This series of lavishly illustrated books is designed to attract first readers to non-fiction. It presents popular topics through a combination of exciting artwork and superb photographs linked by a simple, carefully controlled text and captions. Each books includes a Things To Do section, glossary, index and useful addresses from where information may be obtained to enhance the study of the topic.
A journey through the Amazon Rainforest introduces its people, plant life, and animals.
They argue that free market thinking fails to consider the impact of human nature on the innovation process. This ambitious work challenges the basic assumptions that economists have held for over a century."--Page 4 of cover.
Embark on a journey through the enchanting world of the rainforest in Charlotte Milner's beautifully illustrated The Rainforest Book.
This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom. It's a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades.
Parker has investigated a wide range of species, including another kind of butterfly, the glasswing. I watched some of these insects fluttering through shady recesses in a Colombian cloud forest and was struck by how I could see through ...
Join Niwupah, the Hornbill, on a tour of his rainforest home, where the sights we see and the sounds we hear, the scents we smell and the creatures we meet, are like nothing we've ever imagined!
The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick for an “umbrella-vator” ride through the understory, canopy, and emergent layers of a tropical rain forest, encountering a host of plants, animals, and native peoples along the way.
A visual tour of an environment that is the pinnacle of biodiversity and evolutionary sophistication draws on the author's four decades of personal encounters with the animals of the rainforest and includes photographs that capture stunning ...
Wisdom from a Rainforest is Schlegel's testament to his experience and to the Teduray people of Figel, from whom he learned such vital, lasting lessons.
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