Animals have all kinds of coverings. Some animals are soft while others have hard scales. Through easy text and colorful images showing a variety of animals, beginning readers discover why animals have the skin they do and what they would feel like to the touch. Animal Skins looks at the hairless, scaly, spiky, slimy, soft, fluffy, spotted, and striped animals of our world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.