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Owls! Strange and Wonderful
Laurence Pringle · Boyds Mills Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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From the tiny elf owl that weighs less than two ounces to the Eurasian eagle owl that can have a wing span of over five feet, author Laurence Pringle's OWLS! Strange and Wonderful provides clear, informative text that describes owls from beaks to talons, including their habitats, diet,... |
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What If You Had An Animal Nose?
Sandra Markle · Scholastic (Us)
Pages: 32
Format: Print book
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What if you woke up one morning and your nose wasn't yours? What If You Had An Animal Nose?--the next imaginative book in the What If You Had series--explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an animal's nose instead of your own! From the elephant's long... |
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Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song
Kathryn Erskine · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
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Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid -- a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz... |
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Walk with Me
Jairo Buitrago · Groundwood Books
Pages: 35
Format: Print book
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A deceptively simple, imaginative story depicting the complex emotional reality of a girl whose father no longer lives at home.The girl conjures up an imaginary companion, a lion, who will come with her on the long walk home from school. He will help her to pick up her baby brother from... |
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Hooray for Books!
BRIAN WON · HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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Turtle has looked everywhere for his favorite book, but it's nowhere to be found! Maybe his book was borrowed by Zebra, Owl, Giraffe, Elephant, or Lion. As Turtle searches, his friends offer to share their own favorite stories, but other books just won't do. Or is it time for Turtle to try something... |
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The Bee Book
CHARLOTTE MILNER · DK Children
Pages: 48
Format: Hardcover
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Explore the secret world of bees: how they live, how they work, how they support each other and their hive.DK's The Bee Book is a wonderful introduction to the humble honeybee: nature's hardest worker, and much more than just a provider of honey! Bees are incredibly industrious,... |
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Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties: From the Creator of Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey · Graphix
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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He was the best of dogs... He was the worst of dogs... It was the age of invention... It was the season of surprise... It was the eve of supa sadness... It was the dawn of hope... Dog Man, the newest hero from the creator of Captain Underpants, hasn't always been a paws-itive addition to the police... |
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Truck Full of Ducks
Ross Burach · Scholastic Press
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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Did you call for a truck full of ducks? Bernie is on the road to make a duck delivery when one of the ducks EATS the directions. Oh no! How will he find his customer? Join the flock on this wacky call-and-response ride to find out just WHO ordered a truck full of ducks -- and why! Ross... |
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Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs
Carol Murray · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
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A nonfiction picture book of poetry about fascinating insects with accompanying facts, notes, and illustrations by the Caldecott-winning Melissa Sweet.Pray tell us, Mr. Mantis,Do you pray or simply prey?Do you scout about for victims Or fold your hands all day?In addition to the playful... |
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A Big Day for Baseball
MARY POPE OSBORNE · Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Jackie Robinson and solve a mystery in the #1 bestselling Magic Tree House chapter book series! PLAY BALL! Jack and Annie aren't great baseball players . . . yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps... |
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