Nature Cat: What Does a Crow Know? (Level Up! Readers)


Book Description

Join Nature Cat and his friends from the hit PBS show Nature Cat as they learn about crows and the Olympics in this level 3 reader. Nature Cat knows crows are smart. To find out just how smart they are, he and his friends set up challenges for the crows to complete. But when their grouchy neighbor, Ronald, says crows are just silly birds, Nature Cat and his pals invite Ronald to compete against the crows to solve puzzles. Is Ronald smarter than a crow? With a fun story, short sentences, and some new words, this level 3 book is perfect for readers who can read sentences and want to enjoy whole stories! A fun section at the back of the book expands the learning on birds and reinforces new vocabulary. Level Up! Readers provide independent reading opportunities at every stage of reading comprehension! This title is available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook. GUIDED READING LEVEL: E LEXILE LEVEL: TK Nature Cat airs twice daily on PBS. Head to PBSlearningmedia.org for educational activities and materials coded to state, national, and Common Core standards for grades Pre-K through 3 to pair with this title.




Nature Cat: What Does a Crow Know? (Level Up! Readers)


Book Description

Practice reading word families in this level 3 reader as the friends from the hit PBS show Nature Cat find out the birds in their backyard are smart, smart, smart! Nature Cat knows crows are smart. To find out just how smart they are, he and his friends set up challenges for the crows to complete. But when their grouchy neighbor, Ronald, says crows are just silly birds, Nature Cat and his pals invite Ronald to compete against the crows to solve puzzles. Is Ronald smarter than a crow? With a fun story, short sentences, and some new words, this level 3 book is perfect for readers who can read sentences and want to enjoy whole stories! A fun section at the back of the book expands the learning on birds and reinforces new vocabulary. Level Up! Readers provide independent reading opportunities at every stage of reading comprehension! This title is available in hardcover, paperback, and eBook. Nature Cat airs twice daily on PBS and stars SNL personalities Kate McKinnon (Squeeks) and Kenan Thompson (Ronald)! Head to PBSlearningmedia.org for educational activities and materials coded to state, national, and Common Core standards for grades Pre-K through 3 to pair with this title.




Nature Cat: The Ocean Commotion


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Nature Cat and his pals discover all of Earth's oceans make one giant waterway connecting all the people of the world in this storybook based on the beloved hour-long Nature Cat special, complete with a poster! While celebrating the three-year anniversary of Hal and his favorite chew toy, Mr. Chewinsky, Nature Cat accidentally drops Mr. Chewinsky down a storm drain. The gang tracks Mr. Chewinsky through the sewer system, into a river, and out to the ocean. Oh, no! Can they rescue Mr. Chewinsky or will he become ocean litter? Thankfully, the ocean connects the pals to nature explorers from across the globe! Join Nature Cat, Hal, Squeeks, Daisy, Ronald, Houston, and their new friend, Nature Dog, as they navigate the ocean and learn how all waterways flow together. This full-color, hardback picture book comes with a pullout poster packed with ocean facts! Nature Cat airs twice daily on PBS.




Nature Cat: A Nature Carol


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Celebrate the winter wonderland in your own backyard this Christmas with a Nature Cat storybook, a perfect gift that comes complete with press-out ornaments and holiday cards! Join Hal, Squeeks, Daisy, Ronald, and Nature Cat in a new picture book based on their hour-long holiday special. When Nature Cat gets in the Christmas spirit, he starts making his holiday celebration as big, shiny, and loud as possible. He even decorates the forest and accidentally bothers the animals! Though after our hero falls asleep on Christmas Eve, he is visited by three friendly spirits, as played by his pals. Together, they visit the future, present, and long ago past when Nature Cat was a mere Nature Kitten. Will the adventure remind Nature Cat what really makes his heart merry? This full-color, hardback picture book comes with 6 press-out ornaments and 6 press-out cards that let little ones give others the gift of nature adventures! Nature Cat airs twice daily on PBS! Once his family leaves for the day, Fred the house cat transforms into Nature Cat, backyard explorer extraordinaire! Each episode in this hilarious PBS Kids series follows Nature Cat and his pals as they embark on action-packed adventures, perilous missions, and nature investigations packed with silly humor and "a ha" discovery moments.




Nature Cat: Backyard Explorer's Guide


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When his family leaves for the day, house cat Fred doesn't sit inside watching the world go by. He becomes Nature Cat, backyard explorer extraordinaire! Start a lifelong love of nature and science! Whether you live in a quiet town or busy city, you can discover the great outdoors all around you. Nature Cat, Hal, Squeeks, and Daisy help kids ages 6 to 9 answer questions like: Why do birds tweet? What's to love about mud? And when can you see a rainbow? Find and draw plants, animals, and other things that make up the environment. Plus, learn to make DIY tools to help you look even closer at nature. Make an underwater pond viewer, create a small compost bin, and more! You'll also help nature by conserving water and growing a seed. This full color, 80-page activity book is packed with facts, inspires outdoor play, and sparks curiosity. The pullout poster reminds kids to keep exploring. This is the must-have book for any Nature Cat fan or nature explorer! Nature Cat airs twice daily on PBS!




Do You Know Crows?


Book Description

Did you know... Crows have a repertoire of over 20 different cries. They can imitate the cries of other birds. The American crow is one of the most intelligent bird species. Some crows can reproduce several human words Find out all sorts of interesting things about crows and have a chuckle along the way.




Crow Planet


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There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. Crow Planet reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature." Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreciation of the world's natural order. Crow Planet richly weaves Haupt's own "crow stories" as well as scientific and scholarly research and the history and mythology of crows, culminating in a book that is sure to make readers see the world around them in a very different way.




Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature


Book Description

"David Quammen is simply the best natural essayist working today."--Tim Cahill, author of Lost in My Own Backyard "Lively writing about science and nature depends less on the offering of good answers, I think, than on the offering of good questions," said David Quammen in the original introduction to Natural Acts. For more than two decades, he has stuck to that credo. In this updated version of curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs (how did they change the life of a dyslexic Vietnam vet?), and cloning (can it save endangered species?). This revised and expanded edition best-loved "Natural Acts" columns, which first appeared in Outside magazine in the early 1980s, and includes recent pieces such as "Planet of Weeds," an influential new Natural Acts is an eye-opening journey that will please both Quammen fans and newcomers to his work. Song lyrics have been redacted from this ebook owing to permissions issues.




Leonard (My Life as a Cat)


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He’s not a stray house cat, he’s an immortal being. And now he must choose whether to return to his planet or remain with his new human friend in a humorous, heart-tugging story from the author of I, Cosmo. The cat that Olive rescues from a flood has a secret: he’s not really a cat at all, but an alien who crashed to Earth on a beam of light. The cat, whom Olive names Leonard, was prepared to visit the planet as a human—but something went wrong. Now Leonard may never know what it’s like to hold an umbrella, go bowling, or host a dinner party. (And his human jokes still need some work: Knock, knock. Who’s there? Just Leonard. It is me.) While Olive worries about whether she will have to move after her mom and her new boyfriend get back from their summer vacation, Leonard tries to figure out how to get from South Carolina to Yellowstone National Park, because if he’s not there at the end of the month, he’ll miss his ride home. But as Olive teaches Leonard about the beautiful and confusing world of humans, he starts to realize how much he cares about this particular one. A sweet and dryly funny story about what it means to be human—and what it means to be home.




Hollow Kingdom


Book Description

A finalist for the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor! "The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this big-hearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse, where a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author). S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. starts to think something's not quite right. His tried-and-true remedies—from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis—fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. Local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of Seattle's dangerous new predators. Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV. What could possibly go wrong? Includes a Reading Group Guide.




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