Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf (Hardcover, Bound for Schools & Libraries ed.)

We all "leave the nest" eventually, and animals do, too. Here we follow different creatures from all sorts of environments as they leave home and venture off to make their own place in the natural world. Some walk (jaguars), some crawl (crabs), some swim (sharks). Some leave as soon as they're born (salamanders), and others leave after several years (elephants). Albatrosses fly across oceans while hedgehogs walk only a short distance away. And songbirds even come back.

Sneed B. Collard III presents a variety of living things on land, in water, and in the air to show how, when, and why baby animals leave. Joan Dunning's bright and lively watercolors deftly portray these creatures breaking the bounds of home to find their own place in the natural world.