"Kneeling in a muddy field, clutching something soft and blue-black, Marc Hamer vows he will stop trapping moles--forever. In this earnest, understated, and sublime work of nonfiction literature, the molecatcher shares what led him to this strange career: from sleeping among hedges as a homeless teen, to toiling on the railway, to weeding windswept gardens in Wales. Hamer infuses his wanderings with radiant poetry and stark, simple observations on...

This book gives fascinating facts about beluga whales and their lives in the wild. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary, an index, and a list of resources for further reading.

Presents information on how to tell the difference between seals and sea lions, even though they are similar in many ways.

Whales migrate incredibly long distances every year! They travel to warmer waters in the winter to mate and to cooler waters in the summer. From calf to whale and through the oceans of the world, follow the amazing whale journey.

They're (sometimes) big, they're hairy, and they're warm-blooded. From human to moose and from cat to rat, Bill Nye explains what it takes to be in the mammal family.

Discusses the migration patterns of such mammals as the bear, bat, lemming, elephant, and bison.

The woolly mammoth went extinct about 7,500 years ago. It was about the same size as the elephants of today, but it was covered in a thick coat of fur. The woolly mammoth also had twisted tusks that grew up to 9 feet (2.7 meters) long. Learn more about this remarkable animal in Woolly Mammoth, an Extinct Animals book.

Small mammals include those mammals weighing under five kilograms (approximately eleven pounds). Merritt introduces the various species that fall under this heading, then follows with chapters that cover such topics as behavior, modes of feeding, locomotion, habitat use, reproduction, and coping with heat loss.