This Is How I Grow [Hardcover]

Explore what it means to be all grown up!All newborn mammalswhether they have hooves, flippers, claws, or wingsrely on mothers milk to help them grow. In order to survive, every cub, calf, and kit must eventually figure out how to find their own food. From bats learning how to fly to elephants gaining control of their trunks, animal families help their young develop the tools they need to hunt, forage, or scavenge. Open this book to explore the incredible variety of skills baby mammals must learn in order to survive and thrive.This Is How I Grow is a 2019 Tillywig Brain Child award winner.How do baby mammals grow? Food! And with a lot of help from their mothers.This book shares the life cycle story of eight different mammal babies from habitats across the globe. Readers learn essential facts about each animals birth, nursing, weaning, hunting or foraging skills, and other techniques that they must learn from their mother (and community) before they can be all grown up.As they page through the expansive panoramic illustrations, readers explore the vast diversity of the mammal world and learn about those things that unite all mammals. The written text foregrounds the importance of mothers milk in infancy and learning to find food as each animal matures; the lifelike visual text provides more information about each species, including their habitat, family group, and relative size.An extensive free Teachers Guide provides further information and hands-on activities to expand opportunities for learning. This book is designed for students ages 7-10 (grades 2-5). Content aligns with the NGSS (detailed articulation is outlined in the Teachers Guide).Free-tailed bats Red squirrels Red kangaroos Pumas Blue whales Polar bears Masai giraffes Asian elephants Animals around the world mapReference pagesDia L. Michels is an award-winning science and parenting writer who has authored or edited over a dozen books for both children and adults. While her topics include sciencel3