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6) Ostriches
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English
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Publisher Annotation: This third installment in the hilarious and highly-illustrated full-color Superpower Field Guide series features the silly-looking, surprisingly fierce Ostrich. This two-toed torpedo may have the largest eyes of any animal on dry land, but it can outrun most horses!
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What on Earth Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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So you think you're special? Just because people have built cities, invented pop-up toasters and put people on the Moon that they are somehow different from (or better than) other living things? Well it's time to think again! Humanimal explores the interconnections of the human and natural worlds in ways you never before imagined Inside you will discover how slime molds learn how to navigate through a maze; how rats are ticklish and how it makes them...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
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English
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Does your child love quirky, furry creatures? This children's book about the beloved Australian quokka will be perfect for them. Children will be fascinated to find out why this friendly creature is described as one of the happiest animals on the planet, and that the bouncy quokka is actually related to kangaroos and wallabies. Fascinating facts are paired with adorable photographs of quokkas, providing an ideal balance of words and images for children...
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Peachtree
Pub. Date
[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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English
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National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants-turtles-and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on time and healing.
When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles...
14) Being frog
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Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Frogs are amazing creatures, and this book offers young readers an up-close and revealing peek at their everyday lives. Follow them from egg to tadpole to froglet crawling up onto land for the first time. Watch them resting on a favorite log, searching for food, and leaping through the air. And see how frogs are unique, individual beings with rich lives all their own in the wild. 32pp., Color Photos.
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A book of insects, with a focus on their 'super powers'--their extraordinary and very real abilities--and an art/design style that evokes comic-book-hero-and-villain awesomeness. The book will include profiles of the animals and their powers, mixed with spreads that compare, contrast, and pit the insects against each other in a kind of 'who would win??' action format. Head-to-head combat! Astounding weapons and abilities! Awesomeness! Plus: science."--...
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Big Picture Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Best-selling illustrator Britta Teckentrup explores the world of reptiles in a sumptuously illustrated nonfiction book. There are reptiles everywhere! Some of them live in jungles, some of them in the savannah, and some may be in your backyard! Young readers will learn where in the world all sorts of animals can be found and all the weird and wonderful things about them that they never imagined were true. This third in a popular nonfiction series...
19) Different? Same!
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English
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The zebra gallops, the bumblebee flies, the lemur leaps and the tiger prowls - "But look closer now … We all have STRIPES!" This clever exploration of animal characteristics shows how each animal in diverse groups of four is completely different in many ways, but the same as the others in one significant way. Again and again, readers will be surprised at how animal traits come in many fascinating varieties! Think you know what makes animals different...
20) Sharks
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English
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Describes the physical characteristics of sharks and different kinds of sharks.
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