DK Animal Encylopaedia
ISBN 0789464993 DK Hardcover 376 pages WB Price: $59.95
Book Description: How slowly does a sloth move? What's inside a camel's hump? Why can't a snake shut its eyes? Which fish can climb trees? Answers to thousands of intriguing questions about the animal kingdom and provides a fascinating insight into animal behavior, instincts, and survival. Magnificent Photography.

Animals In Winter
ISBN 0064451658 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) WB Price: $10.45
Have you ever seen a butterfly in the snow? Probably not. Butterflies can't survive cold weather, so when winter comes, many butterflies fly to warmer places. They migrate. Woodchucks don't like cold weather either but they don't migrate; they hibernate. Woodchucks sleep in their dens all winter long. Read and find out how other animals cope with winter's worst weather.Describes the many different ways animals cope with winter, including migration, hibernation, and food storage.

How Do Birds Find Their Way?
ISBN 006445150X Harper PB WB Price: $10.50
Migrating birds fly more than 10,000 miles between their summer and winter homes. How do they know the directions to go? Scientists present their theories here.

Why Frogs Are Wet
ISBN 006445195X Harper PB WB Price: $10.50
Frogs can jump thirty times their own body length, catch insects on the wing, and breathe underwater or on land. But they must always keep their skins wet. Read and find out why! 24.9 cms L x 20.5 cms W (0.14 kgs) 40 pages

Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs
ISBN 0064451305 Harper PB WB Price: $10.50
Explains the concept of a food chain and how plants, animals, and humans are ecologically linked.

What Color Is Camouflage?
ISBN 0064451607 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) WB Price: $10.45
What do a fawn and a hermit crab have in common? They both use camouflage to hide from their enemies. Young readers discover how some animals can virtually disappear into their surroundings.

Snakes Are Hunters
ISBN 0064450910 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) WB Price: $10.50
Young reptile fans will be fascinated with the explanation of how snakes find and kill their prey. Describes the physical characteristics of a variety of snakes and how they hunt, catch, and eat their prey. Poisonous snake enthusiasts will be delighted with two pages about rattlesnakes in this simple and readable explanation of an inherently interesting subject.

Spinning Spiders
ISBN 0064452077 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) WB Price: $10.50
In this book, featuring realistic artwork by Schindler, readers will learn about the silk spiders produce, the webs they spin, and the prey they capture in the newest addition to the series the ALA Booklist cited as one of the top-ten nonfiction series. Full colour.

Wiggling Worms At Work
ISBN 0064451992 Harper PB WB Price: $10.45
Crawling through the dirt, worms are hard at work, helping plants to grow. Worms help the fruit and vegetables we eat by loosening the soil and feeding the plants. This illustrated book explains how earthworms eat, move and reproduce, and how they help plants to grow. Full colour.

Ant Cities
ISBN 0064450791 Harper PB WB Price: $10.50
When you see ants running around a hill of dirt, they may not look like they are doing anything important; but each ant that lives in the hill has a special job. Some ants clean the nest or dig new tunnels. Others bring in food or store seeds to eat later. And in each ant city there is a queen ant who is busy laying eggs. This provides a beginning look at the fascinating world of ants--the variety of "cities" they build, the job each ant carries out, and the remarkable feats they can accomplish. Includes instructions for building an ant farm.Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1987 

Look Out For Turtles!
ISBN 0064451569 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) WB Price: $10.50
Turtles are among the oldest living creatures in the world. They have been on earth for nearly 200 million years! In "Look Out for Turtles!" readers will discover why these creatures have survived so long. Hard shells protect many turtles from harm. Colorful markings on their shells help some turtles to blend in with their surroundings. Different kinds of turtles can live almost anywhere on land or sea and can eat many kinds of plants and animals...Today turtles must struggle to survive. They are hunted, and threatened by pollution. There is less and less open space for turtles to live in. If turtles are going to be around for another 200 million years, they are going to need our help!

Honey in A Hive
ISBN 0064452042 Harper Paperback (4 to 9) WB Price: $10.50
Kids are introduced to the fascinating world of honey bees. These insects live and work together in hives, forming complicated societies with queen bees and workers.

The Big Bug Search
ISBN 0794510450 Usborne Paperback (3 to 9) WB Price: $13.95
From huge hairy spiders and slimy black slugs, to darting dragonflies and spindly stick insects, there are around 100 bugs hiding on every double-page of this book. Each beautifully illustrated picture puzzle shows a different part of the world, packed with the tiny creatures that live there. 

The Great Prehistoric Search
ISBN 0794510450 Usborne Paperback (3 to 9) WB Price: $15.95
The Great Prehistoric Search is more than just a challenging puzzle book -- it's also a fascinating look at life on Earth millions of years ago. Each beautifully illustrated double-page spread covers a different period of prehistoric time and is crammed full of creatures and plants for you to find. Get ready for hours of fun as you search for giant scorpions in prehistoric swamps, spot spiny stegosaurs on a Jurassic plain and find woolly mammoths stampeding through the snow.32.46 cms L x 22.86 cms W (0.19 kgs) 32 pages

The Best Book of Sharks
ISBN 0753458756 Kingfisher Paperback WB Price: $10.95
This gripping book offers amazing insight into the deep-sea lives of the creatures that have perennially captured children"s imaginations--where sharks live, what they feed on, how they bear their young.

DK Eyewitness Shark
ISBN 0751347418 DK Paperback 72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Learn why it is so important for sharks to be saved, why South Sea Islanders worship the shark, how the Earth's magnetic field affects shark migration, how a shark can detect its prey, what a great white looks like to a diver in an underwater cage, why sharks sometimes eat each other, and much, much more. 

DK Eyewitness Seashore
ISBN 0751364797 DK Paperback 72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Learn how a limpet grips the rock, how a crab grows a new leg, how a prawn becomes invisible, how seabirds catch fish, and how a sea otter sleeps at sea. Discover how long seaweed can grow, why hermit crabs live in secondhand shells, which shells bore holes in solid rock, where a puffin lays its eggs, and much, much more.

DK Eyewitness Insect
ISBN 0751364827 DK Paperback 72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Learn why bees make honey, how to identify insects, why leafcutter ants build underground nests, how diving beetles live and breathe in water, and how mosquitoes spread disease. Discover how a wasp's compound eyes work, which insects have ears on their knees, how wasp grubs feed on living caterpillars, how a butterfly can smell with its wings, and much, much more.

DK Eyewitness Jungle
ISBN 0751364886 DK Paperback 72 pgs WB Price: $13.95
Learn how paper wasps make their nest, how a siamang moves, how wax is taken from the wax palm, how geckos "fly" and how pitcher plants trap insects. Discover what red lemurs eat, how poison is taken from a poison dart frog, why bowerbirds build bowers, why canopy leaves have drip tips, where gorillas live and why chameleons change color, and much, much more.

Uncover A Shark
EAN 9781592231157 Silver Dolphin (8+) WB Price:$32.95
Fearsome and fascinating, sharks have an enduring appeal for kids. With this imaginative three-dimensional model-in-a-book kit, the great white can be easily built, deconstructed, and rebuilt layer by layer until each of its elements - cartilage, dentition, fins, gills, and then cardiopulmonary, digestive, and acute sensory systems - is understood. Included are discussions on interesting topics like shark fin soup, shark liver oil, and shark populations. With Uncover a Shark, kids can get up close and personal with a great white without getting bitten!30 cms L x 26.1 cms W (0.57 kgs) 16 pages

Totally Bugs
EAN 9781571454249 Silver Dolphin (8+) WB Price:$29.95
Create existing bugs or make your own with Totally Bugs! This fascinating and interactive book allows children to learn as they use their creativity. Includes a 32-page book and over 40 pieces to make 5 different bugs such as a black ant, stag beetle, ladybug, greenbottle fly, and orb weaver spider: Children will learn the answers to questions such as what bugs eat, why bugs are necessary for humans to survive, and what the difference is between a bug and an insect.28.30 cms L x 21.54 cms W (0.55 kgs) 32 pages

A Mother's Journey
ISBN: 1570916225 EAN: 9781570916229 Charlesbridge Paperback
(9 to 12) WB Price:$11.95
Acclaimed nonfiction author Sandra Markle presents the daring story of a mother emperor penguin's struggle to reach the sea, find food, avoid predators, and make her way back to her mate and their newborn chick before they starve. Alan Marks's luminous illustrations highlight the harsh conditions and stunning landscapes of Antarctica. Award: Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards | Honor Book | Nonfiction | 2006 ,27.8 cms L x 21.5 cms W (0.17 kgs) 32 pages