Does a Bear Wash its Hair?: Animals eat, sleep and poo, just like you!

By Author / Illustrator

Moira Butterfield, Adam Ming

Genre

Animals

Age range(s)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Children's Books

ISBN

9781526647085

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

09-05-2024

Synopsis

Learn all about the incredible daily routines of animals in this bright, fact-packed sequel to Does a Monkey Get Grumpy?

Did you know that some crabs get dressed? Or that young meerkats have to go to 'school'? Or that sloths have very particular pooping habits? From brave plover birds who clean crocodile teeth, to orangutans who make cosy treetop beds, animals have the most fascinating routines - just like us! Whether they're keeping clean or using tools to catch their dinner, explore the daily habitats of 15 animals across the planet - including sloths, meerkats, alpacas, wolves, foxes, crabs and more.

With bouncy rhythmic text and fascinating facts, this book will help children identify daily activities, while teaching them how very similar the lives of humans and animals really are.

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Reviews

Sue

Does a Bear Wash its Hair? is a wonderful exploration of animals and their habits! Through the perfect mix of rhyming text, snippets of information and delightful illustrations, children can discover so much about animal habits.

The book starts by showing eight activities which humans routinely undertake from keeping clean to going to sleep. Each of these areas then has a section devoted to it, showing how various creatures perform the same tasks, allowing young children to compare these to their own routines. They are sure to be fascinated when learning how decorator crabs dress up and how cows make friends, but undoubtedly, the fact that a sloth has one big poo which is a third of its body weight each week will be the fact that is quoted most often!

The rhyming text is engaging and fun, making the book a pleasure to read aloud and the illustrations are great fun, full of details and humorous thought bubbles. There is a great deal of information presented here, making this a very successful factual text for young readers.

Picture book / Reviewed by Sue Wilsher, teacher