Animals in Surprising Shades: Poems about Earth’s Colorful Creatures
Susan Johnston Taylor
Animals in Surprising Shades is a collection of poems about colorful creatures from around the world. Its subjects include birds, bugs, snails, and slugs, whose feathers, fur, skin, or scales show many colors. The book also considers why a blue-footed booby dances and how a Picasso bug uses a chemical defense against predators. The poems pair animal color with behavior and survival.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.
