Mad About Mega Beasts!

Mad About Mega Beasts!
Author: Giles Andreae
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408337150

Discover the world's biggest, most magnificent animals in this colourful, rhyming picture book! Have you ever seen a squid that weighs more than a car? Or a dinosaur that's as big as eighteen elephants? Packed with incredible creatures, from the cuddly St Bernard dog to the ferocious Siberian tiger, this bright, bold book is perfect for young animal fans everywhere! With a short, lively rhyme on each page, fun facts and colourful pictures. From the author of international bestseller, Giraffes Can't Dance.

Mad About Minibeasts!

Mad About Minibeasts!
Author: Giles Andreae
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2012-11-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408328763

A colourful rhyming picture book all about minibeasts. Come into the garden for lots of creepy-crawly fun ... Little ones will love joining in with all the noisy sound words and looking at the colourful pictures, as they discover all sorts of minibeasts - including ladybirds, beetles, wriggly worms, snails and munching caterpillars! 'Simple, cheerful and humorous rhymes ... great fun to read together, and also makes a good introduction to learning about the world around us' - Booktrust From the creators of the bestselling Rumble in the Jungle and Commotion in the Ocean.

ABC Animal Jamboree

ABC Animal Jamboree
Author: Giles Andreae
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1589254368

Explore the animal alphabet from Angelfish to Zebra in this rhyming romp! Critically acclaimed team Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz have combined the popular poems of their bestselling picture books Commotion in the Ocean and Rumble in the Jungle into one dazzling collection! Also included are lots of fabulous new verses and more eye-popping illustrations.

Actual Size

Actual Size
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547349580

How big is a crocodile? What about a tiger, or the world’s largest spider? Can you imagine a tongue that is two feet long or an eye that’s bigger than your head? Sometimes facts and figures don’t tell the whole story. Sometimes you need to see things for yourself—at their actual size.

Mad About Dinosaurs!

Mad About Dinosaurs!
Author: Giles Andreae
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1408345420

Join all your favourite dinosaurs in this colourful, rhyming picture book, from the author of international bestseller, Giraffes Can't Dance! Silly Diplodocus, fierce T-Rex, Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus and more... They're all here in this bright, bold book! With a short lively rhyme on each page, fun facts and colourful pictures (plus handy pronunciation guides) this is perfect for young dinosaur fans everywhere. "Larger than life dinosaurs, in full glorious technicolour... bound to become another sure-fire hit" Books for Keeps Previously published under the title Dinosaurs Galore.

In the Shadow of the Sabertooth

In the Shadow of the Sabertooth
Author: Doug Peacock
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1849351414

"Doug Peacock, as ever, walks point for all of us. Not since Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature has a book of such import been presented to readers. Peacock’s intelligence defies measure. His is a beautiful, feral heart, always robust, relentless with its love and desire for the human race to survive, and be sculpted by the coming hard times: to learn a magnificent humility, even so late in the game. Doug Peacock’s mind is a marvel—there could be no more generous act than the writing of this book. It is a crowning achievement in a long career sent in service of beauty and the dignity of life."—Rick Bass, author of Why I Came West and The Lives of Rocks Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people first colonized this continent. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the huge glaciers of the Late Pleistocene. In this brand new landscape, humans managed to adapt to unfamiliar habitats and dangerous creatures in the midst of a wildly fluctuating climate. What was it like to live with huge pack-hunting lions, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and gigantic short-faced bears, to hunt now extinct horses, camels, and mammoth? Are there lessons for modern people lingering along this ancient trail? The shifting weather patterns of today—what we call "global warming"—will far exceed anything our ancestors previously faced. Doug Peacock's latest narrative explores the full circle of climate change, from the death of the megafauna to the depletion of the ozone, in a deeply personal story that takes readers from Peacock's participation in an archeological dig for early Clovis remains in Livingston, MT, near his home, to the death of the local whitebark pine trees in the same region, as a result of changes in the migration pattern of pine beetles with the warming seasons. Writer and adventurer Doug Peacock has spent the past fifty years wandering the earth's wildest places, studying grizzly bears and advocating for the preservation of wilderness. He is the author of Grizzly Years; Baja; and Walking It Off and co-author of The Essential Grizzly. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2011 Lannan Fellow.

Strange Beasts of China

Strange Beasts of China
Author: Yan Ge
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612199100

A New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of 2021 "Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror of 2021"—The Washington Post From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast… In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast, and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self. Part detective story, part metaphysical enquiry, Strange Beasts of China engages existential questions of identity, humanity, love and morality with whimsy and stylistic verve.

Cinnamon and Gunpowder

Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Author: Eli Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374123667

In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.

Dinosaurs Galore!

Dinosaurs Galore!
Author: Giles Andreae
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2008
Genre: Children's poetry, English
ISBN: 9781846164484

Cock-a-doodle-doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo

Cock-a-doodle-doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo
Author: Giles Andreae
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1589253876

Children will love to explore the bright and noisy barnyard in this wonderful collection of poems from the award-winning author and illustrator team of Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz.