If you saw a pangolin you might say it looked like a pine cone with legs and a tail. A pangolin is one of the animals that is protected by armor. It's covered with scales like the scales on a pine...
New skins for old
A shiny garter snake wiggles through the grass. Its wrinkled old skin hangs from the tip of its tail. The snake comes to some rocks. It slides between them. The old skin catches on one of the rocks....
Meet the reptiles
You can always tell a turtle by its shell. A box turtle has a high, round shell that it can close up like a box. A map turtle has a wide, flat shell with bumpy edges. A soft-shelled turtle's shell...
A “star” with a tail
> Night after night, a long, shining streak hung in the sky. It looked > like a big, bright star with a glowing tail. Each night it seemed to > grow bigger and brighter. People were terrified. "It's...
The Cow-Tail Switch
> a West African folk tale > > from The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories by Harold > Courlander and George Herzog > > Near the edge of the Liberian rain forest, on a hill > >...
The Elephant
by Hilaire Belloc When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So LARGE a trunk before. Elephants walking Along the trails Are holding hands By...
Ducks’ Ditty
by Kenneth Grahame All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all! Ducks' tails, drakes' tails, Yellow feet a-quiver, Yellow bills all out of sight Busy in...
Why the Bear Has a Stumpy Tail
a Norwegian folk tale by P. C. Asbjbrnsen and J. Moe adapted from the translation by G. W. Dasent One winter day, the Bear met the Fox, who was slinking along with a string of fish he had stolen. ...
Little Bo-Peep
> Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; > > Leave them alone, and they'll come home, > > And bring their tails behind them. > > Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, > ...