Books, magazines and creepy crawlies

Live parrots, spiders, and reptiles at the libraries-- Carolyn Newell’s Exotics of the Rainforest presentations recently featured all of those creatures. More than just looking at these animals, Newell and her assistant got up close and personal, passed around the animals for the kids to look at, in come cases, handle the creatures. These animals are beautiful, but some are endangered. To learn more about endangered creatures, here are some websites for children to enjoy: http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Animals/ ,

http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/rainfor/default.htm,, and www.pandasinternational.org We also have lots of colorful, informative, up-to-date books on endangered animals at all three Santa Fe Public Libraries. Here’s a list of forty-one endangered plants and animals of New Mexico on the site http://www.endangeredspecie.com/states/nm.htm. This site also includes information about conservation efforts and endangered species organizations that are dedicated to saving and preserving the world's most endangered wildlife and plant life.

By TT at Southside