Mama Dug a Little Den

Mama Dug a Little Den
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481480383

This companion to the celebrated Mama Built a Little Nest explores the many different kinds of dens animals build for their babies. Perhaps you’ll come across a den, dark and deep and wide. And it will make you wonder… Who or what might be inside! There are so many different kinds of dens that mother animals make for their babies, from desert burrows to snow caves to elaborate underground tunnels. Jennifer Ward introduces young readers to all sorts of animals and the cozy burrows they call home in this bouncy, rhyming picture book, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Steve Jenkins.

Mama Built a Little Nest

Mama Built a Little Nest
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1442421169

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.

Let's Go Outside!

Let's Go Outside!
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-07-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0834822504

Engage your child in outdoor play, nature outings, and environmental explorations. Chase and be chased in a game of capture the flag. Use the power of the sun to craft your own shadow prints. Explore the stars on a late night walk. Create a field guide to your neighborhood. Through 52 ideas—some classic and some new—Let's Go Outside! offers a range of activities perfect for children ages 8 to 12. Whether you're in the country, the city, or anywhere in between, this book is sure to help you get outside—and run, dance, hike, or camp—with your preteen. Sections of the book include: • Back to Basics: Reconnecting with twists on traditional games and activities such as Capture the Flag • Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Picnics, doing homework outdoors, and socializing opportunities outdoors • Outdoor Adventures: Canoeing, biking, and camping • Environmental Experiments: Ways to explore how nature works

Can an Aardvark Bark?

Can an Aardvark Bark?
Author: Melissa Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481458531

From award-winning author Melissa Stewart and Caldecott honoree Steve Jenkins comes a noisy nonfiction exploration of the many sounds animals make. Can an aardvark bark? No, but it can grunt. Lots of other animals grunt too… Barks, grunts, squeals—animals make all kinds of sounds to communicate and express themselves. With a growling salamander and a whining porcupine, bellowing giraffes and laughing gorillas, this boisterous book is chock-full of fun and interesting facts and is sure to be a favorite of even the youngest animal enthusiasts.

Dinothesaurus

Dinothesaurus
Author: Douglas Florian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2024-03-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1665957956

Step back in time with this fossil-filled picture book poetry collection that explores the prehistoric era with Douglas Florian’s singular wit and style. This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks… Twenty funny and factual poems bring dinosaurs to life—illuminating the natural history of these amazing creatures as well as their unique and quirky characteristics.

I Love Dirt!

I Love Dirt!
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2008-05-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1590305353

I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's sense of wonder. Jennifer Ward is the author of numerous acclaimed parenting books and books for children, inspired by nature. "Jennifer Ward has created a book that will serve to gently introduce parents to nature, even as parents are using it to help guide a child into the narural world. Children—and parents—learn to observe, as well as appreciate, the basic joys of getting their hands dirty and feet wet. Discoveres become shared experience."—from the forword by Richard Louv

What Will Hatch?

What Will Hatch?
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2013-06-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0802735673

Jelly, jiggly. What will hatch? Wiggly, squiggly. . . tadpole. What is more exciting than waiting for an egg to hatch? Creatures of all varieties begin inside an egg-and those eggs also come in all shapes and sizes. From a squiggly tadpole to fuzzy robin to a leathery platypus, this charming text and unique illustrations show eight different animals as they begin life. With a cut-out on each page readers will have fun guessing... what will hatch?

Just You and Me

Just You and Me
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534460985

"A fascinating rhyming exploration of symbiosis: how different animals (and even some plants!) help each other in nature"--

The Busy Tree

The Busy Tree
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2009
Genre: Forest animals
ISBN: 9780761455509

Originally published by Marshall Cavendish Children in 2009.

Because You Are My Baby

Because You Are My Baby
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Rising Moon Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780873589116

Rhyming text explores the ways different animals care for their offspring, from roadrunners to skunks to humans.