A Book of Snakes
by Dorothy Childs Hogner Author, Nils Hogner Illustrator
A beautifully written book explaining what snakes are, where they live, what they feed on, how they breed, grow and cope with enemies. It is also a guide to some of the commoner kinds of snakes, both harmless and poisonous. Illustrated throughout with clear black and white drawings.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- Print Status
- Out of Print
- Lessons
- 35
- Pages
- 101
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 5th
- Publisher
- Thomas Y. Crowell Company New York
- Copyright
- 1966
Lessons
- 1 The snake at home, p1
- 2 What is a snake? p2
- 3 A snake on the outside, p3
- 4 A snake on the inside, p4
- 5 What snakes eat, p10
- 6 How snakes are born, p12
- 7 Growing up, p14
- 8 Harmless snakes, p17
- 9 Garter snakes or striped snakes, p17
- 10 Water snakes, p21
- 11 Racers, p 26
- 12 Indigo snake, p 31
- 13 Rat snakes, p32
- 14 Bullsnakes, p38
- 15 Kingsnakes, p 43
- 16 Scarlet snake, p50
- 17 Hognose snake, p 51
- 18 Brown snakes, p 56
- 19 Green snakes, p57
- 20 Ringneck snakes, p 59
- 21 Worm snakes, or blind snakes p61
- 22 Rubber boa, p62
- 23 Poisonous Snakes, p65
- 24 Pit vipers, p65
- 25 Rattlesnakes p68
- 26 Water moccasin or cottonmouth p78
- 27 Copperhead, p82
- 28 Coral snake or Harlequin snake p85
- 29 Rear fanged snakes p88
- 30 Glass snake, or hoop snake, p89
- 31 Snake "charmer", p 91
- 32 Relatives of snakes, p 91
- 33 Enemies of snakes, p93
- 34 Snakebite - What to do? p 94
- 35 Snake handling, p96
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