Extreme Pets!

Written by Jane Harrington

Narrated by Norman Dietz

Are you curious about slithery snakes, loungey lizards, spooky spiders, fuzzy ferrets, and freckled frogs? If so, this book is for you! Extreme Pets! introduces all the coolest creatures you've been wanting to know more about. You'll learn about corn snakes, leopard geckos, blue-tongued skinks, veiled chameleons, bearded dragons, green anoles, ferrets, hedgehogs, chinchillas, sugar gliders, rats, Madagascan hissing cockroaches, giant African millipedes, tarantulas, monarch butterflies, silkworm caterpillars, Chinese fire-bellied toads, red-eyed tree frogs, dumpy tree frogs, pac man frogs, American toads, tadpoles, and slugs. Jane Harrington's excellent guide to responsible ownership of an exotic pet-presented in kid-friendly language-is filled with everything you will need to know about proper care and feeding. Not all animals make good pets-and all animals deserve to be treated with respect and not neglect. Extreme Pets! is the perfect book for budding zoologists and their parents, and will help them make informed decisions about what kinds of critters might make a safe addition to their home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781470355111

Jane Harrington

A child of the Washington DC burbs, Jane grew up with two brothers and three sisters, a mom and a dad, a beagle named Charlie and a parakeet named Pudgie. Summers were spent submerged in the local swimming pool, and winter days waned in front of TV reruns of Laugh-In and The Twilight Zone. Despite many hardships (no computers, cell phones, DVDs or microwave popcorn, to name just a few) she reached adulthood in the late 1970s. By 1990 she had three daughters, to whom she'd read aloud the entire collection of children's books at the local public library. That's when she started writing. For almost twenty years, Jane's writing has been inspired by her three daughters. Their lively personalities regularly surface in her fiction. Meghan, her oldest daughter, held the spotlight in her first published short stories in Hopscotch Magazine. Her youngest, Lucy, was strikingly similar to the central character of her first published book, Lucy's (Completely Cool and Totally True) E-Journal. And though her "middlest" daughter, Emma, may not be just like Brady, her adventures and friends sparked Four Things My Geeky-Jock-of-a-Best-Friend Must Do In Europe, as well as the spin-off novel, My Best Friend, the Atlantic Ocean, and Other Great Bodies Standing Between Me and my Life with Giulio.   She loves to hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains, watch Washington Nationals baseball, and visit Ireland—the setting of her latest writing endeavor.