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10 best books like Curious Critters (David FitzSimmons): Red-eyed Tree Frog, Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs, Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey, A Nest Is Noisy: (Nature Books for Kids, Children's Books Ages 3-5, Award Winning Children's Books), A Chicken Followed Me Home!: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl, Flight of the Honey Bee, Giant Squid, Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree, Galápagos George, Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature

Red-eyed Tree Frog
AuthorJoy Cowley
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Category: Nature
In a tropical rain forest in Central America, a red-eyed tree frog spends the...
Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs
AuthorPatricia Lauber
ISBN0064451305
Informative and intriguing, this science book teaches children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth. Every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival, no matter how big or how small. Lively drawings from Holly Keller illustrate...
Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
AuthorLoree Griffin Burns
ISBN0761393420
Some farms grow vegetables or grains, and some raise cows, sheep, chickens, or pigs. But have you ever heard of a butterfly farm? How do you raise a butterfly?

On a farm in Costa Rica, workers care for these delicate, winged creatures as they change from eggs to caterpillars to pupae. Like any...
A Nest Is Noisy: (Nature Books for Kids, Children's Books Ages 3-5, Award Winning Children's Books)
AuthorDianna Hutts Aston
ISBN1452127131
From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, A Butterfly Is Patient, and A Rock Is Lively comes this gorgeous and informative look at the fascinating world of nests. From tiny bee hummingbird nests to orangutan nests high in the rainforest canopy, an incredible variety of nests...
A Chicken Followed Me Home!: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl
AuthorRobin Page
ISBN1481410288
Why did the chicken cross the road? To follow you home! Learn all about a not-so-basic bird in this delightful nonfiction picture book.

What’s that? A chicken followed you home? Now what do you do?

Celebrated author-illustrator Robin Page leads a step-by-step, question-and-answer-style...
Flight of the Honey Bee
AuthorRaymond Huber
ISBN0763667609
Follow the flight of a honey bee as she searches for nectar to sustain her hive and, along the way, pollinates flowers to produce seeds and fruits.

A tiny honey bee emerges from the hive for the first time. Using sunlight, landmarks, and scents to remember the path, she goes in search of pollen...
Giant Squid
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN1596435992
The giant squid is one of the most elusive creatures in the world. As large as whales, they hide beyond reach deep within the sea, forcing scientists to piece together their story from those clues they leave behind.

An injured whale's ring-shaped scars indicate an encounter with a giant squid....
Tree of Wonder: The Many Marvelous Lives of a Rainforest Tree
AuthorKate Messner
ISBN1452112487
Deep in the forest, in the warm-wet green, 1 almendro tree grows, stretching its branches toward the sun. Who makes their homes here?

2 great green macaws,
4 keel-billed toucans,
8 howler monkeys,
16 fruit bats,
32 fer-de-lance vipers,
64 agoutis,
128 blue morpho...
Galápagos George
AuthorJean Craighead George
ISBN0060287934
This is the story of the famous Lonesome George, a giant tortoise who was the last of his species, lived to be one hundred years old, and became known as the rarest creature in the world. His story gives us a glimpse of the amazing creatures inhabiting the ever-fascinating Galapagos Islands.

Renowned...
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature
AuthorSarah C. Campbell
ISBN1620916274
Nature’s repeating patterns, better known as fractals, are beautiful, universal, and explain much about how things grow. Fractals can also be quantified mathematically. Here is an elegant introduction to fractals through examples that can be seen in parks, rivers, and our very own backyards....
Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805089373
In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation. Maria Merian was only a child, but she disagreed. She watched carefully as caterpillars spun themselves cocoons, which opened to reveal summer birds, or butterflies and moths. Maria...
Coyote Moon
AuthorMaria Gianferrari
A howl in the night.

A watchful eye in the darkness.

A flutter of movement among the trees.

Coyotes.

In the dark of the night, a mother coyote stalks prey to feed her hungry pups. Her hunt takes her through a suburban town, where she encounters a mouse, a rabbit, a flock...
Raindrops Roll
AuthorApril Pulley Sayre
Discover the wonder of water in this refreshingly fun and fascinating exploration of rain, raindrops, and the water cycle from the creator of Rah, Rah, Radishes! and Go, Go Grapes!

Raindrops drop. They plop. They patter. They spatter. And in the process, they make the whole world feel fresh...
Just a Second
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0618708960
What can happen in just a second,
a minute, or an hour? How can we measure time?
The flap of a vulture’s wing.
A crocodile’s heartbeat.
The weight of a baby blue whale.
The life of a mayfly.
These increments of time may sound a bit strange, but they are all fascinating ways...
The Giant Carrot
AuthorJan Peck
ISBN0803718233
A TALL tale about the power of teamworkWhen sweet Little Isabelle?s family plants a carrot seed one day, tall Papa Joe, wide Mama Bess, and strong Brother Abel all do their part. But when Little Isabelle wants to help too, Brother Abel just laughs. ?What can you do?? he asks. ?I?ll sing and dance to the carrot...
If You Find a Rock
AuthorPeggy Christian
ISBN0152393390
Think of all the rocks there are: the skipping rocks, the splashing rocks, and the chalk rocks. Whether the found treasures are climbing rocks or wishing rocks, children can't help collecting them. With joyful text and luminous photographs, If You Find a Rock celebrates rocks everywhere--as well...
Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why
AuthorLita Judge
ISBN1596436468
A gorgeously illustrated tribute to birds of all kinds and the fantastic, funny, fascinating things that they do.

Birds have lots of ways of communicating: They sing and talk, dance and drum, cuddle and fight. But what does all of the bird talk mean?
Filled with gorgeous illustrations,...
What If You Had Animal Teeth!?
AuthorSandra Markle
My class and I recently read What If You Had Animal Teeth! This book was written by Sandra Markle. The nonfiction book has information that teaches you about animal teeth. It is full of true facts and photographs.

In the book, Sandra Markle uses a really cool idea to get readers involved. Instead...
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