Sunset of the sabertooth

The Ice Age is very cool...for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure--not even a saber-toothed tiger!

Where the forest meets the sea

Beautiful collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to a primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now threatened. "My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest. We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretend…

Drawn from nature

Helen Ahpornsiri's intricate artwork transforms leaves, petals, and seeds into bounding hares, swooping swallows, and blossoming trees. Using nothing but pressed plants, this journey through the seasons captures the wonder and magic of the natural world between the pages of a book. This standout title with beautiful nonfiction text will take readers through an extraordinary year in the wild.

The desert is theirs

You may think of the desert as a harsh, dry place where no one would ever want to live -- but think again. The Desert People know. so do the animals. Both love the land, and "share the feeling of being brothers in the desert, of being desert creatures together." Byrd Baylor's spare, poetic text and Peter Parnall's striking illustrations lime the sky, stone and sand of the desert in this haunt…

Why do sunflowers face the sun? : questions children ask about nature

Provides answers to children's questions about animals, plants, and the world around them.

Nature

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0809471485

Collation

87 pages : illustration ; 30 cm

Series Title

A Child's First Library Of Learning

Call Number

508 NAT

Nature what's it? : creatures, plants, nature's oddities and more : an eye-de…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0920775381

Collation

32 pages : illustration : 21 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

508 THO

I live in the country

The Where I Live series provides a glimpse of everyday life in a variety of settings. Each book introduces a different type of location from the viewpoints of children who live there. The interesting, on-level information satisfies beginning readers' curiosity and the simple language satisfies their desire to read on their own.

Living world

World of Wonder series introduces readers (Ages 6-9) to some of the most intriguing, amazing, fascinating, and surprising people, places, animals, and things in the universe.Our planet has an amazing variety of life forms, from fast-running predators to gigantic trees. This book lists some of the fastest, largest and most unusual animals.

Fish grew legs : and other questions about prehistory

Realistic illustrations and charming cartoons combine to reveal the mysteries behind such inquires as when did life on earth begin and what killed the dinosaurs, in an innovative reference that satisfies any child's curiosity about the prehistoric world.