Flying Frogs and Walking Fish

Flying Frogs and Walking Fish
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2016-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 054486686X

A red-lipped batfish waddles across the sea floor on its fins, searching for small sea creatures to eat. Other animals may fly or glide, or jet-propel themselves to get around. These creatures come equipped with legs, wings, or tentacles, and they often move from place to place in surprising ways. In the latest eye-catching escape into the kingdom of Animalia, Caldecott Honor-winning team Jenkins and Page show how animals roll, fly, walk, leap, climb, swim and even flip! This fascinating and fun illustrated nonfiction melds science, art, biology, and the environment together in a detailed and well-researched book about how animals move in our world today.

A to Zoo

A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 3583
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

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Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 28
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ISBN: 151584949X

5 Kinds of Nonfiction

5 Kinds of Nonfiction
Author: Melissa Stewart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2023-10-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003842445

Once upon a time...children's nonfiction books were stodgy, concise, and not very kid friendly. Most were text heavy, with just a few scattered images decorating the content and meaning, rather than enhancing it. Over the last 20 years, children's nonfiction has evolved into a new breed of visually dynamic and engaging texts.In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books , Melissa Stewart and Dr. Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers. Along the way, they: Introduce the 5 kinds of nonfiction: Active, Browseable, Traditional, Expository Literature, and Narrative -;and explore each category through discussions, classroom examples, and insights from leading children's book authorsOffer tips for building strong, diverse classroom texts and library collectionsProvide more than 20 activities to enhance literacy instructionInclude innovative strategies for sharing and celebrating nonfiction with students.With more than 150 exemplary nonfiction book recommendations and Stewart and Correia's extensive knowledge of literacy instruction, 5 Kinds of Nonfiction will elevate your understanding of nonfiction in ways that speak specifically to the info-kids in your classrooms, but will inspire all readers and writers.

Locomotion!

Locomotion!
Author: Michael Dahl
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1684102685

How many ways do we move around? Explore five different kinds of Creative Movement in Locomotion! March, Hop, Skip, Gallop, Run.

Exploring Nonfiction Literacies

Exploring Nonfiction Literacies
Author: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2018-07-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1475843437

This book recognizes nonfiction text as a staple part of the literacy curriculum and advocates that educators include it in their daily practices. It offers innovative ideas on how these texts can be used to nurture literacy acquisition, growth, and fluency in and out of the classroom.

Who Am I?

Who Am I?
Author: Steve Jenkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 054493539X

Readers are given clues about an animal's characteristics and must use them to guess the identity of the creature.

Robo-Motion

Robo-Motion
Author: Linda Zajac
Publisher: Millbrook Press TM
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728423007

AudiseeĀ® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a . . . robo-hummingbird? Meet robots engineered using biomimicry that are built to move like animals. These robots are changing the way we live today and shaping the way we'll live in the future. On spreads pairing photos of robots with the animals they mimic, you'll discover robots that race through water like fish, run like cheetahs, jump like a kangaroo, swarm through the sky like honeybees, and more!

Flippers & Fins: Technology Inspried by Animals

Flippers & Fins: Technology Inspried by Animals
Author: Tessa Miller
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1684521254

The ocean is a dark and mysterious place, full of fascinating creatures. Scientists continue to discover new things about these animals and the amazing abilities that allow them to thrive deep underwater. In Animal Tech: Flippers & Fins, readers will learn about six life-changing pieces of technology that have come from the study of underwater animalsā€”from squid-inspired computer parts to tsunami sensors modeled after dolphin calls. By exploring the stories of inspiration and study that have led to these innovations, students will expand their learning of biology, engineering, and other STEM fields.

Good-bye and Good Riddance

Good-bye and Good Riddance
Author: Valerie Hagenbush
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595350992

Forward moving, forward thinking. With her Patagonia strapped on her back, and sporting an air of confidence derived from her ambitious undertaking, this unproven hitchhiker strode past all of the indifferent strangers' faces-fearless. Mrs. Gulliver, former prominent socialite, focused on the course ahead of her, invigorated by the refreshing uncertainty of it. She had a commanding presence: five feet, nine inches of indubitable spirit, manifested by a disciplined straight posture and easy, graceful gait. Following the lead of her eldest daughter, albeit three decades later, the vibrant and curious Madelaine Gulliver embarks on her own European hitchhiking trek. When "good-bye" is all that's left to say to those around her, the disgruntled woman befriends the open road. She sips hot chocolate on a mountaintop in Switzerland, walks through the military cemetery at Verdun, and finds unexpected love. Will the adventure continue beyond summer or will these newfound experiences lead back home?