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Anyone who has ever held a baby-or observed a nesting bird-will find much to inform and entertain in this enchantingly written and thoroughly researched book. Allport revels in the marvelous diversity of care in the animal world. She shows us our place in that world with great humor, knowledge, and common sense.
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Animal Books and Anne Caroll Moore
Anne of Green Gables: Further Reading
What Staff is Reading TODAY: Thanksgiving Edition
Anne of Green Gables: Further Reading
What Staff is Reading TODAY: Thanksgiving Edition
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These are the escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
45) Kitten's spring
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A young kitten explores the wilderness as other animals celebrate spring.
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 12
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Publisher Annotation: Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? And the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is Cricket immune to Queen Wasp's powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the HiveWings, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, Cricket has to hide, terrified of being discovered. Now she's...
47) How to be a cat
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In this tender board book, a kitten practices the basics of feline behavior over the course of a day. A single word of text per spread teaches readers "how to be a cat"-how to stretch, clean, pounce, feast-while the striking paper cuts illustrate the kitten's attempts to imitate an adult cat's mastery of each skill. At times, the kitten triumphantly succeeds, and at other times the kitten struggles, in vignettes that range from whimsical to profound....
48) The road home
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Illustrations and simple, rhyming text follow birds and woodland creatures as they journey to the nests and burrows they call home, past predators and other dangers.
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An international bestseller, this is an emotional and riveting story of the Owens' travel and adventurous life in the Kalahari Desert.?
"A remarkable story beautifully told...Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist."—Chicago Tribune
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand...
"A remarkable story beautifully told...Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist."—Chicago Tribune
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand...
51) Ice wolves
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Elementals (Amie Kaufman) volume 1
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Publisher Annotation: Everyone in Vallen knows that ice wolves and scorch dragons are sworn enemies who live deeply separate lives. So when twelve-year-old orphan Anders takes one elemental form and his twin sister, Rayna, takes another, he wonders whether they are even related. Still, whether or not they?re family, Rayna is Anders?s only true friend. She?s nothing like the brutal, cruel dragons who claimed her as one of their own and stole her away....
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Milkweed Editions
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2020.
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"From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us"--
53) Landfall
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Guardian Herd volume 3
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Nightwing quickly gathers an army, while a seriously injured Star races to maintain peace among the pegasi and stop a war that could take his life and leave Anok in ruins.
54) Sammy the seal
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Anxious to see what life is like outside the zoo, Sammy the seal explores the city, goes to school, and plays with the children but decides that there really is no place like home.
56) Twilight chant
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As twilight falls, some animals come out to graze while others are settling in for the night.
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Our first words, our first steps, these and so much more are things we celebrate! But when a bird flaps its wings for the first time, or a kitten makes its first climb-do they also celebrate? Celebrate! is a sweet and joyous rhyming picture book about life's milestones, how we celebrate, and wondering what else we might accomplish in our lives as we grow!
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