Lucy has written, produced and presented natural history programmes for BBC, PBS, Animal Planet and. Lucy Cooke is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and best-selling author with a Masters in zoology from Oxford university (where she was tutored by Richard Dawkins).

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Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier Lucy Cooke, Contributor National Geographic explorer, award-winning TV producer & presenter, best-selling author of A LITTLE BOOK OF SLOTH Nov 5, 2010, 12:54 PM EDT Updated This post was published on the now-closed HuffPost Contributor platform.

Little Book of Sloth Philosophy : How to Live Your Best Sloth Life - by. As fascinating as all of these facts are, I think the main attraction to this book, at least for kids, will be the adorable photographs of Buttercup, Wally, Honey, Sunshine, Sammy, Velcro and the other cute sloths that fill these pages with their cuddly personalities and sweet smiles.īelow are some of Lucy Cooke's photographs from 'A Little Book of Sloth.' Life in the Sloth Lane : Slow Down and Smell the Hibiscus - by Lucy Cooke. Because it takes them four weeks to digest a meal, they need to take it easy to stay free from painful indigestion.

Cooke informs us that in the jungle, they eat slightly toxic leaves which don’t give them much energy. I also didn’t know that sloths are slow and slothful due to their diet.

Consequently, sloths, like reptiles, need to bask in the sun in order to warm up. A Little Book of Sloth ebook By Lucy Cooke. Filled with sweet photographs that are guaranteed to make even a curmudgeon smile, you’ll learn fascinating facts about the Bradypus or three-fingered sloth with their Mona Lisa smiles and their two-fingered cousins, the Choloepus who, according to the author, look “like a cross between a Wookie and a pig.” One of the things I learned from this book about these adorable creatures is that sloths, unlike other mammals, can not regulate their body temperature. If you’re not yet a member of the Sloth Appreciation Society, you will be after reading this adorable non-fiction book by Lucy Cooke that immerses readers in the world of orphaned and injured sloths.

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