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Catching Air - Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 09.01.2026

Description

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North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders-or is that evolution in another guise?


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Science writer Sneed B. Collard III (Missoula, MT; www.sneedbcollardiii.com) is the author of more than 80 children's books, including One Iguana, Two Iguanasand Catching Air. He has received the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work, and his books are featured regularly in the Junior Library Guild, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book lists, and other best-of lists.

Summary

*NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book* *Junior Library Guild Selection 2017*Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.

Product details

Authors Sneed B. Collard
Publisher Tilbury House,U.S.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 09.01.2026
 
EAN 9780884488835
ISBN 978-0-88448-883-5
No. of pages 48
Dimensions 206 mm x 257 mm x 8 mm
Weight 200 g
Illustrations color photography
Series How Nature Works
Subjects Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology
Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools
Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family

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