Classification: Focus on: Amphibians shows children how to identify and group amphibians according to their characteristics. It answers questions such as what is an amphibian? Where do amphibians live? What do amphibians eat? And how do amphibians keep cool? Along with many others.

The book looks at amphibians from frogs and toads to newts and salamanders and their young, as well as some more unusual amphibians such as caecilians and axolotls. It also offers advice on keeping amphibians as pets.

The book also contains a useful scale to demonstrate the size of many amphibians in comparison to a human hand, along with a topic web, a glossary and some suggestions for extension activities.

Other titles in the series include Classification: Focus on: Birds, Classification: Focus on: Insects, Classification: Focus on: Reptiles, Classification: Focus on: Mammals and Classification: Focus on: Fish.

This book features in the following series: Animals, Classification Series, Classification-Focus On .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

The author, Stephen Savage, is a biologist, natural history lecturer and Associate Member of the

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What a difference!
• 2: Where amphibians live
• 3: Catching a meal
• 4: Hot and cold
• 5: Getting around
• 6: Amphibian young
• 7: Pet amphibians
• 8: Unusual amphibians
• 9: Scale of amphibians
• 10: Topic web and activities
• 11: Glossary and Find out more