The Best Wildlife Books for Kids

A late walk into snowy woods, in near-total silence, on the chance that something out there answers.

A ski across still winter woods, with an entire animal kingdom awake in the dark beneath the snowpack.

Five noses, five tails, five sets of ears—each belonging to an animal that uses them in a completely different way.

Frogs photographed close enough to count the toe pads, mid-leap and mid-gulp.

Wild babies—bear cubs, fox kits, sea otter pups—shown doing the one thing their parents are teaching them.

An orphaned baby hippo, a 130-year-old tortoise, and a friendship no one at the sanctuary expected.

A red-tailed hawk builds a nest twelve stories above Fifth Avenue and refuses to leave.

Take the sea otters out of a kelp forest and watch, step by step, what happens next.

Turtles that outlasted the dinosaurs, breathe through unlikely places, and taste the world with their throats.

Seventy years without wolves in Yellowstone, and the surprising list of things that changed when they came back.

A young wolf, alone after losing his pack, crosses a thousand miles of mountain and highway looking for a home.

A researcher in the Namibian desert suspects elephants are hearing through their feet—and sets out to prove it.