A version of the cumulative song "The Green Grass Grew All Around," set in Africa.

24 adventures that reveal the complex ecosystems of plants and animals in the woods, at the beach, and in a city park. Detailed, scientifically based drawings help young scientists identify hundreds of North American plants and animals, while dozens of fun projects include keeping a journal, conducting field experiments, and exploring nature with all five senses.

What's the biggest mathematical mystery in nature? Fibonacci numbers! The pattern creeps up in the most unexpected places. It's clear that math holds secrets to nature and that nature holds secret numbers.

"Nature's repeating patterns, better known as fractals, are beautiful, universal, and explain much about how things grow. Fractals can also be quantified mathematically. Here is an elegant introduction to fractals through examples that can be seen in parks, rivers, and our very own backyards."--Amazon.com.

"Mama Earth looks after nature's plants and animals throughout the year, singing lullabies to fat bears in the fall, dressing evergreens in icicles in winter, and waking up the crocuses in spring. And in the summer, Mama Earth sends warm sunbeams to her beloved children, so they can play outside and enjoy the amazing world around them"--Dust jacket.

"How Cool Is This?" is a fun-packed compendium of inventions and gizmos ranging from the great and the good to the obscure and offbeat. Each spread features a single brilliant invention, using a colorful graphic approach to explain in an intuitive, visual style how the object works. Full color.

"This non-fiction picture book explores time and how we think about it in a different way - as a series of events in the natural world (some of them directly observable, others not) that take place in a given unit of time. Steve Jenkins' extraordinary illustrations will accompany this engaging look at time. Just a Second is visualized as a linear series of illustrations and captions, starting with a second, a minute, an hour, a month, and a year....

"What is Earth's surface made of? Why do animals migrate? Which natural resources are renewable? Learn the answers to these questions and many more in this engaging and indispensable resources"--Back cover.

Describes a variety of animals and insects that can be found close to home and offers tips on how to observe them.