The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-year-old giant tortoise named Mzee. When Owen was stranded after the December 2004 tsunami, villagers in Kenya worked tirelessly to rescue him. Then, to everyone's amazement, the orphaned hippo and the elderly tortoise adopted each other. Now they are inseparable, ...
Can you gallop like a horse?Can you strut like a rooster?Can you run like a dog?Can you spring like a cat?Can you soar like an eagle?Can you swing like a chimp?Can you flutter like a butterfly?Can you swim like a turtle?Then take a bow and smile: you twinkle, like a star!Then take a bow and shine: a star is what you are!
From two renowned pop-up masters comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved, extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign on Earth--brought to life in 35 thrilling 3-D pop-ups. Full color.
This is a collection of 14 poems about insects. Included are poems about mayflies, lice, fireflies, and honeybees, all of which were written to be read aloud in antiphonal voices, sometimes separate, sometimes together or overlapping. Fleischman evokes both humor and pathos in this innovative collection. Winner of the 1989 Newbery Medal.
More than 300 full-color photos and 90 carefully researched paintings highlight this fascinating, all-new look at dinosaurs. Includes the latest facts, field findings and theories as it reconstructs life in prehistoric times. Young Adult.
When Knut was born, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, he was no bigger than a snowball and unable to care for himself. His mother, a rescued East German circus bear, didn't know how to take care of Knut and rejected him. Knut would have died if it weren't for Thomas Dorflein, a zookeeper who nurtured Knut, ...
In rhyming text, the Cat in the Hat introduces Sally and Dick to the various inhabitants of the ocean, including herring, mackerel, jellyfish, sharks, manatees, and whales.
Koko, the female gorilla, has made international news time and again. Koko's Kitten features brilliant and captivating pictures by the photographer who has recorded Koko's progress for most of her life. Full-color photographs.
The Dorling Kindersley Handbook of Horses is packed with 250 vivid full-color photographs of more than 100 horse breeds. The authoritative and systematic photographic approach, with words never separated from pictures, marks a new generation of field guides.This book is designed for all those who love horses. The Dorling Kindersley Handbook of ...
This simple introduction to the life cycle of butterflies includes butterfly identification tips and instructions for planting a butterfly-friendly garden. Colorful collage illustrations accompany the text. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly.
In this companion volume to the bestselling "Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs," pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart explore the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves. Full of captivating facts and more than 35 fascinating pop-ups, this incredible volume is sure to astonish and amaze everyone ...
In this exciting follow-up to Owen and Mzee, the New York Times best-selling story about an orphaned baby hippo named Owen and the 130-year-old giant turtle, Mzee, the authors explore the language of love, friendship and nurturance that these two incredible creatures share with one another. This book traces their first year together, including ...
From the first sea mammals to fierce dinosaurs, this inspiring reference book takes young children on a fascinating journey into the prehistoric world. Includes quiz bars on every page to make learning fun. Full color.
Pets may not have words, but they do communicate. Paying attention to an animal's cues -a joyful bark, a scary growl, a swishing tail - can help a child understand what the animal is "saying" and what an appropriate response might be. That's part of what this book is about. But mostly it's about showing children how to love pets gently - because ...
Part of the "Eyewitness Guide" series, this visual encyclopaedia looks at the range of reptilian behaviour and lifestyles, from snakes and crocodiles to the only "living fossil", the tuatara.
How did the dinosaurs, the biggest, most powerful animals that ever walked the earth, die? Sixty-five million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth, with devastating effects. Paleontologist Charlotte Lewis Brown and artist Phil Wilson recreate what may have happened to the dinosaurs. Full color.
With a little help from the Cat in the Hat, Sally and Dick observe a small miracle in their own backyard--the metamorphosis of an egg into a caterpillar into a chrysalis into a bright new butterfly. Along the way, beginning readers will learn interesting facts about butterflies. Full color.
This reference book gives detailed information on birds. It has been structured so that the individual themes of each spread make up a complete visual story and a self-contained module of information. It is part of the "Eyewitness Guides" series.
"From fruit eating bats to smart chimpanzees, from moles in their holes to seals in the seas", Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat takes young readers on a fun-filled tour of the world of mammals. This title forms part of a series of books that takes a look at natural history through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed ...
"This book was written to supply a definite need. Its preparation was undertaken at the urgent request of booksellers and others who have felt the lack of a satisfactory medium of introduction to bird life for little children. As such, and in no sense whatever as a competitor with the many excellent books on this subject, but rather to supplement ...
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
