Fun Reptile Facts for Kids 9-12

By Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson

Fun facts for kids who like reptiles!

Astonishing and just plain weird facts with explanations about one of the world's strangest group of creatures, the reptiles. Fascinating and fun for anyone who has a reptile pet, wants one, or is just curious about these odd, ancient and mysterious animals.

This lively nonfict

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crimson Hill Books
• Release date: Sep 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781990291371

Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson

Jacquelyn Johnson writes books for curious and creative kids ages 8 to 12. This includes the lively Fun Animal Facts for Kids Series about animals, pets and the natural world. She also writes the Morley Stories Series of novels for girls 10 to 13.Jacquelyn is also a former teacher, college and university lecturer. She has taught English as a Second Language to children and teenagers in South Korea and journalism to university students in South Dakota and Ontario.

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Fun Reptile Facts for Kids 9 - 12

Fun Animal Facts for Kids Book 4

Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson

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First edition, October 2016.

Second edition, January 2021.

Third edition, January 2024.

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Jacquelyn Elnor Johnson

Fun Reptile Facts for Kids 9-12

Description: Crimson Hill Books trade eBook edition | Nova Scotia, Canada

ISBN: 978-1-990291-37-1 (eBook - Ingram)

BISAC: JNF003190 Juvenile Nonfiction: Animals - Reptiles & Amphibians | JNF003170 Juvenile Nonfiction: Animals - Pets | JNF051150 Juvenile Nonfiction: Science & Nature - Zoology

THEMA: PSVF - Zoology: amphibians & reptiles (herpetology) | WNGS - Reptiles & amphibians as pets | YNNM - Children’s / Teenage general interest: Reptiles & amphibians

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This is a chameleon. There are about 200 known types of chameleons in the world today.

This iguana has traded his freedom to live a lazy life with plenty of free food at a zoo. If you were an iguana, do you think you’d want to live in a zoo, or have a wild life?

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This colorful wild iguana is basking on a rock. Basking means warming up your body in the sunlight. Or, for pet lizards, under a heat lamp.

This is another kind of wild iguana.

Have you ever seen this guy?

Have you ever seen a strange-looking creature like this guy? Maybe at a zoo? Or when you were on vacation?

If not, but I showed you a picture of just their face, would you guess that this is a fish?

Though it does have a fishy-looking face, one way you can tell that this animal is not a fish is there are eyelids. That’s something fish don’t have.

And there are some other clues that this creature lives on land.

Can you spot them?

One is that it has nostrils. Nostrils are nose openings. This means it breathes air, just like people do.

Although this animal has scales, its skin is dry and cool, not wet and slippery like a fish’s skin.

It has a triangle-shaped head. That’s another important clue that tells you it must be either a snake or a lizard.

This wildly colorful creature is an iguana.  Their name sounds like this: eee-gwaugh-naa. Iguanas are one type of lizard.

All lizards are reptiles.

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