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Baby Bunnies

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778791362

Children will love reading about different breeds of rabbits and how they raise their babies. This captivating introduction features wonderful photographs of both wild and pet rabbits as well as facts about their bodies, where they live, and how they change as they grow.

Baby Giraffes

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778791393

Young children will love this introduction to the tallest land animal in the world! Simple text and captivating photos feature calves, or babies, being cared for by their mothers and learning how to survive in woodlands and on savannas. Children will also learn about the parts of the giraffes body, from its extraordinary neck and spotted coat to its long blue tongue!

Wild and Pet Puppies

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789000

Children will love learning about these adorable candid carnivores. This book introduces dogs in the wild: how they are born, what makes them mammals, and how their mothers care for them and teach them how to hunt. Wild pups include wolves, foxes, dingoes, jackals, coyotes, and dholes.

Caterpillars to Butterflies

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778788980

Butterflies are the most beautiful insects, and this latest Crabtree title shows these colorful creatures in all their glory! The book starts with the stages of metamorphosis from egg to wormlike caterpillar to pupa, and finally, to a magnificent butterfly. It then introduces some caterpillars and butterflies and asks children to notice their similarities and differences. The book then challenges children to guess which caterpillars would change into which butterflies.

Baby Reptiles

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778788973

Kids love reptiles! Reptiles range in size from as small as a human thumbnail to the length of two average cars parked from end to end. The most popular reptiles of all, dinosaurs, were even bigger! This informative book presents the most important information about reptiles, showing wonderful photographs of the baby versions of these animals. Young students will love learning about these animals at the cutest stage of their lives.

Tadpoles to Frogs

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778788997

Tadpoles to Frogs looks at the life cycle of pond frogs and tree frogs, with amazing photographs following their metamorphosis from tadpoles to adult amphibian. This title is so much more than just another life-cycle book!

Living things need water

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165244

The bodies of living things are made up mostly of water. This fascinating new book shows young children why all plants, animals, and people need water to grow and survive. Interesting photographs feature animals and plants living in water - frogs and fish laying their eggs in water, and land animals using water to cool off and keep clean.

Plants are living things

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165251

Most plants have roots, stems, and leaves. Whether they live in oceans, forests, or marshes, plants use these parts to make their own food. This easy-to-understand book introduces children to the basics of photosynthesis and food chains. It also looks at the different ways in which plants grow.

How do living things find food?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427194909

All living things need food to survive, but not all living things eat the same kinds of food. From plants to herbivores to carnivores, the bodies of living things are specially designed to find the types of food they need. Children will be amazed by such food-gathering techniques as camouflage, echolocation, pouncing, trapping, poisoning, and using tools.

What kind of living thing is it?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427194916

What kind of living thing is it? will turn young readers into nature detectives. This fascinating book explores what makes a living thing and how living things are grouped. This intriguing book asks children to look at particular characteristics and decide if certain living things are what they seem to be.

Homes of living things

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165206

This colorful new book looks at how different kinds of animals make homes in their habitats. Children will discover why animals and plants are suited to the places in which they live. Amazing photographs show animals that live in hot or cold temperatures, as well as animals that live high up in the trees, on the ground, or underneath the earth.

Animals grow and change

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165190

This delightful new book shows the exciting changes some animals go through as they grow up. Children will learn how some animals are born live, and others hatch from eggs. Then, as living things, all animals grow and change. Close up images show how some animals grow bigger and look the same while some go through metamorphosis and change into something different.

Living things in my back yard

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165237

Backyard animals are the most familiar to children. This engaging book will get your students to answer these questions: which animals do you come into contact with most?; which of these animals have wings?; which ones burrow into the ground?; which ones live in the trees? Meet some common backyard residents such as birds, butterflies, raccoons, squirrels, bees, skunks, and frogs, and occasional visitors such as bats, deer, and coyotes.

Animal Families

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165183

Children love to read about different kinds of animal families. In this fascinating new book, simple text explains how animals behave toward their young in different and sometimes surprising ways, from fish and reptile mothers who leave their young to fend for themselves to male wolves and penguins who help raise their babies. Engaging photographs also show how mammal mothers teach their young survival skills and how some animals live together in groups.

I am a living thing

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165213

This wonderful new book explains in a simple way why people are living things. We need sunshine, air, water, and food. We grow and change. We need places to live. Young children will be amazed to learn that, as living things, they share many similarities with plants and animals.

Is it a living thing?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427165220

How can children tell when something is living or non-living? In large photographs and easy text, this captivating book highlights the characteristics of living things and shows how they are all dependent on non-living things to stay alive.

Backyard Habitats

Bobbie Kalman, Kelley MacAulay (authors)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427198112

Backyard Habitats takes children on a journey through their own back yards and teaches them about the many living things that are leading fascinating lives all around them.

Explore Earth's Five Oceans

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427194824

Oceans cover three-quarters of the planet. This fascinating book shows how the world's five oceansPacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arcticare interconnected and why they are vitally important to the rest of Earth. Concise text, easy-to-read maps, and dazzling full-color photographs provide kids with an overview of these unique biomes.

What is climate?

Bobbie Aloian (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427179579

Climate is the average weather in an area over many years. This timely book looks at weather patterns around the world, the factors influencing climate, such as ocean currents and jet streams, and how climate is changing today. Children will learn how people and other living things in different places on Earth are being affected by climate change and what we can do to help reduce the damage.

La historia de Kali: El rescate de un oso polar hurfano

Jennifer Keats Curtis (author), John Gomes (illustrator)

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing ISBN: 9781628552447

Sigue el viaje fotográfico del oso polar huerfáno Kali (se pronuncia Cully) cuando es rescatado y llevado lejos a la villa Inupiat de Kali (Point Lay en inglés). Los aldeanos cuidan de él hasta que un avión lo lleva al zoológico de Alaska en Anchorage. Ahí, él crece y aprende habilidades de los cuidadores del zoológico para suplir a su madre. Como los oseznos jóvenes necesitan compañía, expertos en animales encuentran un amigo para Kali: Luna, un oso polar hembra en el zoológico de Buffalo en Nueva York.

Mucosa marina: Es pegajosa, asquerosa y en el ocano...fabulosa

Ellen Prager (author), Shennen Bersani (illustrator)

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing ISBN: 9781628552461

Los caracoles y las babosas marinas utilizan la “mucosa” marina. Pero, ¿sabías que también el coral y el pez payaso la necesitan? La científica marina Ellen Prager nos lleva a las profundidades del océano para presentarnos a unos animales fascinantes y extraños que utilizan la mucosa para atrapar su alimento, protegerse de sufrir cualquier daño e incluso, desplazarse de un lugar a otro bajo el agua.

Osos Polares y Pinginos: Un libro de comparacin y contraste

Editorial (author), buy photos? (illustrator)

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing ISBN: 9781628552454

Puede que a los osos polares y a los pingüinos les guste el frío pero viven en los polos opuestos en el planeta Tierra. ¿Qué tienen estos animales en común y en qué se diferencian? Es posible verlos juntos en un zoológico, pero nunca se encontrarían en el mismo hábitat en la naturaleza. Compara y encuentra las diferencias entre estos animales polares a través de impresionantes fotografías.

La plantita Margarita

Marianne Berkes (author), Cathy Morrison (illustrator)

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing ISBN: 9781628552423

Margarita necesita un hogar que sea ideal. Ella le pide a Viento que le ayude a encontrar el hábitat perfecto para echar sus raíces y él acepta el reto. Viento la lleva hacia la llanura, la montaña y el pantano. Ella descarta uno por uno, cada lugar—o es demasiado frío, o demasiado duro o demasiado húmedo. Y como los dos no se quieren dar por vencidos, intentan la selva tropical húmeda y luego, la playa calurosa; pero tampoco son los mejores. ¿Podrá Viento encontrar el clima perfecto y la tierra firme para que la semilla Margarita eche sus raíces y se convierta en una hermosa flor?

El primer fuego: Una leyenda Chroqui

Nancy Kelly Allen (author), Sherry Rogers (illustrator)

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing ISBN: 9781628552430

¿Por qué los cuervos son negros? ¿Por qué los ojos de los búhos (megascops) se ven rojos en la luz? ¿Como llegó el fuego a la Tierra? Tú encontrarás las respuestas a esas preguntas en este relato de una leyenda popular Chéroqui . La tierra era fría y obscura pero los animales podían ver fuego proveniente de un árbol en la isla. Ellos intentaron volar o nadar hacia la isla para traer el calor y la luz del fuego. ¿Qué fue lo que les pasó a algunos de los animales? ¿Cuál animal fue por el fuego, lo trajo y cómo lo hizo?

El ocupadsimo ao de los castores

Mary Holland (author)

Publisher: Arbordale Publishing ISBN: 9781628552409

Alguna vez los ocupadsimos castores se toman un descanso? Este diario fotogrfico recopila los datos durante un ao mientras ellos construyen su presa, cuidan a sus cras y recolectan comida antes que los meses de invierno comiencen de nuevo.