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Watching and Waiting: What Hatches from Nature's Nurseries
What should you do if you discover eggs, egg cases, or galls when you're exploring the outdoors? You should watch and wait and come back to check on them! Author Sara Levine's simple, lyrical Read More →
Starlight Symphony
Eee-oh-lay! Chirp-a-chirp! Rat-a-tat! Nature is full of music. Listen in as a wood thrush, a cricket, a woodpecker, and many other animals perform a symphony under the stars. Rhyming verse… Read More →
Haiku, Ew!: Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature
Stop right there! If you think poems about nature are all pretty flowers and rainbow sunsets, this book is not for you. If you can’t handle giant whale farts, turn back right now. If you… Read More →
Una fruta es una maleta para las semillas (A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds)
Muchas semillas viajan dentro de las frutas. La fruta es como una maleta para las semillas. Las protege durante el viaje. Los lectores conocerán de qué manera están diseñadas las frutas para Read More →
Nature's Rule Breakers: Creatures That Don't Fit In
Some rules are meant to be broken, even those in the animal kingdom! You're probably familiar with many of the common categories scientists use for animals: warm-blooded or cold-blooded,… Read More →
On a Flake-Flying Day: Watching Winter's Wonders
On a feather-fluffing, seed-stuffing, cloud-puffing day . . . Weasels whiten. / Cardinals brighten. / Frost glistens. / Owl listens. From Buffy Silverman, author of On a Gold-Blooming Day and Read More →
The Power of Snow
On a snowy day . . . Two flakes play. Four flakes sashay. Eight flakes twirl. Sixteen flakes swirl. At this rate, how long will it take to surpass 100 snowflakes? How about 1,000? Or even… Read More →
Mysterious Glowing Mammals: An Unexpected Discovery Sparks a Scientific Investigation
Late one night, ecologist Jonathan Martin was searching for tree frogs in his Wisconsin backyard when he made an unexpected discovery. As he shined an ultraviolet flashlight in the direction… Read More →
Nature Is a Sculptor: Weathering and Erosion
Glaciers, rivers, wind, and rain are a few of the elements that shape the landscape in powerful ways. They form features big and small—from grand canyons and enormous caves to smooth pebbles Read More →
The Beasts in Your Brain: Understanding and Living with Anxiety and Depression
It can be hard to find the words to describe the icky feelings that seem to come from nowhere and sap all your joy and energy. You can tell that your brain just isn't pulling off the same… Read More →
Any Body: A Comic Compendium of Important Facts and Feelings about Our Bodies
An honest, humorous and factual book for children and early teens who want to understand and feel at home with their own bodies. Sometimes we feel uncomfortable in our own skin, sometimes… Read More →
Patterns Everywhere
Step outside. Let's find designs— / branching, cracking, spirals, lines. / Search the earth, the seas, the air. / Patterns, patterns everywhere. Look around and discover patterns in the… Read More →
Poop for Breakfast: Why Some Animals Eat It
Eating poop is gross! So why do some animals do it? For lots of good reasons! Male butterflies slurp up poop to give as a gift to females, which makes their eggs stronger. Robins scarf down… Read More →
Rise to the Sky: How the World's Tallest Trees Grow Up
What is the tallest living thing? It's not an elephant, or a giraffe, or even a blue whale. It's a tree! Trees are the tallest living things on Earth. But how do they grow to be so tall?… Read More →
Finding Family: The Duckling Raised by Loons
Discover the true story of an orphaned mallard duckling being raised by a pair of loons. On a lake in northern Wisconsin in 2019, loon researchers were surprised to discover a mother and… Read More →
Hidden Creature Features
Some animal features are easy to see—long tails, large wings, patterned fur, or sharp beaks. But look closer—you might be surprised by what you find! A penguin’s sharp beak hides a textured… Read More →
Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm's Fight for Change
Shirley Chisholm was a natural-born fighter. She didn’t like to be bossed and she wanted things to be fair. Brooklyn-born Shirley Chisholm was smart and ambitious. She poured her energy into… Read More →
Ice Cycle: Poems about the Life of Ice
Pancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms! From Maria Gianferrari, award-winning author of Play Like an Animal!, comes a… Read More →
Where We Come From
"Outstanding in all ways, this title deserves a place in most collections and adds a wonderful opportunity for upper elementary students (and higher!) to unpack our complicated… Read More →
Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck
Warning: this book sucks! It bites, slurps, and sticks too. Dare to open these pages and you'll find ticks, mosquitos, stingrays, elephants, jellyfish, and the particularly sucky lamprey.… Read More →
On a Gold-Blooming Day: Finding Fall Treasures
On a gold-blooming, bee-zooming, sun-dazzling day . . . / Snakes glide. / Spiders hide. / Crickets chirp. / Butterflies slurp. From Buffy Silverman, author of On a Snow-Melting Day, comes an… Read More →
Make Way for Animals!: A World of Wildlife Crossings
Around the world, city highways and country roads have cut through natural spaces. Wild animals are blocked from the resources they need to survive, or must make dangerous crossings across… Read More →
Sensational Senses: Amazing Ways Animals Perceive the World
Humans have five senses. But some animals can perceive things we can't thanks to their extraordinary senses. From science writer Rebecca E. Hirsch comes a fascinating book that introduces… Read More →
Hidden Animal Colors
Why should the bright and flashy animals get all of the attention? If you look closely at some seemingly ordinary animals, you may find a colorful surprise. A lizard is brown. A hippo is… Read More →