Offers fifty unique abilities or strange behaviors from different animals, such as the giant squid who passes food through its brain before getting to the stomach, and the horned lizard who can shoot blood from its eyes. Includes colorful illustrations of each animal.
Provides insight to the hardships incurred by those who endured the two-thousand-mile journey across the plains, mountains, deserts, and rivers from Missouri to California and Oregon during the mid-1800s.
