Major Dennis first met Nubs, a German Shepherd-Border Collie Mix and the leader of a pack of desert dogs, while patrolling one of the Iraqi border forts. Eventually, Dennis and Nubs formed a bond, strengthened by the fact that Dennis nurtured the dog back to health after a near fatal injury. When Brian's team relocated a full seventy miles away, ...
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!
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 ...
Here is an enticing collection of dinosaurs sure to excite any child. Packed with full-color photographs of life-like models plus detailed illustrations, the book offers simple text describing interesting features. Questions encourage children to compare various dinosaurs.
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.
This inspiring new edition to the First Reference series is loaded with spectacular photos of animals in action showing their habits and habitats. From aardvark to zebra, this book is packed with fascinating facts. Full color.
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.
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.
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.
Readers will meet more than 1,000 animals in this comprehensive volume that introduces the entire animal kingdom to young readers. The animal kingdom is the greatest show on Earth, and "National Geographic Encyclopedia of Animals" gives readers the best seat in the house.
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 ...
More than 100 captivating photographs show readers the hidden world beneath the waves of the ocean in this title in a new series of reference books that focuses on both science and the natural sciences. Full-color photos.
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.
Part of a series of reference books that give detailed information on a wide variety of subjects and interests. This book is a visual guide to the evolution, behaviour and role in civilization of all members of the horse family. The book traces the development of horses from when they were odd-looking, striped, horse-like creatures with toes ...
MOLLY THE PONY tells the heart warming, true story of a pony who endures and survives the wrath of Hurricane Katrina and then waits to be rescued from her south Louisiana barn. When she is and begins a new life on a farm, her life is suddenly threatened again when a dog attacks her, badly injuring her front leg. For a pony, a damaged leg is life ...
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.
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 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 ...
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