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Title details for Set Your Alarm, Sloth! by Jess Keating - Available

Set Your Alarm, Sloth!

More Advice for Troubled Animals from Dr. Glider

by Jess Keating
Pete Oswald
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Have fun learning about some odd but true animal facts with Dr. Sugar Glider and her patients!

Zoe Zebra is troubled. Why do flies crash into her? A visit from Dr. Glider can solve the mystery. Our gliding doctor also helps a sloth stay awake, a sneezing iguana, a leaderless clownfish, a lovesick egret, and many more creatures with some peculiar problems.

This hilarious and fun picture book by author and zoologist Jess Keating (Pink Is for Blobfish) and New York Times bestselling illustrator Pete Oswald (The Couch Potato) is packed with entertaining animal stories and unbelievable true facts on every page that are sure to fascinate curious young readers. Scientific vocabulary appears throughout each medical adventure, and there's a glossary and a list of species at the end.

And for more laughter and nonfiction fun, read about the weird but true problems among Dr. Glider's first group of patients in Eat Your Rocks, Croc!

  • Creators

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 21, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781338782011

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.1
    • Lexile® Measure: 650
    • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      September 1, 2021
      Dr. Glider travels around the world to advise her patients and instruct her readers. The bespectacled sugar glider introduced in Eat Your Rocks, Croc! (2020) dispenses more advice, fast facts, and interesting science concepts to 15 new patients here. The doctor's travels begin and end in Canada, but in between she dives into oceans, flies to Australia, climbs trees and even mountains, visits islands in southeast Asia, the Gal�pagos, nature reserves in Africa, and the seashore on Nantucket. Spread by spread, each animal is introduced with a given name and its geographical habitat before it poses a question that allows Dr. Glider to reveal a curious fact. The sloth is turning green; that's algae that grows on its back because it moves slowly and seldom. Blue dragons (a kind of sea slug called a nudibranch) eat the tentacles of the stinging man-of-war to make themselves venomous. The text is simple and short, fitted into speech bubbles. Each spread includes additional facts and concepts in boxes along the right. Keating has a knack for finding intriguing information and the skill to impart it with humor. Oswald's engaging illustrations feature creatures with expressive, anthropomorphic faces. Dr. Glider has been provided with wonderful accessories: a device for recording the kookaburra; earphones for hearing the infrasonic sounds of the okapi; a safari helmet for exploring the zebra's savanna. (This book was reviewed digitally.) Fans of the first book will be thrilled to encounter more fact-filled fun. (glossary, cast list) (Informational picture book. 6-9)

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Formats

  • OverDrive Read

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.1
  • Lexile® Measure:650
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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