Synopsis: Reduce, reuse, and recycle. By following this motto, we can help keep the Earth clean. This informative nonfiction reader introduces students to the concept of recycling. With easy-to-read text, this book teaches students important scientific concepts and vocabulary terms. Aligned to state and national standards, the book contains easy-to-read text and nonfiction text features like an index, a glossary, captions, bold font, and detailed images…

Synopsis: Search-and-find riddles paired with amazing photographs will captivate kids of all ages in the bestselling I Spy series. Think you know every I Spy book out there? Think you've found every last bauble, bow, striped cat, and cloudy ship? Think again! Jean Marzollo has written her most challenging riddles yet to accompany Walter Wick's fabulous photographs culled from the original I Spy books. You've never seen I Spy like this!

Synopsis: Fish has a wish. He wishes he were a bird so he could fly. He wishes he were a skunk and made a big stink... or a snake that says HISSSSSSSS! But after enjoying a delicious mayfly snack, Fish realizes he's happy exactly as he is. The stunning artwork draws from Asian and classical European wildlife art, and is both elegant and bold.

Synopsis: A bragging hare is challenged to a race by a much slower tortoise, only to lose due to overconfidence.

Synopsis: Introduces young children to the fascinating world of bees, describing how they build their hive, hibernate, care for their young, make honey, and divide their household chores.

Synopsis: Provides a treasury of fascinating frog facts while answering a variety of questions, including how tadpoles become frogs, how frogs catch bugs, what frogs say when they croak, and the differences between frogs and toads.

Synopsis: Although the other hominidees tease him, Gak prefers to walk on two legs instead of four, and one day his difference turns out to be helpful, just as his mother said it would.

Synopsis: This story speaks to children who are close to a child with autism; a brother, sister, cousin, friend or classmate. It explains how we are all different to each other, and how the sibling has special powers, which help them in the trickier moments where the child might feel rejection or find it hard to deal with a meltdown. With an air of magic running through the story, it is positive and empowering and encourages the child to use their special…

Synopsis: Dinosaur sized pages with detailed illustrations of a variety of prehistoric animals.

Synopsis: Pauly is a hungry bat! And, like most pallid bats, he is hungry for a juicy scorpion or a crunchy giant centipede. But first he needs to open his ears and eyes to find his dinner. Written by beloved children's author Heather Irbinskas, this illustrated book is a fun and daring story that teaches children of all ages about important members of our animal family. It also has an important message: look and listen to the world around you and you'll…

Synopsis: Even though her "almost sister" Alison mists the room daily with salt spray and sees to it that Iguana has a closet with a heating pad, a free library card, and her own e-mail address, the pet is restive (and peeling). It's winter in Schenectady, and Iguana wants sun -- just what's promised by a travel poster for Key West, Florida. Emboldened, she writes a good-bye to Alison, signing her name "Iguanna, " and, despite her innate fear of dogs,…

Synopsis: Centuries ago, a Spanish shipwreck left dozens of horses stranded on Assateague Island, off the coast of Virginia. For years they were free to roam on their new island home without human contact, until the neighboring island, Chincoteague, suffered a series of fires that devastated the town. The volunteer firefighters held a special event to raise money for a new fire truck, and so began the Wild Pony Swim that continues to this day. This unique…

Synopsis: With a simple text and vivid full-color photographs, Stephen R. Swinburne shows children a wide range of nature's exquisite designs. He invites children to open their eyes and look for patterns in water and on land, in the air and on the ground, and in their own neighborhoods. They will see the world as they've never seen it before.