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Deadliest!: 20 Dangerous Animals
Steve Jenkins · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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What do a cape buffalo, a king cobra, and a puffer fish have in common? They're all deadly! Deadliest! showcases some of the planet's most threatening creatures. Steve Jenkins's Extreme Animals reader series explores nature's truly superlative animals with the help of illustrations,... |
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Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals
Nicola Davies · Candlewick
Pages: 108
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned picture book creators Nicola Davies and Petr Horácek team up for a captivating first look at animals around the world.Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods - animals are everywhere. In a remarkable collection... |
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Becoming Madeleine: A Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time by Her Granddaughters
Charlotte Jones Voiklis · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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This middle-grade biography explores the life and works of Madeleine L'Engle -- written by her granddaughters -- coming just in time for the all-new A Wrinkle in Time film, directed by Ava DuVernay.This elegant and insightful biography of Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was written... |
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Rodent Rascals
Roxie Munro · Holiday House
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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What is the smallest rodent in the world? What is the biggest? How long can rodents live? How do they find mates? In this wonderfully detailed new book from an award-winning author, life-sized illustrations of rodent species from around the world accompany simple, thorough text describing... |
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Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present
Andrea Pippins · Wide Eyed Editions
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover
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Join us on a journey across borders, through time and even through space to meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in a celebration of achievement. Meet figureheads, leaders, and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers... |
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Look at the Weather
BRITTA TECKENTRUP · Owlkids
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
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When you stop to think about it, weather is incredible: it's whimsical, varied, ever-present, sometimes destructive and other times, beautiful. This immersive illustrated nonfiction book is an invitation for readers to ponder weather and approach it with a newfound sense of understanding,... |
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One Day a Dot: The Story of You, The Universe, and Everything
IAN LENDLER · First Second
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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One Day a Dot explores the age-old question: Where did we come from? Where did everything come from?Starting with one tiny dot and continuing through the Big Bang to the rise of human societies, the story of our universe is told in simple and vivid terms. But the biggest question of all cannot... |
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Wild Swans
Xanthe Gresham · Barefoot Books
Pages: 48
Format: Paperback
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Young Eliza and her eleven brothers lives are transformed when a plague ravages the Kingdom of the North and kills their mother, the Queen. When their father remarries, their brilliant and unusual new stepmother becomes obsessed with finding a cure for the plague and protecting her new family... |
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Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America
Marc Favreau · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible true story of how Americans from all walks of life weathered one of the most turbulent periods in our nation's history--the Great Depression--and emerged triumphant.Crash tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more... |
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