HeroRat!
HeroRat!

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0807503851

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2023 Finalist AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books STARRED REVIEW! "A fun series that kids will enjoy."—Booklist starred review Meet a rodent with a life-saving sense of smell. Magawa is an African giant pouched rat with a special skill: sniffing out buried land mines. Follow this HeroRat from training at a university in Tanzania, to working in the field in Cambodia, to winning a gold medal for her efforts to make land safe for humans and animals once again.

Spidernaut
Spidernaut

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0807504408

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Told in the first person as if written by Arabella herself, she describes how she was the first spider to spin a web in space in 1973, and even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Reading Arabella's diary and the story, we learn how spiders spin webs and why this experiment, suggested by a high school student, was important.

Animal Heroes
Animal Heroes

Author: Jane Bingham

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1432948342

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This volume recounts true stories of animal heroism, from horses and dogs serving alongside their human companions, to messenger pigeons flying through enemy lines.

Animals to the Rescue!
Animals to the Rescue!

Author: Sandra Markle

Publisher: Millbrook Press TM

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1728447658

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Did you know that rats can be heroes? In the southern African nation of Mozambique, these amazing rats (which are the size of a small house cat) have helped clear landmines. And that's just one of the incredible stories in this book. Award-winning author Sandra Markle has collected wonderful true stories about animals that have rescued humans—and other animals. With fabulous photographs of the featured animals, this book is sure to appeal to animal lovers everywhere!

Goldilocks and the Three Engineers
Goldilocks and the Three Engineers

Author: Sue Fliess

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 080753000X

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These three bears help inventor Goldilocks in this quirky fairy tale. Goldilocks is an inventor with inventor's block. To clear her mind, she takes a walk. Coincidentally, a very smart Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear also take a walk, and they find a cute little bungalow with almost-right inventions. Can they help make the inventions just right?

Togo and Balto
Togo and Balto

Author: Jodie Parachini

Publisher: Animalographies

Published: 2022-04

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780807503829

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It was 1925 and the world was in a diptheria pandemic. The town of Nome, Alaska, needed the serum to save its children but there was only one way to get there: dog sled. Balto and Togo, two Siberian huskies, were part of the relay race that pushed through below-freezing temperatures and a blizzard to bring the serum to Nome.

A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale
A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale

Author: Karen Rostoker-Gruber

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807556912

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Animal antics abound in this hilarious tale! Farmer Earl has had enough—his home is too crowded! So, he visits the wise woman in town for help. She tells him to bring all his ducks in the house. And then all his horses. And all his goats too! How will there be more room with all these animals? This updated folktale uses humor to explore what it takes to gain a new perspective.

Chicken Frank, Dinosaur!
Chicken Frank, Dinosaur!

Author: S. K. Wenger

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0807511420

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Can Chicken Frank prove he's related to a T.rex? Chicken Frank wants to prove he's related to a T.rex—because of evolution!—but none of the other farm animals believe him, until he gets his DNA test results. This comic-book style picture book combines information with humor to explore the concept of evolution and the connection between birds and dinosaurs.

Always Looking Up
Always Looking Up

Author: Laura Gehl

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0807502979

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A Mighty Girl's 2019 Books of the Year An inspiring look at the scientist who became "The Mother of Hubble." This empowering picture book biography tells the story of Nancy Grace Roman, the astronomer who overcame obstacles like weak eyesight and teachers who discouraged women from pursuing astronomy to lead the NASA team that built the Hubble Space Telescope. A testament to women in scientific careers and a record of an important NASA milestone.

Rat
Rat

Author: Andrzej Zaniewski

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781559702621

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To be published simultaneously in nine countries, Rat is an allegorical novel--about the laws that govern society, about our mythologies, truths and lies, behaviors and institutions, love and hope--as reflected in the gutters, drains and sewers where our close relative, the rat, lives.