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The emperor's egg
"Students who are wild about penguins and classrooms doing units on them will find THE EMPEROR'S EGG an action-packed read." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL Can you imagine spending the winter outdoors in Antarctica without anything at all to eat? That’s just what the male Emperor penguin does. While his mate is off swimming in the ocean and catching loads of fish, he stands around in the freezin…
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- 0439188067
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- 29 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- Call Number
- 598.4 JEN
A nest full of eggs
What's inside that pretty blue egg? A baby bird is growing inside that egg. Slowly the bird develops, until one day it cracks through the shell. Safe inside the nest, under the care of its parents, the chick grows stronger. Soon it will learn how to fly and take care of itself. By next spring it will be ready to build its own nest and raise chicks of its own.
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- 9780064451277
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- 32 pages : illustration : 20 cm
- Series Title
- Lets read and find out science : stage 1
- Call Number
- 598.8 JEN
Penguin chick
An emperor penguin lays an egg on the Antarctic ice. In the bitter cold, miles away from the only source of food, how can the chick survive? A father penguin keeps his mate's egg warm by balancing it on his feet for two entire months. Learn how penguin parents take care of their babies in one of Earth's coldest, most desolate environments. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to …
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- 0439454646
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- 33 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
- Series Title
- Let's-read-and-find-out about
- Call Number
- 598.4 TAT
Partners and parents
Two new books on indigenous peoples and conservation have been added to naturalist Michael Chinery's exciting series Secrets of the Rainforest. Each colorful book shows us the wonderful array of plants and animals that live in the lush wildernesses of the world's tropical rainforests. Acting as the earth's lungs, the rainforests are of vital importance to the planet and to the many indigenous p…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780778702160
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
- Series Title
- Secrets of the rainforest
- Call Number
- 591.7 CHI
Going places
Nature is full of mysteries to be uncovered and wonders to be explored. The eighteen titles in this reading series plunge early readers into the endless fascination of the natural world. An array of important scientific concepts such as camouflage, habitat, identification of species and life cycles are presented in the simplest of words. A wonderfully clear and inviting text and a wealth of daz…
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- 0761412522
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
- Series Title
- We Can Read About Nature!
- Call Number
- 591.5 NIC
Guess who my mommy is
In this companion piece to Guess Where I Live, children learn about the natural world by seeing illustrations of animal mothers caring for their young in the wild.
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- 0744577462
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- 28 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- A
Who looks after me?
Think and discuss: Who looks after me?
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781740655545
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- 12 pages : illustration ; 15 cm
- Series Title
- National Geographic Windows on Literacy
- Call Number
- ECC15
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