This popular series continues traveling the planet to study alligators, bats, and other fascinating animals. Beautiful photos are paired with accessible text to examine the featured creature's appearance, habitat, behaviors, and life cycle.
What if you found a baby owl in your backyard? Would you know what to do? Where would you go to find help? Join young Maddie and Max as they learn a valuable lesson from a little lost owl in Baby Owl's Rescue by Jennifer Keats Curtis. The brother and sister pair just wanted to play baseball one day. They never expected to come face-to-face with a wild animal! Lush illustrations by Laura Jacques accompany this story and demonstrate the proper treatment of wildlife. This story reminds all of us that we live in a world surrounded by wild animals, and those wild animals deserve our caution and our respect!
"Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through grade three, this book introduces moose and elk to young readers through leveled text and related photos"--
Six new titles in this popular narrative nonfiction adventure series feature animals from the ocean to Africa to Australia. Child adventurers become wildlife tourists and make firsthand observations about the animals. According to Booklist, "This engaging and original take on a perennially popular subject will be a welcome addition to school and public library collections." Each title features a world range map and additional resources list for further study. A child goes on a safari in Africa and observes lions hunting and lions' behavior in their pride.
The My Favorite Animal series lets the earliest readers explore the animal kingdom. Moose examines the characteristics and habitat of the gangly forest mammal in a simple way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a glossary-- Provided by publisher.
When watching old men releasing their caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba or even willow catkins in Alaska, Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. Here we meet the wolf of Gubbio when he is old and lame and Li Bai chanting to a Yangtze River dolphin centuries ago, but no matter where he takes us we always come back to the landscape and people of Alaska; to cloudberries in a marsh and a wedding in the village of Ninlichik where he held a crown of gold over the head of the bride. Sexton carefully notes it all in his familiar practice of traditional forms and free verse. The tensions of his formal influences, Chinese and European, force the reader to experience these spare lines and tight observations in new ways.
Best friend or best man? Groom Wanted by Debra Ullrick Best friends Leah Bowen and Jake Lure arrange to advertise for mail-order spouses—Jake will help select Leah’s groom, while Leah picks Jake’s bride-to-be! Surely they’ll each find their perfect match: a wife to appreciate Jake’s shy charm and a groom to take Leah away from the Idaho Territory she detests. But the closer they each get to the altar, the less appealing marrying a stranger becomes. A Texas-Made Match by Noelle Marchand For Ellie O’Brien, finding the perfect partner is easy—as long as it’s for other people. Now the townsfolk of Peppin want to return the favor. But how could Lawson Williams be the right choice? The handsome ranch foreman was her childhood friend, but he’s the man Ellie deems least likely to court a tomboy with a guilty secret.