Materials

This popular series introduces simple science topics using everyday situations and objects that readers can recognize in the world around them. Activities and questions are presented to encourage active thinking about the concepts. The new edition features updated text and photographs and more captions and labels to support the presentation of key ideas.

The grasshopper and other animal poems

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9812087265

Collation

32 pages : illustration : 25 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

811 MAN

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