The Giant Panda: Hope for Tomorrow (Young Readers' Series)

Books in the Young Readers' Series are attractively illustrated intermediate classroom readers. They enlarge children's reading vocabulary while encouraging an appreciation of nature and wildlife. Naturalistic full-color illustrations complement every page of text, and a glossary at the back of each book defines words in the text that are likely to be new to young readers. The scene of this volume's absorbing narrative is a modern panda research and rescue center in China. It's the story of a little girl named Ming Chi, a mother panda named Ping-Ping, and her lost cub. As children read this dramatic story, they also learn facts about giant pandas--what they eat, how they live, how they nurture their young, and more. (Grades 2-4; Ages 7-9)