The Nature Kid's Guide to Aardvarks

Whoosh! Dirt flies as something vanishes underground in two minutes, sealing the tunnel behind it. It's an aardvark, and it digs faster than a team of people with shovels.

If your child thinks aardvarks are just a funny word at the front of the dictionary, this book is about to change everything. A single aardvark eats 50,000 bugs in one night, walks ten miles through the African dark, and does it all on skin so tough that soldier ants and sharp thorns cannot break through. Its nostrils snap shut like tiny doors to keep biting ants out while it eats. When an old burrow is abandoned, warthogs, porcupines, and hyenas all move in. There is even an underground fruit called the aardvark cucumber that cannot spread its seeds without one. Every page delivers something your child will want to run and share.

"The Nature Kid's Guide to Aardvarks" is written for curious kids ages 7-12 who want to know the real story behind one of Africa's most mysterious night hunters. How does an animal with almost no front teeth eat 50,000 insects in one sitting? Why do dozens of other animals depend on aardvarks just to have a place to sleep? What makes aardvarks the only surviving member of their entire animal family on Earth? Your child will find out, and they will never scroll past an aardvark video the same way again.

Short sentences and surprising facts build reading confidence while keeping even older kids hooked from first page to last. Chapters cover everything from digging, hunting, and night roaming to aardvark cubs, ancient fossils, and the strange underground world these animals help create.

A book for every kid who has ever seen an aardvark and thought - wait, is that even a real animal?

Aardvarks have barely changed in millions of years because they never needed to. They are out there right now, somewhere in the African dark, digging and sniffing and doing exactly what they have always done. That is the kind of wonder that sticks.

Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Your child is next!