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2) Roxaboxen
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Language
English
Description
A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
About the book : From the tiny elf owl that weighs less than two ounces to the Eurasian eagle owl that can have a wing span of over five feet, author Laurence Pringle s OWLS! Strange and Wonderful provides clear, informative text that describes owls from beaks to talons, including their habitats, diet, mating habits, vision, physiology, digestion, and parenting. Accompanied by Meryl Henderson s beautiful and illuminating paintings, this book hits...
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English
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"On June 23, 2018, twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon's adventure. But when they turn to leave, rising floodwaters block their path out. The boys are trapped! Before long, news of the missing team spreads, launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. Combining firsthand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth...
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twelve well-known fairy tales, retellings, and newly-imagined tales, collected and illustrated by the award-winning husband-and-wife author-illustrator team, Alice and Martin Provensen.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Language
English
Description
Journey back to the Mesozoic Era, when fearsome dinosaurs roamed the land, menacing pterosaurs patrolled the skies, and the seas were filled with awesome reptiles. Find out how these creatures lived, why they died out, and what their fossil traces tell us.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Yuki Hattori is Japan's leading cat doctor, and to him cats are the most beautiful animals in the world. His advice comes with little illustrations showing exactly what to look for as a cat owner - including charts showing how to interpret their different meows, the direction of their whiskers and the way their tail is pointing!
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English
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"Animals are all around us. While we may not often see them, we can see signs that they've been there. Some signs might be simple footprints in snow or mud (tracks) and other signs include chewed or scratched bark, homes or even poop and pee (traces). Children will become animal detectives after learning how to "read" the animal signs left all around. Smart detectives can even figure out what the animals were doing! This is a perfect sequel to Mary...
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Language
English
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"The seas are filled with strangeness -- dancing feathers, goblin teeth, see-through heads -- but what is the strangest thing of all? Budding ocean explorers will delight in learning about 12 bizarre and little-known sea creatures, such as the goblin shark, hairy frogfish, vampire squid and more! Each animal will propose, then deny that it is the strangest thing in the sea, until finally the strangest thing of all is revealed."--
Author
Publisher
Balzer and Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This lyrical bedtime story celebrates the wondrous beauty of the natural world and the intimate family moments we share each night.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations., maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
""Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous explorers of all time, but he was neither the first nor last adventurer to ever stumble upon a great discovery. From the Silk Road of Asia to the icy shores of Antarctica, our knowledge of the world today is in large part due to several intrepid pioneers, risking life and limb for the sake of exploration. After all, setting off into the dark unknown requires an enormous amount of bravery. But every...
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Language
English
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Anthropologist Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, shares photographs and memories from throughout his twenty-five years of exploration in the Canadian Arctic, the North African deserts, the rain forests of Borneo and the Amazon, the southern Andes and the mountains of Tibet, the swamps of the Orinoco, the wilds of northern British Columbia, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Language
English
Description
Many thousand of years ago, when a sheet of ice up to a mile thick began to let go of the land, the Atlantic Ocean flooded great valleys that had been scooped out by glaciers, and the salty waves of an inland sea lapped the green hills of Vermont. Into this arm of the sea swam Charlotte.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
""Funny and fact-filled, Moles is another installment in the Superpower field guides series by author Rachel Poliquin, featuring full-color illustrations by Nicholas John Frith that will engage readers with witty narration and fun visual elements, inspiring readers to dig deep and see the world, both above and below ground, with new eyes""--
18) Gandhi
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born at a time when his home country was choked under the oppression of British rule. Many thought that violence was the only way to fight back, but Gandhi disagreed. Instead, he successfully used his teachings of non-violence and civil disobedience to win his country's freedom, and to promote his philosophy of peace and equality. In this biography for kids ages 8-12, see how Gandhi--called Mahatma, or 'great soul,'...
20) Truck trouble
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Language
English
Description
"Truck Trouble is a beautifully designed reader all about the troubles of a truck driver making special deliveries - will the parcels get there on time? Children will love to find out about a truck driver's day, from loading parcels to getting through traffic and thunderstorms to making someone's day with a special parcel! "
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