30 Animals That Share Our World

30 Animals That Share Our World
Author: Jean Reynolds
Publisher: Seagrass Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1633225011

Do you know who the world's smartest animal is? How exactly do spiders spin their webs? Have you heard about the tiniest frog on earth? Find out the answers to these questions and learn so much more about our world's fascinating creatures in 30 Animals That Share Our World! Written by today’s best known, award-winning children's authors, each bite-sized essay in this collection gives kids an exciting peek into the amazing animal kingdom. This collection, which follows 30 People That Changed the World, features essays from the world-famous NonFictionMinute blog. These essays are quick to read, and will have children begging to know more about the world around them.

30 Animals That Share Our World

30 Animals That Share Our World
Author: InkThinkTank
Publisher: Seagrass Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1633225003

A collection of 30 "nonfiction minutes" -- short and engaging essays -- all about animals, written by today's award-winning children's nonfiction authors.

Weird and Wacky Creatures-Endangered Animals

Weird and Wacky Creatures-Endangered Animals
Author: K. B. Carr
Publisher: DSG Kids
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780996837521

A Dragon covered with fingernails, a Mermaid who vacuums the ocean floor every day, and a pocket Dracula no bigger than your thumb. Am I making them up? No! And you know I have the pictures to prove it. Add in fun activities and huge, scientific words you can roll out to impress your Teacher, and you¿ve got Weird & Wacky Creatures-Endangered Animals. Is truth stranger than fiction? Take a look for yourself...

The Big Book of Animals of the World

The Big Book of Animals of the World
Author: Ole Könnecke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 177657012X

A large format board book of animals from all over the world, illustrated with charm and humor. Each spread in this big book focuses on a continent or ocean and features animals unique to that part of the world. Simple but charming, this is a great mix of world tour and day at the zoo, with plenty of room for spontaneous storytelling.

Meet the National Animals

Meet the National Animals
Author: Catherine Veitch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2022-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0711263728

Meet the National Animals is a playful and humorous look at the animals all around the world who represent their country. Why do they represent the particular country and what is so special or symbolic about them? Featuring over 35 amazing animals, from the mystical Scottish Unicorn to China's much-loved Giant Panda and the wonderful, but extinct, Dodo from Mauritius. The witty text brings each animal to life and celebrates their quirks and characteristics. Includes a playful, charming narrative along the bottom of each spread, which sees Brown Bear gradually bringing all the animals together as they travel the world, celebrating each country as they go. Filled with fascinating facts about each animal and country, the text also touches gently upon any conservation issues related to each animal and their habitat. The illustrations inject warmth and humour into the narrative, making the animals the stars of their respective countries!

What Species of Creatures

What Species of Creatures
Author: Sharon Kirsch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Literary Nonfiction. North American History. Science. Three centuries ago, white Europeans began to colonize the North American continent. In doing so, they encountered flying squirrels, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and the easily tamed beaver: creatures their kind had never met before. The accounts of early explorers and settlers in describing these animals and others provide fascinating insight into the taxonomies they carried to the so-called New World. Their literature of discovery was by turns comic, cruel and adulatory. This book brings together period quotes and 21st-century science in an idiosyncratic narrative. Extended anecdote conveys the adventures of historical personalities, and the book borrows, too, from fables, children's stories and natural histories. Yet WHAT SPECIES OF CREATURES addresses present concerns our habitual understanding of wild animals and our own place in the natural order. In the process of quoting from and commenting upon European ancestors' speciesist arrogance, Kirsch interrogates our seemingly insatiable appetite to trap, catch, skin, domesticate, eat, eradicate or otherwise bend to our use the animals in our midst."

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter
Author: Patrick Aryee
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2022-05-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1642832677

Did you know that mosquitoes' mouthparts are helping to develop pain-free surgical needles? Who'd have thought that the humble mussel could inspire so many useful things, from plywood production to a "glue" that can cement the crowns on teeth? Or that the design of polar bear fur may one day help keep humans warm in space? In everything from fashion to architecture, medicine to transportation, it may surprise you how many extraordinary inventions have been inspired by the natural world. In 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter, join wildlife biologist, TV host, and BBC podcaster Patrick Aryee as he tells stories of biomimicry, or innovations inspired by the natural world, that enrich our lives every day--and in some cases, save them.

Animals Around the World

Animals Around the World
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780753419540

With 50 chunky flaps to lift and warm, friendly illustrations by award-winning artist Anthony Lewis, this is an essential interactive introduction to animal habitats around the world.

Animal Wise

Animal Wise
Author: Virginia Morell
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013
Genre: Animal behavior
ISBN: 0307461440

Explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.

How to Love Animals

How to Love Animals
Author: Henry Mance
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1984879650

A personal journey into our evolving relationships with animals, and a thought-provoking look at how those bonds are being challenged and reformed across disciplines We love animals, but does that make the animals' lives any happier? With factory farms, climate change and deforestation, this might be the worst time in history to be an animal. If we took animals' experiences seriously, how could we eat, think and live differently? How to Love Animals is a lively and important portrait of our evolving relationship with animals, and how we can share our planet fairly. Mance works in a slaughterhouse and on a pig farm to explore the reality of eating meat and dairy. He explores our dilemmas over hunting wild animals, over-fishing the seas, visiting zoos and saving wild spaces. What might happen if we extended the love we show to our pets to other sentient beings? In an age of extinction and pandemics, our relationship with animals has become unsustainable. Mance argues that there has never been a better time to become vegetarian or vegan, and that the conservation movement can flourish, if people in wealthy countries shrink their footprint. Mance seeks answers from chefs, farmers, activists, philosophers, politicians and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals. Inspired by the author's young daughters, his book is a story of discovery and hope that outlines how we can find a balance with animals that fits with our basic love for them.