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Describes the life cycle, characteristics, and habitats of lemmings.
| Details | | Series: | Creatures All Around Us |
| Size | | Length: | 40 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 9.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 10.4 oz |
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Gr 4-5-Crisp color photos and a readable, informative text are blended in this slim volume to present an accurate picture of several types of lemmings. Prolific, vegetarian nonhibernators, these tiny rodents are an extremely important part of the food supply for many predators in the arctic and subarctic regions, and their population fluctuations have enormous impact on the proliferation (and even survival) of many species. Physical appearance, mating, rearing young, evading enemies, and the startling effects of population explosions (particularly among the Norway lemming) are clearly described. Teamed with Alan Arkin's fictional The Lemming Condition (HarperCollins, 1976) and Joanne Ryder's pourquoi tale, Winter White (Morrow, 1996), What's a Lemming? will provide a scientific pivot for a nifty, little whole-literature unit.-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
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