A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring with a Microscope (Dover Science For Kids)

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Within every drop of pond water lurks an invisible world, alive with an amazing variety of microscopic animals. And with the help of this book and a microscope, you can bring these tiny creatures into focus and discover the ways in which they live.
You’ll trace the path of a blob-like amoeba as it stretches out its pseudopods to hunt and gobble up its prey, and you’ll see the life-or-death water ballet of a slipper-shaped paramecium as it swims away from its mortal enemy, the pincushion-shaped suctorian. You’ll also meet the euglena, classified as both plant and animal; the rotifer, a creature with two wheels of whirling hairlike projections that help it move by squeezing in and out like an accordion; and the incredible hydra, a fearsome bully that constantly threatens other small animals with its crown of grasping tentacles.
With this book, your key to the world of single-celled organisms, you’ll learn fascinating lessons about how these strange animals eat, reproduce, and defend themselves. Enter their microscopic domain and see for yourself!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; Dover Children’s Science Books edition (August 13, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 64 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486403815
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486403816
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 6 – 10 years, from customers
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 – 8
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.25 x 9 inches