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Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Buddy likes looking at and collecting rocks. Mama suggests they visit the local nature center. They hike the Blue Diamond Trail to five rock stops. They meet Roxie, a Rock Ridge Ranger. Buddy learns lots about bedrock, erosion, and how rocks are formed. He finds out many surprising things about rocks.
Author
Publisher
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What turns the rain on in the sky and brings the sun to make things dry? How many shells are on the shore? Millions? Billions? even more? -- In thirteen engaging couplets, Marcus Pfister opens children's eyes to the wondrous mysteries all around them.
Questions about the wonders of Nature.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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.
Publisher
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"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.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Crinkleroot, who was "born in a tree and raised by bees," guides young readers through the natural world, taking them on a journey through the seasons, and giving examples of things they can do in their own backyards to protect the environment.
16) Just a second
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"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....
18) Earth and nature
Author
Series
Publisher
Twirl
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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.
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