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Wiggling Worms at Work
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Explains how earthworms eat, move, and reproduce and how they help plants to grow.
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The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
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Wendy Pfeffer, Jesse Reisch (Illustrator)
The beginning of winter is marked by the solstice, the shortest day of the year. Long ago, people grew afraid when each day had fewer hours of sunshine than the day before. Over time, they realized that one day each year the sun started moving toward them again. In lyrical prose and cozy illustrations, this book explains what the winter solstice ...
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A Log's Life
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Wendy Pfeffer, Robin Brickman (Illustrator)
After an oak tree falls in the forest, it has another life as home to a variety of creatures. As it decays over time, it provides food and shelter to porcupines, ants, mushrooms, salamanders, and many others, until it eventually turns into a mound of rich black earth. Very young children love spotting the animals as they learn about the life cycle ...
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From Seed to Pumpkin
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Wendy Pfeffer, James Graham Hale (Illustrator)
Pumpkins can be baked in a pie or carved into jack-o'-lanterns, and pumpkin seeds can be roasted for a healthy snack. But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin? Full color.
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We Gather Together: Celebrating the Harvest Season
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Wendy Pfeffer, Linda Bleck (Illustrator)
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From Tadpole to Frog
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A basic explanation of the life cycle of frogs, with a special emphasis on the metamorphosis from tadpole to bullfrog. Illustrated with watercolor drawings.
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Songs of the Women Trouveres
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Eglal Doss-Quinby (Editor), Joan Tasker Grimbert (Editor), Wendy Pfeffer (Editor)
This anthology brings together the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries. It includes the Old French texts of 75 compositions, extant music for 18 monophonic songs and 19 polyphonic motets, and an introduction.
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Marta's Magnets
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Wendy Pfeffer, Gail Piazza (Illustrator)
Marta's sister Rosa calls her magnet collection junk, but Marta's magnets help her make friends in her new home and help her retrieve a lost key for Rosa's new friend.
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Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws
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Wendy Pfeffer
Describes how dolphins communicate with each other in squeaks, whistles, and pops.
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Three Medieval Views of Women: La Contenance Des Fames, "Le Bien Des Fames," "Le Blasme Des Fames"
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Gloria K Fiero, Wendy Pfeffer (Editor), Mathe Allain (Editor)
This bilingual edition of three lively and amusing French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices of women and a third that lists women's virtues. The verses, translated here into English for the first time, provide significant insights into the role of women in the Middle Ages ...
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Sounds All Around
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"Honk!" "Splash!" "Meow!" "Achoo!" Sounds are all around us. A whale uses them to find her baby, a bat uses sound to find its way in the dark, and humans use sound to communicate. These issues are looked at in this children's book, as well as how sounds are made.
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Thunder and Lightning
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Wendy Pfeffer
Kids are fascinated with storms. Clouds roll in, the wind blusters, suddenly there are flashes of lightning, and claps of thunder. Young meteorologists will learn what causes lightning and thunder, how rain falls from the clouds, the different types of lightning, why they see lightning before they hear thunder, and much more. Children will ...
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Many Ways to Be a Soldier
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Wendy Pfeffer, Elaine Verstraete (Illustrator)
The men of Sites Point, New Jersey (now called Beesley's Point) have all left town to fight the British. Rem Goldin is too young to join the men, but old enough to want to fight. One day, he sees a British ship approaching. Can he find a way to save the people of Sites Point?
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A New Beginning: Celebrating the Spring Equinox
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Wendy Pfeffer, Linda Bleck (Illustrator)
The spring equinox signals the time of year when the days are getting longer, the growing season has begun, and animals give birth to their young. With accessible, lyrical prose and vibrant illustrations, this book explains the science behind spring and shows how the annual arebirtha of Earth has been celebrated by various cultures throughout the ...
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Mute Swans
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Wendy Pfeffer
Spring has arrived at Swan Lake and so have the swans. Year after year, the same pure-white pair carefully builds anest and raises its young, called cygnets, painstakingly teaching them how to fly. The family stays until the weather turns coll, then it joins other groups of white swans migrating to warmer waters. Full-color photos.
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Firefly at Stonybrook Farm
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Wendy Pfeffer, Larry Mikec (Illustrator)
Firefly crawls out of the ground and flies into the night sky. Can he use his flashing light to attract a mate? And what will happen when a little girl tries to catch him?
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The Big Flood
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Illustrated by Vanessa Lubach Patti Brandon lives on a soybean farm near the Mississippi River with her parents, grandfather, dog Sam, and pet goat, Molly. When the great flood of 1993 strikes, Patti and her family, neighbors, and complete strangers rally together to keep the river at bay. Evocative illustrations bring the drama to life. A section ...
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Firefly at Stony Brook Farm
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In the backyard of the big white house on Stonybrook Farm, Firefly crawls out of the ground and flies into the night sky. He joins other fireflies in the busy backyard. Can he use his flashing light to attract a mate? And what will happen when a little girl tries to catch him?
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Proverbs in Medieval Occitan Literature
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Professor Wendy Pfeffer
Focusing on the 12th and 13th centuries, this work analyses the use of proverbial materials in the literature of southern France. The author asserts the relevance of proverbs in troubadour literature for what they reveal about troubadour training and audiences, and the mentality of Southern France.
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Firefly at Stonybrook Farm
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Firefly crawls out of the ground and flies into the night sky. Can he use his flashing light to attract a mate? And what will happen when a little girl tries to catch him?
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Polar Bears
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Deep in her winter den near the North Pole, a polar bear gives birth to two helpless, furless, toothless cubs. By spring, each cub has grown thick white fur, sharp claws and teeth. Following their mother, the cubs venture out into their snowy world, learning how to hunt and how to protect themselves. By the next spring, they will be fully grown ...
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Arctic Wolves
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Dennis Brindell Fradin, Wendy Pfeffer, Tom Newsom (Illustrator)
A biography of the young English girl who made a major fossil discovery at age eleven and grew up to be one of the world's foremost fossil hunters.
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Duck Grows Up
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Wendy Pfeffer, Taylor Oughton (Illustrator)
Each of these libraries of six delightful titles was created especially to help children understand and appreciate the beauty of the natural world. Each book, which has been written and illustrated by award-winning authors and artists, tells the story of an animal in its natural environment. Accurate in detail and rich in storytelling tradition, ...
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Popcorn Park Zoo: A Photo Essay
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Wendy Pfeffer, J Gerard Smith (Photographer)
Describes the Popcorn Park Zoo in New Jersey, which rescues and cares for animals that are sick, old, abused, or about to be destroyed.
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Hot Deserts
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Wendy Pfeffer
It is never too early to instill in children an appreciation of the enormous and wondrous diversity of life on our planet. From Antarctic Icy Waters and Arctic Frozen Reaches to Deep Oceans, High Mountains, and Hot Deserts, this strikingly photographed series takes young readers to the far reaches of the Earth. Using clear, concise language ...
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