Let the Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's experiences: laugh with them, learn with them, read with them!Sixteen bestselling titles available now! Category: NatureIn a tropical rain forest in Central America, a red-eyed tree frog spends the night looking for food while avoiding potential predators. Award-winning photographer Nic Bishop's larger-than-li…
Watch one of nature's hardest-working insect families in action--termites! Hundreds of thousands of termites can live together in one nest. The termite queen spends her life laying eggs. The eggs hatch into workers that clean the queen, watch over the eggs, search for food, tend the nest's gardens, and guard the nest and each other. But a termite family's most amazing feat is building the huge …
Did you know that there are about 140,000 species of month - many as brilliantly coloured as butterflies? This book looks at some of the moth fascinating, from the tiny Micro moth to the larger, and very valuable, Silk - moth.
Are You a Butterfly? This introduction to the world of the butterfly aims to bring this familiar, small creature sympathetically to life. Young children should be fascinated by this tiny life found just outside their back door. Full description
A caterpillar goes through one of the most dramatic transformation in nature. This title explains plant growth in a clear and organized manner. Readers will love watching the transformations take place.
There are more than 17,000 kinds of butterflies in the world. Some of them will only live for a few days. Others will migrate thousands of miles to winter in a warmer climate. Still others will hibernate through the cold months. For all butterflies, life begins with metamorphosis. In one of nature's most amazing feats, caterpillars become creatures of beauty and grace. A companion to It's a Hum…
This beginning-to-read series, "Rookie Readers", will score easily with early readers. These very simple books focus on different aspects of language usage. Colorful, action pictures and familiar, everyday activities will interest and motivate young readers. A word list is included in each book. The "Rookie Readers" were prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich, Ph.D.
The wonders of insects revealed through facts and photos... Beautiful, clear photographs and illuctions appear on every fascinating page of this oversized-full-color book.
Ladybugs are a farmer's best friend-they eat the bugs that would otherwise harm plants. Nature Up close series uses beautiful watercolors to depict each creature's world from its unique perspective. Simple text describes the creatures' movements and activities.
From tiny baby spiderlings to large tarantulas, nonfiction master Gail Gibbons' introduction to these intriguing arachnids reminds us that even when they look scary, most spiders are harmless--and even helpful! There are over thirty thousand kinds of spiders in the world--small and large, colorful or gray--and they live, hunt, and adapt in different ways. A number of different species and sp…