Electronic Time for Learning: Animals Book

Electronic Time for Learning: Animals is an interactive sound book that examines some of the most captivating animals in the world through fascinating text, color photographs, and more than 120 authentic sounds and audio facts. Aimed at readers ages seven to ten, this hardcover book provides interesting statistics like habitat, life span, and conservation status for each animal, along with striking color photos from the San Diego Zoo.

To hear animal sounds, readers enter three-digit codes found on the book's pages into the attached keypad. The variety of animal noises ranges from the familiar bellow of an elephant and howl of a wolf to the unique sounds of a kookaburra, bonobo, Tasmanian devil, flamingo, and camel. The book contains more than 15 total minutes of audio.

Readers can also use the codes in Electronic Time for Learning: Animals to hear and answer dozens of animal-related trivia questions. For example:
• Why do camels have a split upper lip?
• What is a group of pelicans called?
• What does the shell of the leatherback turtle allow it to do?
• What is unique about the fur of a sea otter?

Readers are certain to enjoy listening to the howls, hoots, and hisses of the natural world's wildest residents. The animals featured in Electronic Time for Learning: Animals include:
• Mammals, including camels, antelope, giraffes, hippos, sheep, wolves, cheetahs, leopards, and mountain lions
• Reptiles and amphibians, including frogs and toads, turtles and crocodiles, snakes, boas, pythons, cobras, and rattlesnakes
• Birds, including hummingbirds, storks, hornbills, eagles, California condors, pelicans, toucans, and owls