This book introduces readers to a range of endangered animals found in Asia. Readers learn basic facts about each animal, and also why the animal's habitat is threatened. The book also considers what people can do to help, both at an international level and at the level of the readers themselves. Habitat maps, fact boxes, labels, and captions all combine to aid understanding.
Oahu tree snails and pink velvet worms are two examples of endangered invertebrates. Few of them exist in the wild. Other invertebrates have already gone extinct. What hurts these animals? What can you do to help? Listen to this book to find out! Please note: The original source audio for this production includes noise/volume issues. This is the best available audio from the publisher.
Count from 1 otter pup to 10 baby crayfish as readers learn about the special relationships of baby and mom mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects that make their home in the Okefenokee Swamp. A helpful guide to swamp flora and fauna is included. Modeled after the song "Over in the Meadow" by Olive A. Wadsworth.
These fun-filled, informative activity books come complete with 24 bright, full-color stickers to create an interactive learning experience for young readers!
The Really Amazing Animal Book a really amazingly cluttered animal book of photographs and goofy drawings, accompanied by a goggle-eyed rubber alligator-cum-host, who asks questions that are answered (sort of) in double-page spreads. Punchy headlines and two or three sentences introduce the topic, e.g., under ``Powerful Poisons'' are photos of ``stabbing stingers'' (a sea anemone), ``fatal fang…
The study of animals is called Zoology, and it is one of the most absorbing subjects in the world. There are about one million different kinds of animals on earth - some very large, and some so small you will need a microscope to see them - and every one has its own interesting points.
Ripley's Believe It or Not!-authority on the strange and unusual-and Scholastic present the first of four incredible collections of the world's weirdest, wackiest facts. Believe it! Did you know... ...that hippo sweat looks like blood? ...that a tiger's roar can be heard up to two miles away? ...that golden eagles will attack airplanes that fly too close to their nests? Robert Ripley explo…
From the largest whale to the smallest shrew, Animals Born Alive and Well offers a wealth of information on mammals, and a source of pleasure for any nature lover with a new eye-catching cover! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Browsers and young students alike will enjoy these lively question and answer books with their unique mix of realistic illustration and engaging cartoons. The enticing questions will amaze, amuse and inspire, while the highly visual format encourages kids to keep reading.
Use World Book's World of Animals as an independent research station where kids can explore and learn about animals on their own. Teachers also can use the animal comparisons to demonstrate comparing and contrasting and then extend the lesson into a writing prompt in which kids flesh out a comparison chart to paragraph form. Use the app to teach common names and scientific classifications of an…