Synopsis: Why do animals play?With thoughtful text and sweetly realistic watercolor art, author and illustrator Lita Judge explores the importance of play in the animal kingdom. She shows how play teaches animals to defend themselves and survive in the wild. More adorably, Judge highlights how animals make friends―and also forgive.Grounded in detailed research, Play in the Wild is sure to captivate young readers while giving them an informative peek into…

Synopsis: Describe pandas y su comportamiento.

Synopsis: From the classic "Why do leopards have spots?" and the not-so-obvious "Why can't penguins fly?" to the amazing "How many ants can an anteater eat?" this book is packed with perennially asked questions about animals.

Synopsis: How far could you hop?If you hopped like a frog...you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap!Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift an object 50 times its own weight?Read this book and find out what you could do -- if you had the amazing abilities of animals! And there are endless possibilities for making more hilarious comparisons of your own. Get ready for ratio and proportion…

Synopsis: Who made tracks in the soft mud by the stream? Whose tracks are curving lines in the mud around the puddle? With simple text and a guessing-game format, children can explore the animal community in the forest. Directions for making plaster casts, track tracings, and track "traps" enable children to become track detectives in their own backyards.

Synopsis: A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of elephants, Earth's biggest land animals. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why elephants' trunks are so long.

Synopsis: Providing first facts about the animal world, this book on their homes is part of a series which describes their use of holes in trees, underground, caves, and burrows. It also explains how some animals and insects construct their own homes such as nests and beaver's lodges.

Synopsis: Ten thousand types of ants march on our Earth. All About Ants profiles the queens, the drones, and the worker ants that make up this crawling army.

Synopsis: In this acclaimed addition to the beloved Scientists in the Field series, author Amy Cherrix follows scientists investigating black bears--and other animals around the globe--who are rapidly becoming our neighbors in urban and suburban areas, with full-color photography. North Carolina's black bears were once a threatened species, but what happens when conservation efforts for a species are so successful that there's a boom in the population.…

Synopsis: "Based on their #1 kids podcast, Wow in the World, hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz take readers on a hilarious, fact-filled, and highly illustrated journey through the animal kingdom! Feathers, fins, fur, feet--the animal kingdom is made up of nearly 9 million known species! From flying fish to flightless birds, each living creature has a unique role to play in the life of planet Earth. In this book, Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz, hosts of the mega-…

Synopsis: From the beloved Caldecott Honor-winning author of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This comes another stunning, informative reader in the By the Numbers series. In this installment, Jenkins explores a wide range of facts and data about animals all over the world, some familiar, some new, but all fascinating! In this latest stunning, informative reader in Steve Jenkins's By the Numbers series, we dive deep into the world of animals and insects…

Synopsis: Introduces distinguishing characteristics, life cycles, and different types of grasshoppers.

Synopsis: With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It’s baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers—suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea…

Synopsis: Large, dramatic photographs of a variety of snakes and a brief fact–filled text will fascinate young, confident readers. Level 3 – includes varied sentence structure and paragraphs, challenging vocabulary presented in a clear context, and detailed diagrams, captions, fact boxes, interviews with experts. Special features include How Big?, Take a Close Look, Did You Know?, Words to Know, Fun Facts and 27 full color photographs, as well as a full…

Synopsis: A basic exploration of the appearance, behavior, and habitat of polar bears, Earth's biggest land predators. Also included is a story from folklore explaining why polar bears have short tails.

Synopsis: Rhyming text and illustrations depict how a child and various animals sleep.

Synopsis: Introduces the names for various kinds of baby animals, including calf, foal, and cub.

Synopsis: This reader relates the true story of dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown, who discovered the first fossilized skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex in the United States in 1902. Full color.

Synopsis: The fifth book in this popular series asks "If you could have any animal's nose, whose would you choose?"What if you woke up one morning and your nose wasn't yours? What If You Had An Animal Nose?--the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series--explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an animal's nose instead of your own! From the elephant's long trunk to a rhino's pointy horn, discover what it would be like if…