Presents an alphabet of things related to spiny animals from A for ant, food for echidnas, to Z for zooplankton, which contains sea urchin eggs.

Spiny animals introduce the numbers from one to ten.

A photo-illustrated look at the porcupine's habitat, physical characteristics, and defenses from predators.

Presents a look at the habitat, physical characteristics, and defenses of the spiny echidna, and includes photographs.

These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).

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