press annick RUNNING WILD AWESOME ANIMALS IN MOTION WRITTEN BY GALADRIEL WATSON ART BY SAMANTHA DIXON toronto berkeley
INTRODUCTION MARVELOUS MOTION May the Force Be Mostly with You CHAPTER ONE LAND CROSSINGS Walking Running and Hopping Slow-Mo Mover The Fastest by Far Nonstop Hop CHAPTER TWO KEEPING A LOW PROFILE Crawling Life on a Leaf Slimy Slippery and Stuck Weaving Ways to Move Shape-Shifter CHAPTER THREE GOING UP Climbing Swinging and Jumping Go Gecko Go It’s Swing-Time A Bounding Bloodsucker CHAPTER FOUR STAYING SKY-HIGH Gliding Flapping and Hovering Surfing the Wind A V-ery Great Way to Fly A Pro at Staying Put CHAPTER FIVE NO SINKING ALLOWED Rowing Walking on Water and Staying Buoyant Whirl Twirl and Swirl Water Wizard Big Mouth Bigger Liver CHAPTER SIX UNDERWATER EXPERTS Undulating Using Hydrofoils and Shooting with Jet Propulsion Functional Flowy Fins Flying Through Water The Spaceship of the Sea CONCLUSION THE NEXT STEP SELECT SOURCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 61 62
