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Loading... Seababy: A Little Otter Returns Home (edition 2012)by Tim Megarry, Jon Van Zyle (Illustrator), Tim Megarry (Author)
Work InformationSeababy: A Little Otter Returns Home by Ellen Levine
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. NOT what I was expecting from the cover! The baby otter is separated from his mother, picked up by wildlife rescuer scientists, put in with an adoptive mother, and eventually returned to the ocean, but never reunited with his own mother. Emotionally, this was Dumbo all over again. Gorgeous illustrations, though, and some nice animal facts, like how otters crack open clam, oyster, and crab shells on rocks to get the meat out. A baby sea otter is separated from his mother in a storm, then rescued by humans and placed in a rehabilitation center where an adoptive mom teaches the baby the skills needed to feed himself. Ending with his ocean release, he is last seen tethered in seaweed and fast asleep among a group of other otters. A good balance between naturalism and anthropomorphism. no reviews | add a review
A baby sea otter, separated from his mother by a storm, is rescued by a human who takes him to the Monterey Bay Aquarium to recover and learn how to take care of himself. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Personal reflection: At first I was very sad when the baby otter got separated but realized that it was going to have a good life in the zoo. I was hoping that the baby was going to be reunited with it's mother at the end of the story but realize that that probably does not happen in reality.
Class use: This could help teach students how zoos work, and how they go about rehabilitating animals by taking them in from the wild to just put them back. It could also be used to teach students about otters; what they eat, how they sleep and live. ( )