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In the air, on the ground, and in the water, incredible tiny creatures are all around us! They may be small, but they live remarkable lives. The Book of Tiny Creatures introduces young learners to spiders, butterflies, worms, snails, and even the world's heaviest insect, the Little Barrier Island giant weta. This fun-filled book teaches children fascinating facts through interactive quizzes, detailed seek-and-find scenes, and hands-on activities,...
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"Bumble bees are rather charming, buzzing from flower to flower with their furry black and yellow bodies. Depending on where you live, the bees you see might be escapees from a greenhouse or "bumble bee factory." They might even be descendants of stowaways on Viking ships. Thanks to humans, bumble bees are world travelers, spreading to countries that never hosted bumble bees before. For centuries these insects pollinated our crops. But are they pushing...
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Scholastic Inc
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Español
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Buzz comes home from school to find that Fly Guy is 50 feet tall! WOW-ZAA! Luego de comerse un bocadillo de un cesto de basura radioactive, ¡Hombre Mosca crece hasta una altura de 15 metros! ¿Podrán Buzz y el científico encontrar la manera de encogerlo antes que lo ataquen la policía y los militares? After grabbing a snack from a radioactive trash can, Fly Guy grows to 50 feet tall! Can Buzz and the scientist figure out how to shrink him before...
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Masterpiece adventures volume 5
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English
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James invites Marvin and his cousin Elaine on a trip to the country, and it proves to be a very exciting adventure for the forever friends.
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Scholastic Inc
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English
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What if a blue whale and a mosquito had a fight? Who do you think would win? This nonfiction reader compares and contrasts two unlikely animals: a blue whale and a mosquito! Readers will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more. Then compare and contrast the battling pair before finally discovering the winner! This nonfiction series is full of facts, photos, and realistic illustrations, and it includes a range of mammals, sea creatures,...
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Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Enter the hilarious world of Sam Quigley, the strange-fact-obsessed owner of two stick insects called Twiggy and Wiggy in Exploding Beetles and Inflatable Fish. Sam really likes interesting facts, the kind that will make you shout "Wow! I never knew that." Things like: Woodlice don't pee-instead a smelly gas comes wafting out of their shells There is a fish with a stomach so stretchy it can swallow things twice as big as itself Bombardier beetles...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Did you know you share your home with monsters?! In this book explore the menagerie of tiny and unusual creatures?arthropods (insects, mites, and spiders)?found in our lawns and gardens, our food, our beds, our clothes, and even our eyelashes.
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"In this addition to the Scientists in the Field series, readers join scientists as they tackle something unusual in the world of ecosystems: colonization. Not a colonization by people, but one of cells, seeds, spores, and other life forms that blow in, fly in, float in, and struggle to survive on the beautiful but harsh new island of Surtsey."--
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2022]
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English
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From the beloved Caldecott Honor-winning author of What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? comes another stunning, informative reader in the By the Numbers series. In this installment, Jenkins explores a wide range of facts and data about animals all over the world, some familiar, some new, but all fascinating! In this latest stunning, informative reader in Steve Jenkins's By the Numbers series, we dive deep into the world of animals and insects. From...
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Peachtree
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[2021]
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English
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Leslie Bulion, award-winning educator favorite and master of science poetry, is back with a humorous exploration of the silk-spinning, bungee-jumping, hunting, trapping, trick-filled world of spiders! Meet spiders that spit silk, roll like wheels, scuba dive, hide under trap doors, strum tunes, and so much more. Watch as they find mates, find preyor find mates that become prey! Award-winning poet Leslie Bulion and illustrator Robert Meganck team up...
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One mean ant volume 3
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Well, here they are again. The ant, the fly, and the flea. Stuck doing tricks for the circus-goers every night and twice on Sundays. Stuck like a . . . well, you know. But with the help of Moth, a fellow performer with a pretty spectacular trick, the four plan their escape. Will it work? Can you teach an old moth not to fly into a light bulb? In a third tale buzzing with wordplay and wacky-eyed insects, acclaimed playwright and...
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One mean ant volume 2
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Ant and Fly are back! And this time they?re joined by Flea, newly escaped from the flea circus. Our mean Ant, the meanest ant there ever was, doesn?t think much of the tiny, annoying Flea, until Flea?s wits get them out of one sticky situation and . . . straight into another. Ant?s famous temper can?t save them now. The bugs are truly stuck with one another!
18) Hey, little ant
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Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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A song in which an ant pleads with the kid who is tempted to squish it.
19) Leap!
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English
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Award-winning JonArno Lawson's delightful circular story poem is a playful romp, much like a game of tag. With its rollicking rhythm and a rich array of action words --- besides leaping, the animals lunge, plunge, bound, gambol and lurch, for example --- this book will inspire and encourage children to move, making this an excellent introduction to the power of language. Award-winning Jos?e Bisaillon's beautiful mixed-media collage art provides visual...
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Masterpiece adventures volume 3
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English
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Marvin the beetle finds adventure when his human friend James takes him to school.
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