The Kangaroo

The Kangaroo
By: Diana Noonan
Copyright
Chelsea Clubhouse
Older School Age Kids
Non Fiction
32 Pages

The kangaroo has it's own special life cycle.  They are mamals, but it is an unusal one becuase it is also a memeber of the marsupial family.  The kangroo keeps their young in a puch until it is ready to be out on its own.  They live in mobs and are noctural feeders, so they eat at night or in the early morning when the weather is cool.  Durring those hot sunny days they take their naps in the shade or dig holes to stay cool.  Male kangaroo will fight to see who can court the famale.  When a newborn is born it staying in the pouch, this tiny thing has to crawl into its mothers pouch with no help.  There it will feed and grow.  The mother can seal her pouch to protect the baby.  After 4 months the newborn is now called a joey and at 5 months it can leave the mothers pouch, and at 20 months it is free to be on its own.  There is so much more information on Kangaroos too.

This book is good to have in a classroom, but it is more for the older school kids because it has a lot of information on breeding and things that younger kids might not understand.

I don't think there is anything wrong with this book.

I learned a lot from this book.  I enojyed it.