The Animal Book
10 best books like The Animal Book (Steve Jenkins): Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas, Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold, Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard, Parrots Over Puerto Rico, Frog Song, Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives, Gravity, No Monkeys, No Chocolate, Stronger Than Steel: Spider Silk DNA and the Quest for Better Bulletproof Vests, Sutures, and Parachute Rope, Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
| Author | Molly Bang |
| ISBN | 0545273226 |
Acclaimed Caldecott artist Molly Bang paints a stunning, sweeping view of our ever-changing oceans.
In this timely book, award-winner Molly Bang uses her signature poetic language and dazzling illustrations to introduce the oceanic world. From tiny aquatic plants to the biggest whale...
| Author | Joyce Sidman |
| ISBN | 0547906501 |
First thing: there is a fox on the cover and a fox on each page and yet there is not a poem to a fox; why? OK, the poems are about animals surviving the cold winter in nature. They are good poems. Then on the side they give a block of text on how the animals actually survive the cold with facts. My niece loves the...
| Author | Annette LeBlanc Cate |
| ISBN | 0763645613 |
You don’t have to own binoculars and know a bunch of fancy Latin names to watch birds! No matter where you live, they’re in your neighborhood — just look up.
This conversational, humorous introduction to bird-watching encourages kids to get outdoors with a sketchbook and really look...
| Author | Susan L. Roth |
| ISBN | 1620140047 |
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...
| Author | Brenda Z. Guiberson |
| ISBN | 0805092544 |
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...
| Author | Lola M. Schaefer |
| ISBN | 1452107149 |
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...
| Author | Jason Chin |
| ISBN | 1596437170 |
What keeps objects from floating out of your hand?
What if your feet drifted away from the ground?
What stops everything from floating into space?
Gravity.
As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly...
| Author | Melissa Stewart |
| ISBN | 1580892876 |
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...
| Author | Bridget Heos |
| ISBN | 0547681267 |
In The Spider Silk Scientists, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders, as their silk is combined with goat's milk to weave a nearly indestructible fiber.
Learn how this amazing material can be used to repair or replace...
| Author | Loree Griffin Burns |
| ISBN | 0761393420 |
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...
| Author | Katherine Roy |
| ISBN | 1596438746 |
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...
A Chicken Followed Me Home!: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl
| Author | Robin Page |
| ISBN | 1481410288 |
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...
Pug and Other Animal Poems
| Author | Valerie Worth |
| ISBN | 0374350248 |
In the follow-up to the well-received Animal Poems, Pug: And Other Animal Poems examines a wide range of animal behavior, from the fleetingness of a fly sipping spilled milk to the constant steely presence of a powerful bull; the greedy meal of a street rat to a cat's quiet gift of a dead mouse on...
| Author | Jess Keating |
| ISBN | 0553512285 |
Pinkalicious meets National Geographic in this nonfiction picture book introducing the weirdest, wildest, pinkest critters in the animal kingdom!
Some people think pink is a pretty color. A fluffy, sparkly, princess-y color. But it's so much more.
Sure, pink is the color of princesses...
| Author | Raymond Huber |
| ISBN | 0763667609 |
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...
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 1596435992 |
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....
| Author | Nicola Davies |
| ISBN | 0763673153 |
Find out how the smallest things on the planet do some of the biggest jobs in this intriguing introduction to the world of microbes.
All around the world -- in the sea, in the soil, in the air, and in your body -- there are living things so tiny that millions could fit on an ant's antenna. They're busy...
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 1452112487 |
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...
| Author | Sy Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0547815484 |
If you’ve never seen a lowland tapir, you’re not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil’s vast Pantanal (“the Everglades on steroids”) haven’t seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery...
| Author | Jennifer Ward |
| ISBN | 1442449454 |
A delightful exploration of the incredibly variety of nests birds build for their babies, illustrated by a Caldecott Honoree.
Mama built a little nest
inside a sturdy trunk.
She used her beak to tap-tap-tap
the perfect place to bunk.
There are so many different kinds...
| Author | Bruce Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0805089985 |
With colorful photographs and interactive examples, Bruce Goldstone introduces children to the ideas of something being possible, probable, or impossible. Each spread features an easy-to-understand scenario such as dice rolling, with questions about probable outcomes and simple explanations....
| Author | Sandra Markle |
| ISBN | 1467705926 |
Honeybees are a crucial part of our food chain. As they gather nectar from flowers to make sweet honey, these bees also play an important role in pollination, helping some plants produce fruit. But large numbers of honeybees are disappearing every year . . . and no one knows why. Is a fungus killing them?...
