"This nonfiction picture book uses a playful guessing game to introduce eight different ocean animals and some unique aspects of their bodies."--

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

Text and illustrations present such ocean creatures as the manta ray, dolphin, and octopus, explaining their physical structures and how they work.

A baby owl flies through the night, listening carefully to different sounds as he tries to find Mommy Owl.

On a cold winter night many animals gather to party in the cave of a sleeping bear, who then awakes and protests that he has missed the food and the fun.

Introduces the classification of animals, discussing how animals that share only one of a number of such specific characteristics as drinking nectar or being small can in fact be very different in other respects.

In simple text a set of animals, each one linked to the previous one by some trait of shape, color, or pattern, greet and interact with one another.

Uses the story of someone stealing a Queen's shadow at a ball to illustrate the different types of vision that various animals have, including chameleons, sharks, lancehead snakes, dragonflies, pigeons, and sea urchins.

Five little penguins flee from a seal, flying through the water, and find themselves in an innocent game of tag.