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The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature

10 best books like The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature (Jacob Lentz): Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons, Can We Save the Tiger?, The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees, Frog Song, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything, Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science, How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language, Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today

Mama Says: A Book Of Love For Mothers And Sons
AuthorRob D. Walker
ISBN0439932084
Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon bring to life these words of wisdom about living life with compassion and courage. Written in rhyming text, this is a "must have" for every family.

Gentle, but powerful life lessons spoken to a child, delivered with a mother's immutable love....
Can We Save the Tiger?
AuthorMartin Jenkins
ISBN0763649090
The team behind the award-winning APE returns with an inspiring look at a range of endangered species sure to engage every child who loves animals.

Tigers are pretty special — and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are...
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
AuthorDon Brown
ISBN1328810151
In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust Bowl and Sibert Honor winning Drowned City, The Unwanted is an important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the harsh realities...
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...
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
AuthorDave Barry
ISBN1423340868
I think Dave Barry retired at the right time. I grew up loving his humor, but it's become more and more formulaic as time goes on, and there's only so many times that the letters in someone's name rearranged, or a goofy suggested band name, or even, dare I say it, a fart joke, can be funny. This book is mostly...
Kubla Khan: The Emperor of Everything
AuthorKathleen Krull
ISBN0670011142
Always cast in a supporting role in the many books about Marco Polo, the great Kubla Khan now takes center stage in a splendid picture-book biography. He is a wonderful subject-a man who liked to live large, building the imperial city of Beijing from scratch, siring a hundred children, throwing birthday...
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects
AuthorAndy Warner
ISBN1250078652
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates

In the tradition of A Cartoon History of the Universe and, most recent, Randall Munroe's What If?...
The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
AuthorMarc Aronson
ISBN1426311087
Growing up in South Dakota, Adrienne Mayor was the quiet girl who never raised her hand in class. Instead, she loved to wander the prairie seeking wonders and filling her mind with stories.

When she found herself in Athens, Greece, she plunged into reading the original versions of ancient myths--especially...
How to Speak Cat: A Guide to Decoding Cat Language
AuthorAline Alexander Newman
ISBN1426318634
We know cats are beautiful, secretive, and independent ... but even the most loyal cat owners are often baffled by their own pet's behavior. With veterinarian expert Dr. Gary Weitzman as guide, this fun book helps kids understand what cats are trying to communicate by their body language and behavior....
Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today
AuthorCynthia Levinson
ISBN1561459453
Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution.
Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take readers back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced--then they offer possible...
Why Fish Fart and Other Useless Or Gross Information About the World
AuthorFrancesca Gould
ISBN1585427578
Weird and gross facts about history, the human body, and the natural world are presented in short entries. As is typical with these sorts of books, I think some of the info was a little exaggerated.

I do like that the author educates readers about the gross (and cruel) origin of the hormone replacement...
The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond
AuthorPatrick Dillon
ISBN0763669903
Aspiring architects will be in their element! Explore this illustrated narrative history of buildings for young readers, an amazing construction in itself.

We spend most of our lives in buildings. We make our homes in them. We go to school in them. We work in them. But why and how did people start...
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird
AuthorPamela S. Turner
ISBN0544416198
One of the biggest differences between humans and animals is the ability to understand the idea of “If I do X, Y might happen.” New Caledonian crows seem to possess the intelligence to understand this “causal” concept. Why do crows have this ability? What does the crow know and what does it tell...
Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People behind Everyday Words
AuthorJohn Bemelmans Marciano
ISBN1596916532
An encyclopedia of linguistic biographies: the witty, illustrated stories of the Earl of Sandwich, Charles Boycott, and other historical figures better known as words than people.

Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing.

Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.

Anonyponymous,...
Under a Pig Tree: A History of the Noble Fruit (A Mixed-Up Book)
AuthorMargie Palatini
ISBN1419714880
The publisher and author of Under a Pig Tree seem to be having communication issues. The author has written a clear, no-nonsense history of figs. But the publisher is sure she meant pigs. After all, what’s the difference between two measly letters? What results is a hilarious illustrated history...
True Stories
AuthorJon Scieszka
ISBN0062316524
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable—and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning...
Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways That Animals Move
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0544630904
A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In...
A Cool Drink of Water
AuthorBarbara Kerley
ISBN0792267230
An Italian boy sips from a fountain in the town square. A hiker takes
a refreshing drink from a mountain stream. Black-robed women in India stride gracefully through a field with brass water jugs balanced on their heads. Whether they squeeze it out of a burlap bag, haul it home from a communal tap,...
Volcanoes!
AuthorAnne Schreiber
ISBN1426302851
NOW IN SPANISH! This fascinating reader provides a fascinating look inside volcanoes with a little science, a little history, and a lot of dramatic National Geographic photographs.

Hot melted rock from the middle of our planet is forced into a jagged journey through cracks in the earth's...
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