From Caterpillar to Butterfly (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1)
by Deborah Heiligman
from HarperTrophy
A caterpillar comes to school in a jar. The class watches the caterpillar each day as it grows and changes. Soon, it disappears into a hard shell called a chrysalis. Then the chrysalis breaks, and a beautiful butterfly flies out of the jar! This is a perfect beginner's guide to the mystery of metamorphosis.
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor Book)
by Robin Page
from Houghton Mifflin
A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this beautifully illustrated interactive guessing book by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
What's It Like to Be a Fish? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)
by Wendy Pfeffer
from HarperTrophy
How can fish live in water? Why don't they drown? The answer to this fishy question and more can be found in this latest addition to the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. The book clearly explains how a fish's body is perfectly suited to life underwater, just as our bodies are suited for life on land.
Best Children's Science Books 1995 (Science Books and Film)
The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Dover Science Books)
by Thornton W. Burgess
from Dover Publications
Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed ... and Revealed
by David Schwartz
from Tricycle Press
Ten creatures await, camouflaged in artful, full-page photographs, while playful poems offer clues about each animal's identity and whereabouts. Think you've spotted one? Lift one of ten gatefolds to find out. A full page of fascinating information accompanies each animal so readers can learn how nature's camouflage serves hunter and hunted alike. Why do fawns have spots during their first year of life? How did killdeer birds get their name? What makes a crab spider so good at ambushing its prey?
An Egg Is Quiet
by Dianna Hutts Aston
from Chronicle Books
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder.
The evocative text is sure to inspire lively questions and observations. Yet while poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to more than 60 types of eggs and an interesting array of egg facts. Even the endpapers brim with information. A tender and fascinating guide that is equally at home being read to a child on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.
Zoo - ology
by Joelle Jolivet
from Roaring Brook Press
Peterson First Guide to Insects of North America (Peterson First Guides(R))
by Christopher Leahy
from Houghton Mifflin
Peterson First Guides are the first books the beginning naturalist needs. Condensed versions of the famous Peterson Field Guides, the First Guides focus on the animals, plants, and other natural things you are most likely to see. They make it fun to get into the field and easy to progress to the full-fledged Peterson Guides.
Butterflies Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)
by Jan Sovak
from Dover Publications
Wiggling Worms at Work (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
by Wendy Pfeffer
from HarperTrophy
Crawling through the dirt, worms are hard at work, helping plants to grow. Worms help the fruit and vegetables we eat by loosening the soil and feeding the plants. Read and find out about these wiggling wonders!
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