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"Alligators and crocodiles are the world's largest reptiles and the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. Here is information about their different physical characteristics, and how they live, mate, and raise their young. Crocodilians have been around for millions of years and are now endangered."-...

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Main Author: Gibbons, Gail
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Holiday House, c2010.
Edition:1st ed.
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Alligators > Juvenile nonfiction.
Crocodiles > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:"Alligators and crocodiles are the world's largest reptiles and the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. Here is information about their different physical characteristics, and how they live, mate, and raise their young. Crocodilians have been around for millions of years and are now endangered."--Amazon.com.
Physical Description:32 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 27 cm.
Audience:004-008.
ISBN:9780823422340 (hardcover)
0823422348 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Gail Gibbons was born in 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois. She received a degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois. She got a job doing artwork for television shows in New York City. She was eventually offered a job creating art for a children's show, where some of the children asked her if she had ever considered doing a children's books. Her first book, Willy and His Wheel Wagon, was published in 1975. Since then she has written and illustrated more than 170 non-fiction books for children including Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests.

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