The Nature Kid’s Guide to Porcupines: A Level 2 Reader for Curious Young Kids Who Love Porcupines! (The Nature Kid’s Guide to Animals! – Level 2 Readers)

Thwack! A curious dog shoves its nose at a round, spiky animal on the forest floor. One tail swing later, the dog has 50 quills in its face. It’s a porcupine, and everyone better stay back!

Porcupines are famous for their quills, but there’s so much more going on under those spikes. These remarkable animals have bright orange iron-coated teeth, can float on water like a tiny boat, and crave salt so badly they’ll gnaw on wooden signs and old bones to get it.

“The Nature Kid’s Guide to Porcupines” is written for curious kids ages 7 to 12 who want to know what makes these spiky animals so extraordinary. How do tiny barbed hooks make a single quill nearly impossible to remove? Why do porcupines strip whole trees of bark in winter and sometimes kill them? And how does a small fierce hunter called a fisher take down a porcupine in under 30 minutes?

Short sentences and surprising facts fill every page. Your child will discover that a porcupine can strip a whole tree bare in one winter and sometimes kill it, that one study found 35% of porcupines had healed broken bones from falling out of trees, and that porcupines make over a dozen sounds including screams, moans, and grunts. They’ll learn how a porcupine woos a mate by standing on its hind legs and waving its paws in the air, how great horned owls snatch them right off branches in the dark, and why a porcupine’s best defense is simply turning its back and waiting.

A book for every kid who thinks porcupines are the coolest animal in the forest.

Spiky armor, surprising secrets, and a whole book full of wild facts your child will want to share.

Thousands of young readers have explored the Nature Kids Guide series. Grab a copy, your kid is next!

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GYJ814D5
Publisher ‏ : ‎ LP Media Inc
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 8, 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8898181666
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.3 ounces
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 6 – 12 years
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.1 x 8.5 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ The Nature Kid’s Guide to Animals! – Level 2 Readers
Best Sellers Rank: #659,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #924 in Children’s Mammal Books (Books) #1,516 in Children’s Zoology Books (Books)
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