What's your favorite animal? In My Favorite Animal: Cows, students will learn amazing facts about cows. Each My Favorite Animal book features interesting non-fiction at a 2nd-grade reading level paired with questions throughout the text to check the reader's comprehension.
Learn all about lynx in this informational picture book. Kids ages 4-8 will enjoy learning about lynx through beautiful photos, engaging text and fun questions to test comprehension throughout the book.
Learn all about hippos in this fun and informational text. Like all books in the My Favorite Animal Series, Hippopotamus offers engaging facts and checks the reader's knowledge and comprehension throughout the book.
This ebook includes audio narration. Everybody has a favorite animal. Some like little white dogs or big black cats or hoppy brown bunnies best. Others prefer squishy snails or tall giraffes or sleek black panthers. With beautiful illustrations and charming personal stories, 14 children's book artists share their favorite animals and why they love them. - Eric Carle - Nick Bruel - Lucy Cousins - Susan Jeffers - Steven Kellogg - Jon Klassen - Tom Lichtenheld - Peter McCarty - Chris Raschka - Peter Sís - Lane Smith - Erin Stead - Rosemary Wells - Mo Willems
"An important and groundbreaking contribution to the struggle for the welfare of animals." --Yuval Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind The book offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote ourselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for our consumption. Social psychologist Melanie Joy explores the many ways we numb ourselves and disconnect from our natural empathy for farmed animals. She coins the term "carnism" to describe the belief system that has conditioned us to eat certain animals and not others. In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Joy investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly the animals are treated, the hazards that meatpacking workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year. Controversial and challenging, this book will change the way you think about food forever. "An absorbing examination of why humans feel affection and compassion for certain animals but are callous to the suffering of others." --Publishers Weekly "I think Gandhi would have loved Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. For this is a book that can change the way you think and change the way you live. It will lead you from denial to awareness, from passivity to action, and from resignation to hope." --John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution
Easy-to-follow text and photos introduce readers to cows and their calves. Plus each title includes bonus augmented reality video to help readers learn more.
The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild’s hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol’s more than 20,000 patients have ranged from white mice to 2600-pound horses and everything in between. From the time he was twelve years old and helped deliver a litter of piglets on his family’s farm to the incredible moments captured on his hit TV show, Dr. Pol has amassed a wealth of stories of what it’s like caring for this menagerie of animals. He shares his own story of growing up surrounded by animals, training to be a vet in the Netherlands, and moving to Michigan to open his first practice in a pre fab house. He has established himself as an empathetic yet no-nonsense vet who isn’t afraid to make the difficult decisions in order to do what’s best for his patients—and their hard-working owners. A sick pet can bring heartache, but a sick cow or horse could threaten the very livelihood of a farmer whose modest profits are dependent on healthy livestock. Reminiscent of the classic books of James Herriot, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow is a charming, fascinating, and funny memoir that will delight animal lovers everywhere.
« Everybody has a favorite animal. Some like little white dog or big black cats or hoppy brown bunnies best. Others prefer squishy snails or tall giraffes or yellow spotted leopards. In this book, fourteen beloved children's book artists draw their favorite animals and explain why they love them. Readers will undoubtedly be inspired to create favorite animal drawings and stories of their own! »--
Cows Can't Quack (featuring animal sounds) is part of the Cows Can't Series, which also includes Cows Can't Jump (animal actions), Cows Can't Spin Silk (animal creations), Cows Can't Blow Bubbles (shapes animals make) and Las vacas no pueden saltar (bilingual Spanish/English edition of Cows Can't Jump). By listening to and reading aloud these fun, educational and engaging picture books, young children will learn the names of dozens of animals - and their actions, sounds, creations and shape-making skills - reinforcing early reading skills and a love of books! The Cows Can't Series is perfect for young listeners and beginning readers ages newborn to six years old. Cows Can't Quack is available in multiple formats: Stubby & Stout? Board-book (chunky-style format ideal for small hands), Glossy Paperback (for older children), Hardcover (full size format with board-book covers/pages) and Kindle eBook.Cows Can't Jump is featured on the Recommended Children's Books list of the award-winning early literacy organization Parent-Child+ and has received high praise including "Perfect for my early reader", "Excellent bedtime story", "Every home with small children needs a copy", "Just as adorable and fun as 'Cows Can't Jump'" and "Incredibly charming. A big hit with preschoolers and early readers".The Series is published by Jumping Cow Press, which actively supports early literacy programs and partners with a direct-impact foundation to provide tens of thousands of copies of the Series at no cost to Reach Out and Read, Parent-Child Home+, Pajama Program, Read to Grow, Raising a Reader, Kids Need to Read, Get Georgia Reading, Literacy, Inc. (LINC) and Read by 4th, all of which integrate the Cows Can't Series into their early childhood literacy programs.Learn more about the Series, and download free printable activity sheets and learning guides, at JumpingCowPress.com. Follow Jumping Cow Press on Twitter (@cowscantjump) and Facebook (/jumpingcowpress).