Absurd Animals

Our planet is home to animals so strange they seem made up, including koalas that somehow end up at crime scenes and lizards that can dash across the surface of water. This book looks at the science that explains these oddities, and that science is just as amusing as the creatures themselves.

Written as a high-interest, low-reading-level title, the book is pitched at readers in fifth and sixth grade who want playful subject matter. The text stays at roughly a second- to third-grade reading level, so the facts remain easy to follow for readers who find denser nonfiction hard going.