Playing possum
(2020)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
PICTURE/STORIES/REINHARDT,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
DESCRIPTION
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781328782700, 1328782700 :, 1328782700, 9781328782700
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Possums play dead when threatened so Alfred, an unusually nervous possum, avoids attention and even friendship until he meets Sofia, an armadillo who curls into a ball when nervous. Includes facts about the unusual defense mechanisms of animals pictured in the book
AD520L
Decoding demand: 94 (very high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 76 (high) Structure demand: 75 (high)