Sandra Markle
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Even before they're born, baby sharks have to be tough to survive. Some that grow inside their mothers compete with their womb-mates for food, space, and their very lives. Others have to escape as soon as their mothers give birth to avoid becoming her tasty snack. From day one, baby sharks then have to figure out how to make it in an ocean teeming with predators. Brilliant color photographs reveal how shark pups grow from tiny eggs into giant...
7) Crocodiles
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the lives of crocodiles, focusing on how they hunt their prey.
9) Wolves
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the lives of wolves that focuses on how they hunt and how they raise their cubs.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A mother emperor penguin is charged with a special duty: to bring food to her newborn chick. But the closest food is in the open sea, miles from the penguin breeding ground. While the father penguin incubates the egg as it develops into a chick, the mother must trek far across the pack ice, dodging predators and battling bitter cold to bring back the food her baby desperately needs.
12) Rescues!
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Using technology as well as brains and bravery, rescuers put themselves in harm's way to save others. Includes information of how the global positioning system works for locating victims, what the heart-lung machine does and how robots detect people buried in earthquakes or other disasters.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Golden lion tamarins are found only in Brazilian forests. These small, remarkable monkeys once had plenty of space to roam and claim family territories. But years of deforestation caused their numbers to shrink. They were in serious danger of becoming extinct. In order to find out why, scientists studied the animals in zoo settings, but they were not reproducing, so scientist had to solve that mystery first. A real concern was that If scientists...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Columbus set out on the journey that would make him famous, and take him to the New world. He and his crew were the first Europeans to see the astounding variety of wildlife in the part of the world we now call the Americas. Here, taken from his ship's logs, is an account of the creatures that fascinated and amazed Columbus and his crew, from flocks of riotously colored parrots to ten-inch-long lizards fit for a feast. Brought to life...
18) Family pack
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A young wolf, taken from her pack in Canada to Yellowstone National Park, struggles alone to master the skills of hunting and survival until she finds a lone male and begins a new pack with him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
" Spend a day with carnivorous dinosaurs in this fantastic new series from Sandra Markle, the bestselling author of the What If You Had... series! What if you could spend a day with your favorite animals? What would you eat? How would you play? Would you ever want to leave?Pull up a chair and get ready to dine with carnivorous dinosaurs in the third book in the Could You Ever... series! Learn all about what different meat-eating dinosaurs ate, when...
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