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Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard

10 best books like Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard (Annette LeBlanc Cate): The Animal Book, The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever, Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children, Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin, Frog Song, Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives, Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?, No Monkeys, No Chocolate

The Animal Book
AuthorSteve Jenkins
Animals smooth and spiky, fast and slow, hop and waddle through the two hundred plus pages of the Caldecott Honor artist Steve Jenkins’s most impressive nonfiction offering yet. Sections such as “Animal Senses,” “Animal Extremes,” and “The Story of Life” burst with fascinating...
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
AuthorH. Joseph Hopkins
ISBN1442414022
Unearth the true story of green-thumbed pioneer and activist Kate Sessions, who helped San Diego grow from a dry desert town into a lush, leafy city known for its gorgeous parks and gardens.

Katherine Olivia Sessions never thought she’d live in a place without trees. After all, Kate grew...
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
AuthorJan Pinborough
Once upon a time, American children couldn’t borrow library books. Reading wasn’t all that important for children, many thought. Luckily Miss Anne Carroll Moore thought otherwise! This is the true story of how Miss Moore created the first children’s room at the New York Public Library, a bright,...
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
AuthorMichelle Markel
ISBN0061804428
When Clara Lemlich arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor, that she was expected to grow up fast.

But that did not stop Clara.

She went to night school, spent hours studying...
Parrots Over Puerto Rico
AuthorSusan L. Roth
ISBN1620140047
Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots as green as their island home. . . . These are Puerto Rican parrots. They lived on this island for millions of years, and then they nearly vanished from the earth forever.

Puerto Rican parrots, once abundant, came perilously close to extinction...
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0375867120
As a child in the late 1800s, Horace Pippin loved to draw: He loved the feel of the charcoal as it slid across the floor. He loved looking at something in the room and making it come alive again in front of him. He drew pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Even during WWI, Horace filled...
Frog Song
AuthorBrenda Z. Guiberson
ISBN0805092544
Frog Song describes the lives of eleven different kinds of frogs and toads, from their croaks and bellows, to their habitats, to their birthing methods. (The male Darwin's frog, for example, carries its tadpoles in its vocal sacs for seven weeks as they grow.) A note in the back gives more detail about...
Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives
AuthorLola M. Schaefer
ISBN1452107149
In one lifetime, a caribou will shed 10 sets of antlers, a woodpecker will drill 30 roosting holes, a giraffe will wear 200 spots, a seahorse will birth 1,000 babies.

Count each one and many more while learning about the wondrous things that can happen in just one lifetime. This extraordinary...
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?
AuthorRita Gray
Woodpecker calls from a tree, "cuk-cuk-cuk." Starling sings, "whistle-ee-wee." But have you heard the nesting bird?

In this book, we hear all the different bird calls in counterpoint to the pervasive quiet of a mama bird waiting for her eggs to hatch. Fun and informative back matter takes...
No Monkeys, No Chocolate
AuthorMelissa Stewart
ISBN1580892876
Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist?

This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees...
Henry and the Cannons: An Extraordinary True Story of the American Revolution
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN1596432667
Before Washington crossed the Delaware, Henry Knox crossed Massachusetts in winter—with 59 cannons in tow.

In 1775 in the dead of winter, a bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston—225 miles of lakes, forest, mountains, and few roads. It was a feat...
Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives
AuthorElizabeth Rusch
ISBN0547503504
“At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets.” Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide...
Something to Prove: The Great Satchel Paige vs. Rookie Joe Dimaggio
AuthorRobert Skead
ISBN0761366199
In 1936, the New York Yankees wanted to test a hot prospect named Joe DiMaggio to see if he was ready for the big leagues. They knew just the ballplayer to call--Satchel Paige, the best pitcher anywhere, black or white. For the game, Paige joined a group of amateur African-American players, and they faced...
The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius
AuthorJan Greenberg
When George Ohr's trove of pottery was discovered in 1967, years after his death, his true genius was discovered with it. The world could finally see how unique this artist really was!

Born in 1856 in Biloxi, Mississippi, George grew up to the sounds of the civil war and political unrest.When...
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...
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
AuthorKatherine Roy
ISBN1596438746
Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just thirty miles from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!

A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants...
Woodpecker Wham!
AuthorApril Pulley Sayre
ISBN0805088423
Swoop and land.
Hitch and hop.
Shred a tree stump.
Chop, chip, chop!

Enter woodpecker world and get a bird's eye view of everyday life: hiding from hawks, feeding hungry chicks, and drilling holes to build homes. Woodpeckers are nature's home builders, creating holes that many...
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...
Grand Canyon
AuthorJason Chin
ISBN1596439505
Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon.

Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls...
Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table
AuthorJacqueline Briggs Martin
ISBN0983661537
Will Allen is no ordinary farmer. A former basketball star, he's as tall as his truck, and he can hold a cabbage--or a basketball--in one hand. But what is most special about Farmer Will is that he can see what others can't see. When he looked at an abandoned city lot in Milwaukee he saw a huge table, big enough...
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