Winter's Orphans: The Search for a Family of Mountain Lion Cubs, a True Story - Hardcover
The author, a wildlife biologist, describes how he helped find the orphaned cubs of a mountain lion shot near his home in Colorado and how the cubs were cared for until they could be released back into the wild.
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Grade 4-6-- A former field biologist describes his successful rescue of three mountain lion cubs in Colorado. Farentinos tells in a matter-of-fact style how the cubs became orphaned when a farmer shot their mother, and how he tracked them. The middle section of the book consists of his lengthy, but compelling dream in which readers enter the world of the young mountain lions as they witness their mother's death and struggle to survive alone and unprotected. There is a poor transition between the first-person narrative and this dream sequence, and it is sure to confuse children. In the closing section, the author recounts how he at last captured the cubs, spent an exciting night with them in his home, and then turned them over to a wildlife rehabilitation center. Arranged in a picture-book format with lovely colorful illustrations and pen-and-ink sketches, this offering will attract younger readers. However, the lengthy text is not broken down into chapters, making it difficult to read aloud, and the vocabulary is too difficult for primary graders. Older children are likely to be turned off by the format. --Barbara B. Murphy, Shaler Area School District Libraries, Pittsburgh
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1879373548
- ISBN 13 9781879373549
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
- IllustratorKeegan Shannon
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