Farm Animals for Kids: A Fun Fact Picture Book About Farm Animals - Featuring 25 Amazing Farm Animals (The Wonderful World for Curious Kids)
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A pig can learn its own name and come running when you call it. A pigeon can find its way home from a thousand miles away. A single sheep can remember 50 faces for years. We see these animals all the time and barely know them at all. Now your curious kid can meet 25 farm animals up close and find out what they're really like.Inside this book, kids will discover:Why a chicken is basically a tiny dinosaur. It's the closest living relative of the mighty T. rex, and over 25 billion of them are strutting around the planet right now.How a duck sleeps with one eye open. It rests one half of its brain at a time, so the other half can keep watch for foxes all night long.What really happens to a "fainting goat." When it gets startled, its muscles lock up for a few seconds and it topples over stiff, then pops right back up.Why a bull doesn't actually hate the color red. Bulls can't even see red. It's the flapping of the cape, not the color, that makes one charge.How honeybees give directions. A worker bee dances a wiggly figure-eight to tell the whole hive exactly which way to fly for the best flowers.What made a pigeon a wartime hero. A brave homing pigeon named Cher Ami carried a message that helped save nearly 200 soldiers.Why a cow can get genuinely sad. Cows make close best friends, and they get stressed and mopey when they're kept apart from their favorite pal.How a barn cat almost always lands on its feet. It twists its bendy body in midair to aim its paws down before it touches the ground.Every animal comes with big, bright photographs, short easy-to-read facts, and a bust-the-myth page that settles playground arguments for good. It's one of the friendliest nonfiction books on farm animals for children ages 6 to 12, great for bedtime, the classroom, or homeschool.Twenty-five farm animals. Hundreds of true surprises. Meet the whole farm.Part of The Wonderful World for Curious Kids series. Read more
