Baby Animals with Their Families

We read this book before and after a trip to the zoo. The group of 6-8 year olds really appreciated the comparisons they found in the book and the real baby animals they saw at the zoo. It was a very entertaining way to reinforce what they learned at the zoo. The pictures are great and the stories keep the kid's interest.

What is more precious than showing children pictures of baby animals. This is the final book I read with my grandchildren in the Baby Animals series. It highlights ten different animal families with their parents showing them doing various things. The animals vary in geography as well as some being well-known and others not being as familiar such as a topi or sloth. The illustrations are beautiful photographs taken by Suzi Eszterhas, who is a wildlife photographer and animal activist. All the photos in this book are of baby animals and their families in the wild, with exceptions of some at the back of the book as added material. The text included are short anecdotes describing what is happening in the pictures as well as identifying the animals. This is a great read aloud story for young children, probably best 4 and up. I read this with both of my grandchildren and they were arguing because my 2.5 year old granddaughter kept turning the pages as she just wanted to look at the pictures, and my 5 year old grandson wanted to listen to the text and talk about the animals shown. As Suzi Eszterhas says at the end of the book, “I think it’s important for kids to connect with animals and nature. You can do this by looking at photos, reading books, or just going outside with your family to play and explore your world, like these baby animals.” This is a great non-fiction book to add to school and family libraries. A good book for any animal lover.

Young children love photographic works and Eszterhas’s skill with the camera is extraordinary; it never fails to please. Here she focuses on some of the groups animals (including birds) grow up in. The shapes and sizes of these groups provide unique survival benefits for different animals, and wild creatures have different ways of communicating within them. For instance, in albatross colonies, the birds have distinct calls so family members can be recognized. Elephants greet friends and relatives with their trunks.

Eszterhas covers some familiar animals—such as lions, chimps, cheetahs, and polar bears—but some less commonly known ones also appear in her book: Topi (a subspecies of antelope), bat-eared foxes, and ring-tailed lemurs.

Her accessible, kid-friendly text is limited to about three sentences per double-paged spread. New collective noun vocabulary is introduced: pride, herd, troop (for lemurs) and tower (for giraffes).

This is a lovely little, “just-right” book for young readers.

Baby Animals with their Families is a picture book that shows baby animals, with, you guessed it, their families. Some cuties included are chimps, lions, polar bears, and a ton of other adorable babies. A bunch of adorable photos and some interesting facts about families and what they are called and how they survive out in the wild.

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated. This book will be released on March 15 from Owlkids books.

This is a gorgeous introduction to some baby animals and their families. The book highlights chimpanzees, lions, albatrosses, topi, polar bears, humpback whales, sloths, elephants, cheetahs, and foxes. The photos are adorable and I would love to have this book in my collection for my preschool! If you have little ones at home, this is a cute animal book, I hope you check it out!
Thank you to NetGalley and Owlkids for this e-copy. This book comes out March 15, 2019

An ambitious and beautifully organized and collected narrative and images to accompany them. A must for young children and young children's classrooms.

There simply are never enough books about baby animals. If you have ever been around a toddler or pre-schooler, you probably know that! My 3 year old son loved the beautiful photos and commented on the expressions on the animals' faces. He liked to imagine what the animals were thinking! Nicely done and very enjoyable!