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Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
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Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu
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, ...
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Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship
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Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu
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 ...
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Is a camel a mammal?
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Tish Rabe, Jim Durk
"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 ...
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Owen & Mzee: Best Friends
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Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, Paula Kahumbu
This is the true story of two great friends: a baby hippo named Owen and a giant tortoise named Mzee. In December 2004, a frightened young hippo, separated from his family by the devastating tsunami in South-East Asia, adopted a 130-year-old tortoise as his 'mother'. And the tortoise remarkably accepted the baby hippo as his own. Owen and Mzee are ...
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Burgess Animal Book for Children
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Thornton W Burgess
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The cordial reception given the Burgess Bird Book for Children, together with numerous letters to the author asking for information on the habits and characteristics of many of the ...
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Bats
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Gail Gibbons (Illustrator)
The amazing abilities of these flying mammals and how they fit into the natural world are explained in this full-color volume.
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Whales: The Gentle Giants
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Joyce Milton, Alton Langford (Illustrator)
Describes how whales live and some different types of whales.
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Wild Animals
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Deni Bown
Simple text and photographs with tactile patches introduce such wild animals as the lion, lizard, and dolphin.
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Squirrels
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Brian Wildsmith
Text and watercolor illustrations describe the characteristics and habits of squirrels throughout the year.
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Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats
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Ann Earle
Commonly feared and surrounded by myths, bats have long been misunderstood--and in some cases hunted to near-extinction. This new "Let's-Read-and-Find-Out" book dispels a lot of the fiction about bats and introduces the little flying mammal to readers. Included are where bats live, how young are raised, and how they hunt for food, along with other ...
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About Mammals: A Guide for Children
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C Sill
Explains what mammals are, how they live, and what they do.
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Chipmunk Song
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Joanne Ryder, Lynne Cherry (Illustrator)
"The joy of the book comes in the artist's addition of a child who lives the life of a chipmunk--running, sleeping underground, cleaning, eating, appealing to a small child's natural fascination with size. . . . Effective, understated, funny, and quite beautiful".--Kirkus Reviews, starred review.
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Animals Born Alive and Well
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Ruth Heller
Text and illustrations introduce animals with fur or hair who nurse their young, breathe fresh air, and except for two species give birth to their young alive instead of laying eggs.
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Dolphins!
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Sharon Bokoske, Margaret Davidson, Courtney (Illustrator)
Introduces dolphins and their physical characteristics, behavior, social structure, intelligence, and interaction with humans.
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Mule Deer Country
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Valerius Geist
-- A valuable and comprehensive reference. -- Beautiful coffee-table book.
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Bat Loves the Night
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Nicola Davies, Sarah Fox-Davies (Illustrator)
Did you know that bats aren't birds, but mammals? That they sleep upside down? That their babies are called batlings? That they shout as they fly, using their voices to find their way? This is a study of the fascinating nocturnal world of the bat, the monarch of the night.
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Skunks
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Adrienne Mason, Nancy Gray Ogle (Illustrator)
Learn all about skunk growth and change, skunk habitats and communities in this exciting book in the popular Kids Can Press Wildlife Series.
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Mammal
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Jen Green, David Burnie
The world's weird, wild, and wacky animals and plants leap off the page in this series brilliant color photographs and fascinating, fun-filled fact boxes. Each book puts the spotlight on amazing creatures and plants and includes "weird facts" boxes, project suggestions, a web site directory and glossary.
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Platypus!
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G Clarke
Beginning readers will dive right into this simple, Step 2 nonfiction book about one of the most unique animals on earth. Full color, .
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Bats!
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Time for Kids Magazine, Nicole Iorio
Bats rise at night just as people are going to sleep. They sail through the dark in search of bugs, fruit, or fish to eat. There are more than a thousand kinds of bats in the world. Young readers are introduced to these fascinating fliers in this volume. Full color.
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Giraffes? Giraffes!
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Doris Haggis, Bennie Haggis
From Dave Eggers and the forces behind McSweeney's comes a new subversive series of tongue-in-cheek knowledge books for young readers. While aiming to be more entertaining than educational, these first two titles offer some information that may be inadvertently true. Full color.
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Skunks!
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D Greenberg
A humorous poetic ode to skunks which suggests using their smelly spray to flavor ice cream sundaes and salads. Watercolor illustrations accompany the rhyming text.
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Mammals
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National Audubon Society, John Grassy
Part I shows readers what a mammal lifecycle is like. Part II is a field guide to identifiy animals from the bear to the rabbit to the seal. Part III contains a waterproof, portable mammal spotter's guide. Full color.
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Sea Otter Rescue
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Roland Smith (Photographer), Joy Peskin (Editor)
An account of the damage caused by the 1989 "Exxon Valdez" oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alaska. This study focuses on the rescue of the sea otters who were accidentally poisoning themselves while grooming their oil covered bodies. The otters needed to be caught, cleaned, dried, fed, and ultimately released back into their environment. ...
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Koala
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Edana Eckart
The koala, a tree-dwelling marsupial of Australia, is the subject of this Welcome Books title, and introduces young readers to the koala's habitat, its diet, and its behavior. Includes a glossary and index. Full color.
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