The Best Mammal Books for Kids

Sort whales, deer, elephants, birds, fish, and people by the traits that make a mammal a mammal.

Grizzly cubs, mouse pinkies, otter pups, and other baby mammals need food, shelter, care, and time to grow.

Twenty-one mammals step into witty poems and exuberant paintings by Douglas Florian.

A newborn elephant learns to use her trunk, communicate with the herd, and survive on the African savanna.

Meet the largest animal on Earth through comparisons to milk bottles, trucks, cars, and hippos.

Lemur stink fights, whale earwax, and other odd solutions reveal how mammal adaptations work.

Field scientist Caitlin O’Connell follows a puzzling clue and discovers that elephants can listen through their limbs.

Travel through the Cenozoic Era as monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals inherit a post-dinosaur world.

Do all mammals live on land? Is a mouse the smallest? Make a guess, then flip the page for the evidence.

From a white-footed deermouse to an American bison, explore where mammals live and what they eat.