Text and color photographs explore sound effect artists who work on movies and television shows. Explores the job of producing sound effects for video games, movies, television, and radio. Highlights individuals who work in sound design or as Foley artists. Includes a glossary, a list of terms commonly used in the business, resources for further information, and color photographs.

Text and color illustrations introduce frogs and their vital role in environmental balance in places all over the world.

Asks such questions as "Do little mice purr?" and "Do butterflies growl?" and then tells which animal makes each specific sound.

"A non-fiction look at the sounds that animals make and the reasons behind them."--

"A sweet, fun, and informative picture book about bat echolocation for kids 3-7. Written by a scientist who works with bats in his everyday life! It's time for Fiona the fruit bat to take her very first flight, but she's scared. How will she fly when she can't see in the dark? Mama just says, “listen.” But how will listening help her to see? Then she hears a mysterious sound from deep in her cave. To find out what's making that noise--and to finally...

"Listen closely to the sounds, often very loud, that frogs make without ever opening their mouths. Together they make a concert! Endnotes present facts and activities about these lively and fascinating creatures"--Provided by publisher.

In photographs and simple text, describes the wide variety of sounds made by animals in the zoo.

What could be more fun than an old-fashioned train ride? Off go the passengers, past the town, into the woods (shhh, shhh), over the bridge (clack, clack), into the tunnel (toot, toot), and back into the sunshine. Where is this train headed? Turn the shaped pages to find out!

"Try to guess which animal will appear on the next page from the colorful close-ups and clever clues from The Very Hungry Caterpillar."--

"Did you know that animals that live in one country don't always talk the same language as animals from somewhere else? Take a rooster, for instance. In English-speaking countries, he says cock-a-doodle-doo when he has a notion to announce himself or to greet the dawn. But in Spanish-speaking countries, he says ki-kiri-ki. Emerging readers will delight in identifying the animals depicted on each new page. And the bilingual text invites parent and...