Travel to one of the hottest places in the world, and discover the amazing animals who call the desert home. Meet the unique creatures of the Australian desert, from the sand goanna and red kangaroo, and find out just how these incredible creatures have adapted to survive in temperatures as high as 40 degrees!
Survival at 40°C Above is packed with fantastic illustrations which beautifully depict these animals and their desert habitat, this title will captivate, amaze and inform readers.
A former teacher, Debbie S. Miller has lived in the Arctic all her life. Her passion for nature inspired her to start writing nature books for young readers, which fuse gentle narrative arcs with incredible facts about the natural world.
Jon Van Zyle is a noted children's book illustrator with an equally strong passion for the natural world. He has worked on a number of illustrated children's titles. This is his first book for A & C Black.