Description
Steve Parish Kids Story Book Series: Spiky Echidna (2005) by Rebecca Johnson – Photos by Steve Parish
There are 32 books in the series – collect them all!
In Spiky Echidna, a baby echidna gets a piece of wire caught in between his spines. It takes a friendly possum to pull it out for him.
The short-beaked echidna is a mammal called a monotreme, which means “one hole”.
It has one vent through which everything passes, including eggs and waste matter. Its young hatch from a leathery-shelled egg then stays in the small, backward-facing pouch until its spines develop. If it is threatened, an echidna will roll up into a spiky ball on hard ground or dig quickly into soft ground.
Text Level: Emergent and newly independent readers
Dimensions: 21 x 15 x 0.3cm
Pages: 24
Age: 3-6