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10 best books like Vulture View (April Pulley Sayre): Ruth and the Green Book, Jane and the Dragon, Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives, Hush! A Thai Lullaby, Living Color, Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator, Under the Snow, Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals, Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird: A True Story, Spiders

Ruth and the Green Book
AuthorCalvin Alexander Ramsey
ISBN0761352554
In the not so distant past, traveling America's highways was not easy for the black motorist. Many restaurants, hotels, and even gas stations refused service to African Americans. In 1936, Victor Green, an African American from New York, listed all the businesses that would serve black travelers...
Jane and the Dragon
AuthorMartin Baynton
ISBN0763635707
A feisty heroine who’d rather joust than sew seeks out her own adventures in these magical fairy tales for today’s young readers.

Jane longs to be a knight, but everyone laughs at her. Everyone, that is, except the court jester, who lends her a small suit of armor to help make her dream come...
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...
Hush! A Thai Lullaby
AuthorMinfong Ho
ISBN0531071669
This is a rhyming lullaby. A mother is quieting all the animals around her while her baby is wide awake. It has a lovely rhythm to it. It is quieting for bed for younger kids. Older kids just tend to roll their eyes at this, I observed.

This might sound weird, but my favorite food in the world, and I...
Living Color
AuthorSteve Jenkins
ISBN0618708979
Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink—animals can be startlingly colorful. Why are they found in so many shades, tints, and hues? From the scarlet ibis to the blue-tongued skink, award-winning author/illustrator Steve Jenkins depicts a whole world of colorful animals in his signature...
Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator
AuthorSarah C. Campbell
ISBN1590785541
The wolfsnail hunts its prey: other snails. This true tale of horror begins in the leaf litter beside a quaint porch in Jackson, Mississippi. The wolfsnail is on the prowl. Big, strong, and fast (for a snail), the wolfsnail has a taste for meat. In some areas, it is called the cannibal snail. It has earned...
Under the Snow
AuthorMelissa Stewart
ISBN1561454931
When snow falls, we love to sled and skate and have snowball fights. But at the end of the day, we go home where it is warm and safe. What about all those animals out there in the forests and fields? What do they do when snow blankets the ground? Journey from your neighborhood to the woods, where ladybugs crowd...
Pink Is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals
AuthorJess Keating
ISBN0553512285
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...
Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird: A True Story
AuthorStephanie Spinner
ISBN0375868461
In 1977, graduate student Irene Pepperberg walked into a pet store and bought a year-old African grey parrot. Because she was going to study him, she decided to call him Alex--short for Avian Learning EXperiment. At that time, most scientists thought that the bigger the brain, the smarter the creature;...
Spiders
AuthorNic Bishop
ISBN0439877563
Spiders are creepy, crawly and scary, but Nic Bishop’s book, Spiders, still makes you want to know more. The amazing pictures grab your attention and keep you turning the page even if it turns your stomach. He manages to find many unusual subjects and photograph them up close so you can see the smallest...
Bat Loves the Night: Read and Wonder
AuthorNicola Davies
ISBN0763624381
"A charming and informative story about a pipistrelle bat. . . . Offers vivid descriptions of the animal's flight, its navigational skills, and
the hunt for food." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

Night has fallen, and Bat awakens to find her evening meal. Follow her as she swoops into the shadows,...
March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
AuthorChristine King Farris
ISBN0545035376
Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister, Christine, recounts the day of the March and his 'I Have A Dream Speech' in Washington D.C. I listened to this on audiobook and I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes, which was nice, and I'm glad I did because there were pieces from that day inserted into the audiobook...
How to Be an Elephant
AuthorKatherine Roy
ISBN1626721785
The savanna is not an easy place to live, even for African elephants, the largest land animals on earth. If it's a challenge for these 7,000-pound giants, what's it like for their newborn babies?

An infant elephant has precious little time to learn the incredible array of skills that are necessary...
Hello, Bumblebee Bat
AuthorDarrin Lunde
ISBN1570913749
My name is Bumblebee Bat.
I may be small,
but I'm a great flyer.
I live in a secret cave with my brothers and sisters.

Want to know more? Then open this book and fly with Bumblebee Bat into the night.

A series of questions and answers introduce children to the life and habitat...
Bringing In the New Year
AuthorGrace Lin
ISBN0375837450
This exuberant story follows a Chinese American family as they prepare for the Lunar New Year. Each member of the family lends a hand as they sweep out the dust of the old year, hang decorations, and make dumplings. Then it’s time to put on new clothes and celebrate with family and friends. There will...
When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old's Memoir of Her Youth
AuthorJamie Lee Curtis
ISBN0064434230
Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell perfectly capture a little girl's simple, joyous celebration of herself, as she looks back on her childhood from the lofty height of four and a half years.

This spirited view of growing up is perfect to share at home or in a classroom, as kids will respond to the...
Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again
AuthorJuliana Hatkoff
ISBN0545123356
The original hardcover upon which the major motion picture is based on!

When Winter was a baby, she was rescued from a crab trap, her tail seriously damaged, and rushed to Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Winter survived, but eventually her tail fell off. Then Winter received a prosthetic tail....
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