Steve Jenkins
42) Vulture view
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Turkey vultures soar on the balmy air, looking for their next stinky feast. These birds don't hunt--they like their food to be already dead. Vultures are part of nature's cleanup crew"--Inside front dust jacket.
43) Big & little
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrates the concept of size by comparing different animals, from the smallest visible animals to the largest.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the remarkable places on earth, including the hottest, coldest, windiest, snowiest, highest, and deepest.
45) Hello, baby!
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A baby encounters a variety of young animals, including a clever monkey, a hairy warthog, and a dusty lion cub, before discovering the most precious creature of all.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce different kinds of birds' nests, from the scrapes falcons build on high, craggy ledges to the underground nests burrowing owls dig. Includes brief facts about each kind of bird.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An alphabet book featuring twenty-six animals found in the ocean and including endnotes giving additional details about each of these sea creatures.
48) Animal poems
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Each of the exquisite twenty-three poems in this posthumous collection by Valerie Worth carefully distinguishes one animal from all other creatures and captures it in all of its wonderful singularity - from wasp to snake to wren. The way Worth perfectly illuminates the uniqueness of each animal in her precise and elegant free verse will delight both fans of her celebrated Small Poems and readers encountering her poetry for the first time. Breathtakingly...
49) Woodpecker wham!
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 un-numbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 other animals live in when the woodpeckers move on. A variety of woodpecker species fly through these pages--perhaps some that live near you!"--
50) Eat like a bear
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
90L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a bear from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to midwinter when the arrival of two cubs interrupts her long winter's rest. Includes facts about brown (grizzly) bears of the Yellowstone National Park/Glacier National Park region.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Playful poems from five alternating viewpoints tell the story of an exciting day--from sunrise to moonrise--on a young, about-to-shout volcano."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1010L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of all the different kinds of dens animals build for their babies"--
57) Time to eat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's time to eat! Which animals eat bamboo, can gulp down a whole deer, or swallow rocks to help them eat?
58) Animal dads
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and simple text describe how the males of different species help take care of their young.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
230L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Squirrels wrestle. Squirrels leap. Squirrels climb. Squirrels sleep. If you followed a squirrel for a day, what would you see? Climbing branches, storing seeds, making homes in tree holes, and maybe even flying! [The creators of this book offer] a glimpse into this fascinating world. Discover different kinds of squirrels as the scamper, eat, and|finally|sleep."--Amazon.com.