Picture This! Animals


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Graphs, maps and symbols illustrate essential facts about a variety of animals, from meat-eating hunters to adaptable amphibians.




Who Am I?


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Readers are given clues about an animal's characteristics and must use them to guess the identity of the creature.




Never Smile at a Monkey


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Presents an illustrated discussion of what not to do around various dangerous animals, with warnings about petting a platypus, touching a tang fish, or pulling a python's tail.




Forthcoming Books


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How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?


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Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quick reflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do such diverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structure to What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture book introduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different ways.




Animal World


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Provides illustrations and information about animals and their life cycles.




Ace Your Animal Science Project


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Can we build a bird feeder that keeps squirrels out? Where do earthworms like to live? Does color affect human emotions? Readers will learn the answers to these questions and more with the fun experiments in this book. Young scientists will observe and explore behaviors of animals' interactions with environments. Many experiments include ideas they can use for their science fair.




How to Clean a Hippopotamus


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How to Clean a Hippopotamus, a book about animal symbiosis, offers readers a close-up, step-by-step view of nature’s fascinating partnerships. Find out why a mongoose comes running when a warthog lies down, how a crab and an iguana help each other out, why ravens follow wolves, and more. Witness the ingenious lifestyles of some of the world’s most unusual animal partners in this book of curious biology, a symbiotic collaboration by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.




Coming to Know


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Grade level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, p, e, i, s, t.