Wild Animal Neighbors
Sharing Our Urban World

please enjoy this song as you read the review... wild animal neighbors!! yes, please!! having just read My Backyard Jungle: The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It, i was well aware of the problems wild animals face when they start to mov......more

This is an informative and entertaining look at urban wildlife. The chapter titles read like headlines, "The Coyote in the Sub Shop," is one example. Each chapter features a different animal in a different city from around the world. There is a balance of facts presented about how the animal's habit......more

This worked particularly well as a read aloud, hooking students with a high-interest topic. I especially liked the chapter on the mountain lions. It starts out telling an episode in Santa Monica and then looks more critically at what brings lions to urban areas (cause-effect structure) and then how......more

Confession time: I thought this was going to be a book for adult when I put it on hold at the library. I was whipping through the catalog, picking books by title, and didn't look very closely at the details. I felt a bit silly when I picked it up! But this book is actually really well written and is......more

3.75⭐......more