"Simple text and full-color photographs provide a brief introduction to California sea lions"--Provided by publisher.

"Describes the characteristics, habitat, behavior, life cycle, and threats to lions living in the wild of Africa"--

Astro, an orphaned, endangered Steller sea lion, was found and then raised at the Marine Mammal Center in California. When released, he kept swimming back to the Center, just like a lost dog finding his way home. Readers follow Astro through some of his travels that have now taken him across the U.S. to his current home at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut. Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.

Contains facts about lions and tigers, comparing such aspects as their sizes, brain structure, and abilities.

In Africa in the Masis Mara National Reserve, filmmakers Keith Scholey and Amanda Barrett follow the lives of a lion cub with a weak and injured mother and a cheetah with five newborn cubs.