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Cute baby animal pictures with some fun facts.

Wonderful non-fiction for ages 5-10. Great details, beautiful photography (not surprising as author is a professional wildlife photographer), compelling story. Besides the pictures of the adorable serval Moto, my favorite part was how the author made a pouch in her shirt so she could carry Moto around and have her hands free to take pictures.

Very interesting book but the QR codes for the short videos aren't linked anymore

Very interesting book but the QR codes for the short videos aren't linked anymore

My Wild Life
Adventures of a Wildlife Photographer
by Suzi Eszterhas
This is such a wonderful book! A great inspiration especially to young girls! Suzi explains how she had a dream and went from taking pictures in her backyard to photographing animals around the world! She doesn't pull punches either. She tells of the hard work involved, the many challenges to overcome ( bugs, heat, long hours in the heat or ice). But her pictures show the great benefit of her hard work. The book has delightful images of Suzi with many animals and other photos from her collection. Beautiful!

Suzi Eszterhas is a wildlife photographer on the Masai Mara Preserve in Kenya. Suzi is asked if she would like to foster an serval kitten that was brought in by a tourist group after a fire. Suzi readily accepts and takes on the additional role of wildlife rehabilitator to Moto, the serval. As Moto's adopted mother, Suzi must learn how to care for Moto and teach him how to be a serval in the wild, just like Moto's real mom would have done so he can go back to the wild once more.

Moto and me is a fun and informative inside look at wildlife rehabilitation and the life of a serval. This nonfiction book is aimed at children aged 5-10. The pictures were all very cute and obviously amazing, taken by Suzi herself. They documented Moto's life with her from kittenhood to an adult cat and give readers a chance to see Moto learning how to be a Serval as well as techniques that Suzi used in Moto's rehabilitation. Along with this are great lessons about African animals, life cycles and the importance of leaving wildlife in the wild.

This book was received for free in return for an honest review.

Panda Opposites by Suzi Eszterhas is an enchanting board book to help little minds learn opposites. From clean and dirty, to sleeping and playing, cuddly panda cubs make learning fun! A perfect teaching tool!

***Many thanks to Netgalley and Owlkids Books for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Moto, is a wildcat, a Serval, from Kenya. When he is found at approximately 2 weeks old by tourists, he is given to the author Suzi Eszterhas, a wildlife photographer. She is asked by the Rangers to foster the kitten. Her goal is to look after him, but to assist him to become independent so he can survive in the wild. There are beautiful photographs that add to the narrative of what Suzi does to help Moto learn to be an independent adult. There is a section at the back that gives facts about servals. I had never heard of this type of cat before, so found the information fascinating. It is important that the book teaches that fostering a wild animal is not the same as having a pet. That is something that children need to learn. This book would be a great addition to a school library and could be used in different ways. The publisher generously provided me a copy of this book via netgalley.

What is more precious than showing children pictures of baby animals. This is the final book I read with my grandchildren in the Baby Animals series. It highlights ten different animal families with their parents showing them doing various things. The animals vary in geography as well as some being well-known and others not being as familiar such as a topi or sloth. The illustrations are beautiful photographs taken by Suzi Eszterhas, who is a wildlife photographer and animal activist. All the photos in this book are of baby animals and their families in the wild, with exceptions of some at the back of the book as added material. The text included are short anecdotes describing what is happening in the pictures as well as identifying the animals. This is a great read aloud story for young children, probably best 4 and up. I read this with both of my grandchildren and they were arguing because my 2.5 year old granddaughter kept turning the pages as she just wanted to look at the pictures, and my 5 year old grandson wanted to listen to the text and talk about the animals shown. As Suzi Eszterhas says at the end of the book, "I think it's important for kids to connect with animals and nature. You can do this by looking at photos, reading books, or just going outside with your family to play and explore your world, like these baby animals." This is a great non-fiction book to add to school and family libraries. A good book for any animal lover. The publisher, Owlkids Books, generously provided me with a copy of this book upon my request. The rating, ideas and opinions shared are my own.

This book shows how many animal babies move, whether alone or with the help of their parents. The illustrations are beautiful photographs taken by Suzi Eszterhas, who is a wildlife photographer and animal activist. All the photos in this book are of animal families in the wild moving from place to place. Not only does the text tell us how they move, by why and when. The text that is included are short anecdotes describing what is happening in the pictures as well as identifying the animals. This is a great read aloud story for young children. A great non-fiction book to add to school and family libraries. A good book for any animal lovers. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via netgalley.

This book shows many animals playing with their mothers and siblings. Their purpose for play is exercise as well to learn how to behave as an adult. They need to be able to fight to survive in the wild when their mothers are not around to protect and defend them anymore as well as how to gather food and take care of themselves and their own families. The illustrations are beautiful photographs taken by Suzi Eszterhas, who is a wildlife photographer and animal activist. All the photos in this book are of baby animals playing in the wild. The text that is included are short anecdotes describing what is happening in the pictures as well as identifying the animals. This is a great read aloud story for young children. Discussions about human play and how it relates to animal play could also occur during and after reading. A great non-fiction book to add to school and family libraries. A good book for any animal lovers. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via netgalley.

Young children love photographic works and Eszterhas’s skill with the camera is extraordinary; it never fails to please. Here she focuses on some of the groups animals (including birds) grow up in. The shapes and sizes of these groups provide unique survival benefits for different animals, and wild creatures have different ways of communicating within them. For instance, in albatross colonies, the birds have distinct calls so family members can be recognized. Elephants greet friends and relatives with their trunks.

Eszterhas covers some familiar animals—such as lions, chimps, cheetahs, and polar bears—but some less commonly known ones also appear in her book: Topi (a subspecies of antelope), bat-eared foxes, and ring-tailed lemurs.

Her accessible, kid-friendly text is limited to about three sentences per double-paged spread. New collective noun vocabulary is introduced: pride, herd, troop (for lemurs) and tower (for giraffes).

This is a lovely little, “just-right” book for young readers.

These two titles are part of a series by wildlife photographer and author Suzi Eszterhas. I've really loved her books in the past and, although some are a little long for reading with younger children, they are great fun to look at and talk about.

Eszterhas knows just what interests children - cute animal babies! In Baby Animals Moving she explores how a wide variety of baby animals get around. A lion cub is carried in its mother's mouth, a warthog piglet trots through the grass, bear cubs piggyback on their mom in the water, and many other animals cavort through the pages. Some of the text is a little clumsy, "Orca calves are strong swimmers. They dive and flip as they move through the ocean with their family pod. Sometimes they swim for miles to find fish to eat. See you later, orcas!" but it's simple enough to explain to a young child and kids will enjoy mimicking the different animal movements.

Another title in this series, Baby animals playing, features a different set of cute baby animals frolicking; but it's not all fun and games, their play will prepare them for survival later in life. A bison calf butts heads to practice protective moves, jackal pups play with a ball of elephant poop to learn to work together, and many baby animals climb trees. The text in this title isn't quite as even - some explain how the baby animals' play will help them survive later, other pages just make generic comments, "Raccoon kits perch high in the treetops. It's a safe place to hang out while Mom looks for food below."

But the real focus of the books are the engaging photos of wildlife and different movements that kids can mimic as well as showing young children how they are similar and different to animals. Back matter includes a note from the author and some additional photographs and information about them.

Verdict: These are great introductions to animals for young children and I will happily add them to my animal section (and my storytimes) to spark interest in preschool and kindergarten-age listeners.

Baby Animals Moving; ISBN: 9781771472999; Published 2018 by Owl Kids; Borrowed from another library in my consortium

Baby Animals Playing; ISBN: 9781771472975; Published 2017 by Owl Kids; Borrowed from another library in my consortium

These two titles are part of a series by wildlife photographer and author Suzi Eszterhas. I've really loved her books in the past and, although some are a little long for reading with younger children, they are great fun to look at and talk about.

Eszterhas knows just what interests children - cute animal babies! In Baby Animals Moving she explores how a wide variety of baby animals get around. A lion cub is carried in its mother's mouth, a warthog piglet trots through the grass, bear cubs piggyback on their mom in the water, and many other animals cavort through the pages. Some of the text is a little clumsy, "Orca calves are strong swimmers. They dive and flip as they move through the ocean with their family pod. Sometimes they swim for miles to find fish to eat. See you later, orcas!" but it's simple enough to explain to a young child and kids will enjoy mimicking the different animal movements.

Another title in this series, Baby animals playing, features a different set of cute baby animals frolicking; but it's not all fun and games, their play will prepare them for survival later in life. A bison calf butts heads to practice protective moves, jackal pups play with a ball of elephant poop to learn to work together, and many baby animals climb trees. The text in this title isn't quite as even - some explain how the baby animals' play will help them survive later, other pages just make generic comments, "Raccoon kits perch high in the treetops. It's a safe place to hang out while Mom looks for food below."

But the real focus of the books are the engaging photos of wildlife and different movements that kids can mimic as well as showing young children how they are similar and different to animals. Back matter includes a note from the author and some additional photographs and information about them.

Verdict: These are great introductions to animals for young children and I will happily add them to my animal section (and my storytimes) to spark interest in preschool and kindergarten-age listeners.

Baby Animals Moving; ISBN: 9781771472999; Published 2018 by Owl Kids; Borrowed from another library in my consortium

Baby Animals Playing; ISBN: 9781771472975; Published 2017 by Owl Kids; Borrowed from another library in my consortium

*Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

This is one of the best animal books I've read in a long time. It's a wonderful story about a serval (Moto) in the wild, who needs help. Beautifully written and full of photos, this is a perfect read for elementary children. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone!

Suzi Eszterhas, photographer and author of several books for kids featuring wildlife, tells the story of caring for an orphaned wildcat while she worked as a photographer.

Moto, a tiny serval kitten, is given to Eszterhas to raise as she goes about her daily business of photography. She talks about her life as an animal photographer, how Moto came to be abandoned, and how she cared for him and helped me grow and become independent.

The book is a mixture of factual explanations of a serval's life and some of the other animals in the area combined with anecdotes of Moto's life both funny and educational. Eventually, Moto learns to hunt and takes off into the savannah; he's later glimpsed living successfully on his own by park rangers.

The book ends with a collection of facts about servals, including a warning against purchasing exotic pets or mixed breeds like Savanna cats.

The book is longer than a picture book, although that's its format. And, of course, it's absolutely full of gorgeous photographs of Moto growing from a delightfully fluffy kitten to a graceful, sleek serval.

Verdict: A great title for beginning chapter and intermediate readers or to share with a classroom. Kids will love the friendly, simple text and all the adorable photographs. There are even a few gentle reminders about not interfering with wildlife along the way. Recommended.

ISBN: 9781771472425; Published 2017 by Owlkids; Borrowed from another library in my consortium

Sea Otters are an endangered species, native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. While many people never see a Sea Otter in the wild, they are out there. When a sea otter is injured or washed ashore (usually young ones) one place where they are taken and looked after is the Alaska Sea Life Center, located on the shores of Resurrection Bay in Seward, Alaska. This book details how they are taken care of and rehabilitated. Author Suzi Eszterhas an award winning Wildlife photographer who takes us on a tour of this facility and shares the sea otter's rescue and rehab. The end of the book talks about conservation, as well as what we can do to save wildlife (i.e. reducing pollutants, cleaning up rivers and streams etc.). The photographs that accompany the text are wonderful. You just want to grab on and give these animals a great big hug. I can see children wanting a sea otter as a pet after they read this book. I love that a portion of the royalties from the sale of this book will go to the Alaskan Sea Life Center. A great book for animal lovers, those interested in endangered species and conservationists. This is a children's book, but I learned things from it that I did not know. I recommend this book to be in all school libraries. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.½

This is a lovely book full of beautiful photographs and non fictional information in the form of a story, so that the child can learn about sea otters in a way that is accessible. The story follows the story of a baby sea otter born in the Pacific Ocean. It follows the baby's journey through the trials of facing predators and day to day life, illustrated with real photographs of sea otters in the wild. At the end of the book, the pup has grown up over the past year, and is ready to face the world as an adult.

I saw this series, Eye on the Wild, at an ALA conference a few years back and fell in love. This one is my particular favorite, because I love bears.

Beaaaars, so round and furry and awesome. Beaaaars.

Ahem. So, this is a picture book format, simple introduction to the life cycle, especially the growing-up years, of a brown bear. The story of the bear's lives begins with their birth in the den and moves through their growing up years until they set out on their own. The text is simple and bold, using plain language to explain to young children how the bears' mother takes care of them and adding in interesting facts seamlessly to the text. It's a little longer for reading aloud to very young children, but four year olds up through first grade will enjoy listening to this.

Of course, the big draw of these books, and this one especially is the bears. Eszterhas is a wildlife photographer and specializes in photographing families and baby animals, so you know there are going to be lots of awesome bear pictures. I loved the way it started out showing the bears when they were small and they slowly grow through the story, following the text, so at the end they're as big as the mother bear. Close-ups show the cubs nursing, fishing, digging for clams, and more.

A final page gives a list of bear facts and there are more photographs on the endpapers. I would have liked to see some sources or bibliography, but this is an introduction for very young children so it's really not necessary.

Verdict: Adorable photographs and simple, clear text perfect for older storytimes or bear fans. There are also volumes on the cheetah, gorilla, lion, orangutan, and sea otter, which is my other favorite. There was supposed to be an elephant and tiger next year, but they appear to be cancelled on Baker & Taylor, although they show available for preorder on the author's website. Hopefully that will change, since these are great books to introduce young children to popular and endangered animals.

ISBN: 9781847803023; Published 2012 by Frances Lincoln Children's Books; Purchased for the library

A beautiful, informative photo essay for younger readers about a family of cheetahs.

Beautiful, informative photo essay for younger readers about a family of mountain gorillas. I would have liked to have seen an author's note explaining the where, when, and how she went about documenting these particular animals.

A beautiful, informative photo essay for younger readers about a family of lions.

A beautiful, informative photo essay for younger readers about a family of brown bears.

Exceptional photography and great information. A great introduction for young children.