A colorful playfully illustrated younger children's story-style guide to the wildlife and wonders of Antarctica, stepping readers (or those being read to) through the watery and icey world of fishes, penguins, seals, skuas, squid, and others, showing key interactions. A learning experience for both young and old, complete with a species guide and simple map.

A short novella with illustrations in the classic sci-fi mode, a taste of archeology, with modern technologies, and a quick pace that doesn't require a long reading commitment. The next age of exploration has dawned for human kind. Our machines scan the heavens, new planets are discovered, and the first interstellar ships are ready. A green planet shrouded in cloud awaits over one hundred and fifty light years away, and a solar-system sprawled humanity is ready to explore it. Below the clouds an old civilization with very familiar technologies awaits on towering houses above a very alive sea....

Poor Buck's Trial is a short story set in the mid-twentieth century, about an innocent misunderstanding. The word 'trial' has multiple meanings, and a child (the storyteller) can pick the wrong one. Since the child also loves a dog (Buck), a 'Dog Trial' has special meaning. The story covers both how the child experiences a normal weekend, has a very bad dream, and learns something new. In the process the story covers the excitement of a child's fishing day, and the love of a mother and father for the child. The story is made to be read to younger children, and be read by children 8 years in...

Wonders abound in the world deep below the surface of Earth's oceans This book covers those animals that visit the dark world and also those that make it home, from glowing jellies, to fanciful squid, to toothy fishes, and many more. A species index is provided at the end to give the reader, or those read to, a chance to find real species in the pages inside. Time to explore this little known world, and learn what we can from it. The deep sea is ready for you to explore Beyond the sunlight, deep away from view is a barely discovered world of forgotten fishes, swimming giants, colorful...

Swim with playful dolphins and sea cows from around the world This learning book for all children shows a few of the great variety of dolphins and their relatives, from river dolphins, to open ocean dolphins, to shallow water dolphins. Can you find each of the dolphins, fishes, and seacows in the pages of the book? Two of the dolphins are harder to find than the others The pictures and story will get a smile from even the youngest or oldest audience, and even a parent may learn a little bit about the seas. Can be read to any age. 2nd Edition.

Explore the mighty Amazon River Take a trip down South America's Amazon and see piranhas, anacondas, arapaima, oscars, pufferfish, catfish, caimans, turtles, otters, mantees, and dolphins. This book shows the reader (or those being read to) the habitats and the myriad of species that inhabit this still mysterious river system. The reader will see how the species interact, where they live, and learn about the fishes, reptiles, and mammals that call the mighty Amazon home. At the beginning is a simplified map, and at the end of the book is an identification guide to the fourty-four kinds of...

A children's coloring book with dozens of kinds of fish, squid, whales, dolphins, seals, penguins, amphibians, caimans, turtles, snakes, salamanders, and otters. What makes a fish, reptile, mammal, mollusc? What eats what? How do lakes get water? How does a fish live? How do oceans get salt? What is a toothed whale? Many nature, ocean, animal, and river questions answered inside. Coloring fun and nature learning at once.

Have you ever wondered how fish, whales, dolphins, seals, turtles, plants, and many other things relate? In this fully illustrated book, you will learn what fish eat, and how knowing what they eat can answer many questions. You will learn to draw a food web, linking the species together to understand how an ecosystem works. Thirty-two fish based food webs are included, with a question for each, and answers at the end of the book. Over seventy species of fish, whales, dolphins, crustaceans, and other animals are used and illustrated. From fifth grade to graduate school, every reader will learn...

A fun and educational adventure that takes the reader from a river's mountainous beginning to the deep sea and describes the fish and whales encountered along the way. It contains identification guides for each of dozens of fish and four types of whales included, and challenges the reader to find them all. The Expanded Edition includes two more whale species, and a page just to identify the four total species of whales, 24 pages total. Can be read to any age, and is a learning experience for grown ups and kids.

Space Explorers will also be Space Farmers In this book future space explorers will learn all about how farms in Space work. How will people grow food, recycle air and water, and use wastes? Inside are ways to grow plants without soil, farm fish and shrimp in small spaces, grow algae in a reactor, and use yeast and bacteria. Readers will learn how animals and fungi convert food and oxygen, and how plants and algae convert carbon dioxide and water. Simple experiments anchor key concepts, and advanced readers can explore a couple of related math exercises. Playful illustrations make the book...