Illustrations and rhyming text present ten different endangered animals in this easy-reader version of the 2003 tale. Includes note to parents and teachers, as well as activities.

When William Everett Crocodile is chosen to be a suitcase, his talking toothbrush becomes his salvation.

"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement--told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to...