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by nietzsche on February 3, 2010
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If any woud like to recommend any venom/venomous snake related reading material, I would really appreciate it. I am most interested in articles vs books.
Thank you,
Kelly
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by Irishviper on February 3, 2010
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Luarance Klauber's abridged addition is still pretty good. He was way a head of his time dealing with observations and additudes towards snakes.
Alan
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by CharlieO on February 3, 2010
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I also would be interested in reading material, but I've got a little twist...
I need to find books suitable to read a kindergartener. My youngest son is fascinated with snakes and is keenly interested in any information he can get his hands on. I've found a few things to read to him, but even the kids books I've found are geared towards older children (middle school aged).
If anyone has any info on good books for 5-7 yr olds, I'd love to get a response.
Charlie
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by Cro on February 3, 2010
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Charlie, it is tough to find reptile books for young kids, but there are a few of them out there.
I would suggest you look on Amazon.com and search snakes or reptiles under the book section. Then sort the list by lowest price first.
That will help you find more of the kids books, as they are usually the least expensve.
I would also suggest that you consider books like Chris Mattison's book "Snake" which is available used for $1.00 plus $3.99 shipping in good used condition. For $4.00 you will get a book with great large photos, and large print, that you son can grow into. It is a simple enough book for you to read to him now, but, also something he will enjoy reading himself when the time comes.
Check it out at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0756613655/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265252455&sr=1-1&condition=used
Due to the resent decrease in book prices, there are hundreds of very inexpensive books you will find there.
Best Regards
John Z
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by AquaHerp on February 4, 2010
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Anything by Hoser is suitable for a kindergartener. HA! I Kill me!
Seriously, there are a couple of books floating around out there. I have seen a children's book on rattlesnakes and my old favorite- The Golden Book of Reptiles and Amphibians. I grew up on that and still have a copy.
DH
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by CharlieO on February 5, 2010
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Thank you John and Doug!
:) Doug, I've got the golden book as well and it's been passed down to my son. He's gotten a real kick out of it!
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by FSB on February 5, 2010
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I have actually found a lot of interesting children's books on a variety of topics in the juvenile section of the local library. One in particular that I just checked out is called "Rattlesnake Dance" by Jennifer Owings Dewey. It's sort of an autobiography - Dewey grew up on a ranch in New Mexico and the book begins with her account of being bitten on the hand at age nine by a Prairie while climbing up some rocks. She later gives a firsthand account of the Hopi Indian snake dance that her father took her to see at age ten. The book is filled with accurate rattlesnake facts and a lot of interesting American Indian folklore about them. Dewey also did all of the illustrations herself, which are good to excellent, and the book is not condescending [a quality which I detest in children's books]. One of my favorite books that I had when I was really little is called Crictor - a fanciful tale of a friendly boa constrictor who plays jump rope with children and foils a burglary. It is wildly inaccurate from a scientific standpoint, but funny and imaginative and at least has a snake in a positive role, for once. I used to love the Golden Guide too.
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by asud on February 7, 2010
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kelly-
for articles, i like using bibliomania - http://www.herplit.com/cgi-bin/csearch.cgi - they've got a newer url but this, the old one, actually works better for keyword searches.
also, have you ever looked at anthology-type publications like biology of the vipers, biology of the pit vipers or the stuff done by joseph t. collins, richard siegel et al.? (the latter aren't solely venomous, but fascinating nonetheless.) articles per se can be harder to obtain through libraries while these 'books'--really just compilations of articles--you can get via interlibrary loan pretty fast. the extensive, but targeted works cited parts of these are a great jumping off point for other stuff.
i'm not sure how much it costs for online access to asih or ssar databases, but you may want to check stuff like that out, too. maybe toxicon is online, but i'm not positive...
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by FSB on February 7, 2010
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Kelly - Wolfgang Wuster's Bangor University site is a treasure trove of articles in pdf format... it's got one of those long, clunky urls, but if you google his name it'll come right up...
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