Wild Animal Baby Stories for your Wild Babies

The National Wildlife’s mission is to educate, inspire and assist individuals and organizations of diverse cultures to conserve wildlife and other natural resources and to protect the Earth’s environment in order to achieve a peaceful, equitable and sustainable future.

Boy, and I just thought this was a cute book!

The above statement was taken from the “Wild Animal Baby” March 2001 edition of The National Wildlife’s publication for children. If you have ever heard of “Baby Bug” than you are already familiar with the type of publication this is. If not, let me explain.

Description

“Wild Animal Baby” is a book that has ten issues published per year. Children aged 1-3 will benefit the most from this book, which is great for my family since I have a one year old and an almost three year old.

Just like a regular magazine, “Wild Animal Baby” consists of different stories and activities. Although this book closely resembles the book “Baby Bug” and is set up the same way, it is actually the toddler version of “Ranger Rick”. The stories all revolve around animals and are no longer than four pages long.

However, unlike, a magazine, you don’t have to worry about your child tearing the pages. The book is made with a lightweight yet durable cardstock paper. This makes it perfect for your young children because although with time and wear the pages will bend, they will not rip easily. We still have our Baby Bug issues from over a year ago and they are in great shape.

Why I Choose This Book For My Children

Most children, like many adults, have a special connection with animals. Animals are used for companionship and mental health for the elderly, and I feel that they can be a very large part of learning for a child.

My children both knew how to say our cat’s name before they could say “Mama” or “Dada”. They also learned to say “Meow” before they learned how to say “Hello”. They have learned how to treat pets correctly and how to care for them, which I hope will carry over into how they treat their peers and care for themselves.

This is what this book is centered around, using animals as fun education for young children. Not only animal education is taught, but also shapes, colors, fine and gross motor skills, and speech.

Hard to believe all of that is included in a twenty four-page, five story publication for children?

Here are a few examples of what I mean:

Zudzee’s Zoo
On a page with four animals, the author asks the child to point out the kangaroo. This allows your child to see the differences between the animals gives you a chance to teach him or her about each one.

Story titled “The Rabbit”:
Can you make a rabbit with two ears so very long? (Picture of child with fingers making ears)
And let him hop and hop about on legs so small and strong? (Picture of child hand making hopping gesture)

Wild Shapes
A felt figure of a sheep is shown on one page; while on the other there are three shapes in the same color felt as what the sheep’s body parts are made with. Can the child find the shapes that make up the body parts?

Reba the Rabbit
Using real photos of rabbits, this story gives children an insight to a day in the life of a rabbit.


There is a small suggested activity at the end of the magazine and a hidden character that your older toddler will enjoy finding throughout each publication. Also included in each issue is a password that will take you into a new activity each month at The NWF website.

Why Did I Choose This as My National Bedtime Story?

I read these publications to my children every night while they are in their bath. Since it is geared toward both of them they both equally delight in seeing the animals and hearing about where the rabbits like to live or eat, what kittens like to play with, or what a wombat likes to do (see, even you can learn from this book!).

We use our bath animals to incorporate the stories into bath time. There are many things to point out and see in the book, which winds my children down and induces little sweet dreams filled with little baby animals.

I also thought this was quite fitting since it involves a national foundation, The National Wildlife Foundation. I hope that even my small contribution of purchasing this subscription will help my children to enjoy nature and wildlife in their years to come.

To learn more about this publication or The National Wildlife Foundation please visit www.nwf.org. You can purchase Wild Animal Baby for $19.95 a year. Just send a check or money order to:

Wild Animal Baby
P.O. Box 2038
Harlan, IA 51593-0017
Or Call
1-800-611-1599


This was a write off celebrating the National Bedtime Story Month hosted by Phineaskc and AngelaBar. Please visit the other write off participants and last but not least…please read to a child today! You will be opening doors of imagination for a young mind.

Write off participants:

Angela9049, Angelabar, Bpotter1, Caines, Cbgresh, Chrisceb, CJsmommy, ColleenMF, CyndiCM, Dandj, DarkMistress, Daxman, Debbie26, Dr_Steph, Ed_grover, Gina Hill, Gracef, Hawgwyld, Hhassell99, Jankp, Jenninca, Jo.com, Jodycw, KateTPZ, KCC8988, KCFemme, KMINER, Lisa_J, Lisalexx, Magenta321, Melkinwa, Merlot, Mimi369, Mom2Daniel, Mom2TyZick, NWinston, Phineaskc, Prepoia, ProEditor, Quasar, Redlass, Robinmichele, Rosieroon, Saxguy, Sherrylee, Staceys1, Tchoate, Wardukeky, Willetfk

Thank you for reading!