medals if all the competitors were animals? Each book in the series covers a different type of Olympic sport, while each chapter looks at a different event. Primarily intended as high-interest reads, the books contain information relating to biology, and allow readers countless opportunities to compare and contrast...read more

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Looks at different animals that can swim, including both such aquatic creatures as the sea snake, the sea otter, and the American bullfrog, and land mammals including cats, tigers, pigs, elephants, horses, and snow monkeys.

Encourages children to be active by having them mimic the movements of creatures found in and around the sea.

Product Description: Contents include: What is swimming? How do things swim? Can birds swim? Can things without legs swim? Can big things swim? Can things with flippers swim? Can bugs swim? Can machines swim? Can people swim?

Text and illustrations show animals that swim and dive and remind readers that they sometimes move like animals.

Describes why and how such creatures as squids, scallops, devil fish, and sea otters swim--for protection, for pleasure, and to get around.

Describes why and how such creatures as squids, scallops, devil fish, and sea otters swim--for protection, for pleasure, and to get around. (view table of contents)

Describes why and how such creatures as squids, scallops, devil fish, and sea otters swim--for protection, for pleasure, and to get around.

Depicts animals that spend some or all of their time in the water and describes how they swim

Full-color illustrations look at the best of animal swimmers, from the alligator, turtle, and duckbill platypus to the walrus and the otter