Little Otter Learns To Swim

In this endearing and beautifully illustrated picture book, a baby river otter learns to swim, dive, and play in her natural habitat. Encouraged by her mother, the little otter soon sets out to explore on her own, quickly learning to escape shoreline predators and to find her way back to the security of home. From children’s author Artie Knapp and wildlife artist Guy Hobbs, Little Otter Learns to Swim is an entertaining and colorful tale for ages four and up. The story is followed by two pages of fun facts about river otters as well as information and resources from the River Otter Ecology Project.

A mother sea otter gives birth to her pup in the ocean. Then, as she floats on her back on the water’s surface, she lifts the little pup up from the water so it can feed and sleep while snuggled into her warm, furry chest. So begins the life of this marine mammal. In Sea Otter Pups, children will read how this little water baby receives its mother’s undivided attention until it has learned the swimming, diving, and hunting skills it needs to leave mom and go off to begin its adult life. The colorful interior spreads and gorgeous photos of sea otter pups are sure to delight emergent readers.

Little ones will soon settle down for bedtime just like Little Sea Otter as she snuggles with Mama in a cozy bed of sea kelp and calls good night to all her ocean friends—sea lions, sea snails, seagulls, seals, and sea urchins. They all reply. The gently rocking seas and Mama's loving arms soon send Little Sea Otter to dreamland.

Little Otter is scared to swim on her own. But with tips from her riverside friends, she grows in confidence, and is soon surprised by how far she has travelled all by herself! The duckling, kingfisher and toad all share their stories about learning to swim, fly and hop, and Little Otter realises every creature has to start somewhere. A story of resilience and accepting support - Little Otter is scared at first, but she keeps on trying, and succeeds in the end, making friends along the way.

Early morning at low tide, three little otters were led by their mother over the rocks and over the seaweed to the shoreline. It is time now for your swimming lesson, she said. You'll love swimming. But the little otters are not so certain, and as their mother starts to pick them up one by one, the littlest escapes. He suns himself on a rock, and falls asleep until he hears his family whistling. Water has surrounded his rock and now he must make a decision...

A heart-warming, rhyming story about a little otter called Oliver, written by bestselling poet Pam Ayres, author of The Last Hedgehog. Come on down to the riverbank, and discover a wild and wonderful world . . . Oliver the otter is happy enough living alone, swimming or scampering along the twisty-rooted waterways. Until one day, among the green rushes, he meets an otter called Ottilie – and his life changes forever. Written in rhyme and beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Nicola O'Byrne, Pam Ayres's charming tale brings the natural world to enchanting life. With nature details interwoven throughout the story, and an information page at the end, including fun facts about otters. I am Oliver the Otter is the perfect gift for nature lovers of all ages.

Olivia is a little otter that doesn't know how to swim. In this story, she and her friends learn the valuable lesson to LOOK, LEAVE, and ASK whenever they are around water and, above all else, NEVER SWIM ALONE! This will be a valuable tool for parents to use in helping make sure their child knows how to be safe around water.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Little Joe Otter" by Thornton Waldo Burgess. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.