Crossings
Extraordinary Structures for Extraordinary Animals
Beach Lane Books · Print & ebook · October 13, 2020
This powerful nonfiction picture book explores wildlife crossings around the world and how they are helping save thousands of animals every day.
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- Who it’s for
- Wildlife crossings bring engineering and animal habitats into unexpectedly vivid conversation.
- Themes
- Wildlife conservation, Animal habitats and infrastructure, Engineering for wildlife safety
- Genres
- Protecting the Planet, Animal Facts, Animal Welfare
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This powerful nonfiction picture book explores wildlife crossings around the world and how they are helping save thousands of animals every day. Around the world, bridges, tunnels, and highways are constantly being built to help people get from one place to another. But what happens when construction spreads over, under, across, and through animal habitats?
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Thankfully, groups of concerned citizens, scientists, engineers, and construction crews have come together to create wildlife crossings to help keep animals safe. From elk traversing a wildlife bridge across a Canadian interstate to titi monkeys using rope bridges over a Costa Rican road to salamanders creeping through tiny tunnels beneath a Massachusetts street, young readers are certain to be delighted and inspired by these ingenious solutions that are saving the lives of countless wild animals.
Ingenious Ways Across
Wildlife crossings bring engineering and animal habitats into unexpectedly vivid conversation.
Come here for
- Bridges, rope crossings, and tunnels designed to help animals travel safely
- Examples ranging from elk to salamanders
Expect
- A clear, engaging look at practical solutions to a real-world problem
- A picture-book exploration of wildlife and human-built structures
Where it sits
| Protecting the Planet | 92% |
|---|---|
| Animal Facts | 52% |
| Animal Welfare | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Big Cats
- Animal Welfare
- Penguins
- Authors
- Katy S. Duffield
- Publisher
- Beach Lane Books
- Published
- October 13, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wildlife conservation · Animal habitats and infrastructure · Engineering for wildlife safety
- Reading lane
- Big Cats