Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Science & Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection

Fun and learning come together in North Carolina's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fauna, and natural history of that fascinating place where land meets sea. Each page includes a full-color illustration and breezy, fact-filled commentary on coastal wildlife from fifty-foot-long northern right whales to single-cell plankton, from shy red wolves to overbearingly sociable sand gnats. Readers will learn about the super-sized fox squirrel, the acting talents of the hognose snake, the health benefits of eating pawpaws,...

**Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly**
The Oldest Bird in the World Survives the Japanese Tsunami

The oldest bird in the world, documented with banding, is Wisdom, the Midway Albatross. She was on Midway when the Japanese Tsunami hit and this is her amazing story of survival of manmade and natural disasters for over 60 years. She has survived the dangers of living wild, plastic pollution, longline fishing, lead poisoning, and the Japanese earthquake. At 65, she's still laying eggs and hatching chicks. See her Facebook page at...

Did you know that a dwarf lanternshark is only 8 inches long?
How about that some salamanders breathe through their skin?
Or that elephants have a great sense of smell--and can detect water that's twelve miles away?

Colorful, humorous illustrations accompany tons of cool facts about animals of all shapes, sizes, speeds, and species in this lively book that makes nonfiction fun

Except when he talks to animals...

Then he is fluent.

Follow the life of the man Time Magazine calls, "the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation"as he searches for his voice and fulfills a promise to speak for animals, and people, who cannot speak for themselves....

The inspiring stories of 45 young heroes who have made an impact on our planet.

Forty-five young people from around the world (including twelve from the U.S. and four from Canada) are doing something every day to make the world a better place. They discovered issues that concerned them and did something about it. With skills ranging from singing, drawing, and painting to fund-raising, public demonstrations, and events, they have fought climate change and pollution, and worked to protect animals and their natural habitats. This inspiring book also includes reference...

Recipient of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Bilingual Books. Las Joyas Voladoras son los "Visita flores" o colibrIes, y desempeNan un papel esencial de la mayor importancia, porque sOlo ellos pueden polinizar muchos de los Arboles y arbustos que forman parte de la naturaleza. Sin embargo, Ultimamente los nUmeros de estas pequeNas aves se han disminuido porque hemos invadido y destruido sus hAbitats, pero este libro explica lo que podemos hacer para proteger y conservar este tesoro nacional. En PanamA, se han observado 59 especies de colibrIes. Algunos de ellos son...

Author Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take young readers on a trip to another of Minnesota's important ecosystems: the prairie.

Once covering almost 40 percent of the United States, native prairie is today one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world. Plant a Pocket of Prairie teaches children how changes in one part of the system affect every other part: when prairie plants are destroyed, the...