You approach with caution, drawn to their equine beauty. Thesleek stallion, the magnificent mare, and the gentle foal look likeany happy family. But don't get too close. These are wild horses,untamed by humans. Now photographers Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcotttake you inside the world of the wild horse. This husband-and-wifeteam of committed experts makes a case for the conservation of oneof America's favorite wild species.
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It's 1894. Charlotte and her American family have been living in France for two years where her father has learned the new way of painting called Impressionism. Now her father's paintings are going to be featured in a show in New York and the whole family is going along. New York is a hustling, bustling city like no other in the world, and Charlotte records it all in her colorful journal.Illustrated with striking museum reproductions, beautiful watercolor paintings, and collages, the book also includes biographical sketches of the featured painters. Charlotte's exciting journey to the city that never sleeps will make any reader shout, "I love New York!"
The ingeniously designed, safe plastic bottle is perfect for catching and viewing creepy crawlies, then letting them go unharmed. This is a bug kit with a conscience! The full-colour book provides field notes to 46 bugs (up from the original 24) arranged by habitat, including pond, forest, ground, leaves, field, flower. Written by entomologist Hugh Danks, the "Bug Book" gives comprehensive information about these fascinating creatures - how they live, what they eat, unusual characteristics, and more.It offers simple, clear guidelines on how to collect and care for bugs, and equally helpful hints on which bugs not to catch. New to the kit are a fold-out bug chart for quick identification, a magnifier to see the critters up close, and a bug explorer's journal to record discoveries. Discover how the whirligig beetle got its name, why fireflies light up, and how water striders walk on water. And then impress parents and friends - here are all the tools kids need to become bona fide bug experts.
This Magic Tree House set including the following titles: Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, No. 5) Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House, No. 6) Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House, No. 7) Midnight on the Moon. (Magic Tree House, No. 8)
Rain forests are literally bursting with life! Covering just6% of the earth’s surface, rain forests are home to over 60% of allknown animal species! From the riverbed to the treetops, kids canexplore the many fascinating layers of the rain forest in 3-DExplorer: Rain Forest. This amazing book gives kids a close-upview of the plants and animals that inhabit dense jungles. Filledwith engaging facts and spectacular photography, this book alsofeatures five dramatic 3-D pop-up scenes with transparent layersthat reveal the secrets of each rain forest zone.
It’s time to sleep! Who dozes standing on one leg withoutfalling over, snores while flying, or snuggles together in a bigsleepy pile?
People want their homes to be comfortable and secure, aplace where they can happily raise their children and one dayretire. It's no different in the animal world! There are animalarchitects, animal builders, and even animal squatters — meet themall in 3-D Close Up: Animal Homes! With four awesome pop-upcross sections, this fascinating new book gives young readers achance to do in-depth investigations of some dazzling dwellings —in the trees, in the water, and underground — and meet the amazinganimals that live inside. Kids will love exploring intricate insectcities, squirrels' treetop dreys, a beaver lodge, and theunderground burrow of a meerkat family. Every page is bursting withengaging information, cool close-up photographs, and dramatic,highly detailed illustrations that bring the animal homes vividlyto life.
A delightful bilingual reader with lively illustrations showing the dramatic significance of water in the earth. Faucet well raincloud sea …from each of these comes water. But where does Water go? To find out, honey,turn the page, dive in with tongue or toes,with eyes and ears and nose—and wonder at the flow of this great world’s life story.
Fearsome and fascinating, sharks have an enduring appeal forkids. With this imaginative three-dimensional model-in-a-book kit,the great white can be easily built, deconstructed, and rebuiltlayer by layer until each of its elements - cartilage, dentition,fins, gills, and then cardiopulmonary, digestive, and acute sensorysystems - is understood. Included are discussions on interestingtopics like shark fin soup, shark liver oil, and shark populations.With Uncover a Shark, kids can get up close and personal with agreat white without getting bitten!
In this title you will find over 1000 illustrations, plus factfiles, maps and diagrams explaining who's who in the dinosaur world. From life on earth before the dinosaurs, the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and different types of dinosaurs: to fossils, famous finds and dinosaur myths and legends.
Though fierce, not all sharks are the dangerous monsters wethink them to be. In fact, far more sharks are killed by humanseach year than human are killed by sharks. Doubilet takes you downto the deep, where a glorious variety of this amazing family awaitsyou, from the famous Great White to his foot-long cousins. Howclose do you want to get to these marvels of the deep? Doubiletspends much of his life trying to get close enough to look them inthe eye. And now, through Doubilet's remarkable photographs, youcan too! Once you have seen the true beauty of sharks, you will besad to learn that humans both fear them and destroy them in greatnumbers.
B is for Binary, F is for Fibonacci, P is for Probability...even a small sample begins to give you the idea that this is a mathbook unlike any other. Ranging freely from exponents to light-yearsto numbers found in nature, this smorgasbord of math concepts andtrivia makes a perfect classroom companion or gift book for thebudding young mathematician at home. Even the most reluctant mathstudent will be drawn in by the author's trademark wit, MarissaMoss's quirky illustrations and funny captions, and the answersrevealed in W is for " When are we ever gonna use this stuff,anyway?" Download the G is for Googol Teacher's Guide(300K)
The Magic Tree House adventures continue in books 9—12. Morganthe magical librarian of Camelot challenges Jack and Annie todiscover the answers to four riddles as they travel under the seato the Wild West, the African plains, and the frozen Arctic. Ifthey succeed, they will become Master Librarians! Books in this setinclude:Dolphins at Daybreak (#9)Ghost Town at Sundown (#10) Lionsat Lunchtime (#11) Polar Bears past Bedtime (#12) Magic Tree HouseBooks #9—12.