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Actual Size
Accompanied by an easy-reading text, bright collages of insects, fish, and animals large and small illustrate the size of the creatures in relation to humans. End material includes additional information on each creature.
| Author: Jenkins, Steve |
HSE Descriptors:
science | math
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And So They Build
Each page depicts an unusual animal, insect, or bird and how it builds a home or nest.
| Author: Kitchen, Bert |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Animal Architecture
The author describes the shelters created by a wide variety of creatures from spiders to bats, from honeybees to beavers. The text is simple but some students may need help with technical vocabulary for which there is no glossary.
| Author: Dewey, Jennifer Owings |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Black Star, Bright Dawn
Bright Dawn, a teenaged Eskimo girl, takes her father's place in the grueling Iditarod, the 1000-mile dogsled race through the cold wilds of Alaska. In the process, she learns about herself, her family, and her culture.
Black Swan White Crow
The book introduces the reader to Haiku poetry that is accompanied by delicate and suggestive woodcut illustrations.
| Author: Lewis, J. Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets, A
This book includes many short poems, some childish and some more complex, written by contemporary Caribbean poets. It also includes fascinating biographies on each author.
| Author: Agard, John & Nichols, Grace |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading
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Counting on the Woods
Using a counting book format, the author combines rhymes with lovely color photographs that appeals to adults as well as children.
| Author: Lyon, George Ella |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
This informative, fun to read book combines a poetic description and a factual one of animals of the night. It is a book of wonderful rhythms and rhymes about night creatures with a sidebar of scientific facts and beautiful woodblock illustrations. The i
| Author: Sidman, Joyce |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | science
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Duck's Breath and Mouse Pie: A Collection of Animal Superstitions
This is a collection of 17 superstitions about animals. Collage illustrations are interesting. Historical notes at the end of the book explain the origins of the superstitions.
| Author: Jenkins, Steve |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Every Living Thing
Each story in this collection features an animal, and in every case the existence of the animal helps to foster the feelings of love or compassion in the people. The stories touch upon topics such as alcoholism, aging, loneliness, and foster parenting.
Faithful Elephants: A True Story
During WW II many zoo animals starved, by order of the Army, or had to be killed. The story, set in a Tokyo zoo, shows animals' helplessness in the face of human destruction.
| Author: Tsuchiya, Yukio |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Father Water, Mother Woods
These essays recount Paulsen's adventures alone and with friends, along the rivers and in the woods of Northern Minnesota. Paulsen shows us fishing, hunting, and camping as pleasure, as art, as companionship, and as sources of lessons about life.
Forest Fire
A fire caused by lightning is a part of the life cycle of the renewal of vegetation and animal life of the forest.
| Author: Fraser, Mary Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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I'm in Charge of Celebrations
A desert (Native American?) woman is asked if she is lonely and replies by telling about all the natural wonders she witnesses. The title comes from her idea of marking the calendar for the following year to celebrate whatever she saw. The illustrations
Into the Woods: A Woodland Scrapbook
In a scrapbook format, this book offers lots of interesting facts, Native American folktales, and traditional lore, all about the woods.
| Author: Krupinski, Loretta |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Kakapo parrot and the crusade to save it from extinction in its stunning native habitat down under in New Zealand. The book chronicles the incredible measures workers go to to help new birds hatch despite diffi
| Author: Montgomery, Sy |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives
Simple facts about animals paired with counting. The end of the book has in-depth descriptions of featured animals and math challenges.
| Author: Schaefer, Lola M. |
HSE Descriptors:
math | language arts - reading | science
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Midnight Zoo, The
When their Gypsy encampment is attacked by Germans during WWII, three Romanian children flee. In an abandoned town, they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories as everyone seeks to reclaim their lives and freedom.
| Author: Harnett, Sonya |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies | language arts - writing
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My Favorite Animal Families
Vivid photographs with short, approachable passages featuring basic facts about a variety of wildlife. Primarily focuses on mammals and their reproductive cycles, diet, and social behavior.This book highlights 14 animals that live in family groups.
| Author: Wilson, David |
HSE Descriptors:
science | language arts - reading
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Nearer Nature
The author writes reflectively of his winter walks on his Vermont farm and sketches the footprints, animals, and plants that capture his attention. An index enables the reader to find specific information. The descriptions are rich in detail and languag
| Author: Arnosky, Jim |
HSE Descriptors:
science | social studies
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North Country Night
This easy-to-read and stunningly illustrated book shows what animals do at night in the North Country during the winter.
| Author: San Souci, Daniel |
HSE Descriptors:
science | social studies
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One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals
Subtitled "the human-animal bond in history, science, and story," this fascinating book focuses on animals, real and not real, throughout history, particularly as they have interacted with humans.
| Author: Noyes, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
science | social studies
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Rabbit, the Fox, and the Wolf, The
The three creatures of the title confront each other in this wordless book with an unexpected conclusion.
Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988
This book chronicles the 1988 fire at Yellowstone National Park and the fire's after-effects. Many stunning photographs accompany the well written text.
| Author: Lauber, Patricia |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Swan Song
The poet and artist collaborated to create poetic, humorous post-mortems for extinct creatures. A timeline crawls across the bottom margin and back matter provides more information about the creatures and their habitats.
| Author: Lewis, J. Patrick |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Sweet Corn
The poet writes mostly of summer things and illustrates with black pen and watercolor images. One reader found the use of varied type faces disconcerting.
Talk, Talk
This Ashanti legend tells of the day when all the animate objects--animals, yams, stones, and dogs--began to talk and frighten the villagers.
| Author: Chocolate, Deborah |
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Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
This book offers a unique perspective on the biological "survivors" found in our environment by combining informational text passages with poetic verses. Check out the wild and crazy timeline on the end pages.
| Author: Sidman, Joyce |
HSE Descriptors:
science | language arts - reading
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Very Best of Friends, The
When a farmer dies, his wife deals with her grief by ignoring (hating) his favorite cat, until she finally realizes that they could find companionship with each other.
When Hunger Calls
This stunningly illustrated informational book describes the eating habits of animals from all over the world.
| Author: Kitchen, Bert |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Where Once There Was a Wood
With beautiful paper pulp illustrations and rich, alliterative text, the author raises the question of whether development is good ecology for the community.
Winter Across America
Part of a series on the seasons, Winter Across America is loosely structured around the photographs and packs a huge amount of natural history and scientific information about animals, migration, and weather. The strength of the book is in its g
| Author: Simon, Seymour |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Wolves
The author/illustrator presents fascinating, positive information about grey and red wolves at an easy reading level. A map and endnotes, More Ways of the Wolves and Wolf Legends and Myths, provide excellent extensions for teaching. The illustrations ha
| Author: Gibbons, Gail |
HSE Descriptors:
science
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Science > biology > zoology > animals > pets
Every Living Thing
Each story in this collection features an animal, and in every case the existence of the animal helps to foster the feelings of love or compassion in the people. The stories touch upon topics such as alcoholism, aging, loneliness, and foster parenting.
Gowanus Dogs
A homeless man meets some homeless dogs. The meeting changes everyone's life.
Marley and Me
This is a memoir about a family's "life and love with the world's worst dog." It's interesting and funny and sad. Reviewers report that this book appeals to non-readers who can read but don't.
Measuring Penny
A young girl, Lisa, fulfills a math assignment by finding numerous ways to measure her dog, Penny.
| Author: Leedy, Loreen |
HSE Descriptors:
math
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One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals
Subtitled "the human-animal bond in history, science, and story," this fascinating book focuses on animals, real and not real, throughout history, particularly as they have interacted with humans.
| Author: Noyes, Deborah |
HSE Descriptors:
science | social studies
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Traveling Cat, The
A young girl takes in a stray cat who stays long enough to have kittens before traveling on.
| Author: Lyon, George Ella |
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Tulip Sees America
The author tells a fictionalized version of her trip from the midwest to her new home in Oregon.
Very Best of Friends, The
When a farmer dies, his wife deals with her grief by ignoring (hating) his favorite cat, until she finally realizes that they could find companionship with each other.
World According to Dog, The
This is a charming collection of the author's poems and short essays about dogs written by teens.
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