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Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text follow a colony of Emperor penguins as they emerge from the sea, find mates, care for their eggs, and are reunited when chicks have hatched. Includes author's note about Emperor penguins and challenges threatening the species.
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"Leopards are known for being shy and elusive, and leopard mothers are even more so. Imagine, then, having the rare opportunity to follow and photograph a mother leopard and her cubs. When world-renowned nature photographer Suzi Eszterhas was given the chance to do so, she jumped on a plane to Botswana. And through this collection of informative diary entries and stunning photos, readers are able to share this rare privilege. This compelling chronical...
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"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Fox? No one, it seems. The fox dreams of being the terror of the barnyard. But no one is intimidated by him, least of all the hens? When he picks a fight with one, he always ends up on the losing end. Even the wolf, the most fearsome beast of the forest, can't teach him how to be a proper predator. It looks like the fox will have to spend the rest of his life eating turnips. But then the wolf comes up with the perfect...
8) I heart you
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"A rhyming picture book about the loving parent-child relationship in animal and human families"--
10) Insects
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of insect young.
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Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of the year. In single file, the penguins march...
12) Birds
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of baby birds.
14) Fish
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of baby fish.
15) A mama for Owen
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When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami separates a young African hippopotamus from his mother, he finds a new snuggle partner in Mzee the giant tortoise. Based on a true story.
16) Mammals
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of baby mammals.
17) Tigress
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Lyrical prose describes how a mother tigress teaches her two cubs to hunt and survive on their own. Includes sidenote tiger facts throughout.
18) Penguin chick
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Describes how a penguin chick depends on its parents to survive in the Antarctic.
19) Amphibians
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of baby amphibians.