Books from National Geographic Society

  • National Geographic Readers: Meerkats
    By Laura Marsh

    ... 12, Simon King/naturepl.com; 13, Martin Harvey/Getty Images; 14, Martin Harvey/Kimball Stock; 15, Susan McConnell/National Geographic My Shot; 16, Tim Jackson/Getty Images; 17, Mattias Klum/National Geographic Stock; 18–19, ...

  • National Geographic Readers: Cheetahs
    By Laura Marsh

    ... Gregor Schuster/GI; 9 (top), istvanffy/IS; 9 (bottom), Splurge Productions, Inc./GI; 10-11, Andy Rouse/NP; 12, Art Wolfe/GI; 13, Federico Veronesi/GI; 14, Martin Harvey/GI; 15, Anna Omelchenko/IS;16-17,Tom Soucek/Verge/CO; 18 (top), ...

  • Como aprendí inglés: 55 latinos realizados relatan las lecciones de idioma y vida
    By Tom Miller

    A la vez que leo las novelas de Michael Connelly y Paco Ignacio Taibo II , de Paul Auster y Arturo Pérez Reverte , de Truman Capote y Carlos Fuentes , escucho la música de Mecano y Moby , de Joan Manuel Serrat y Patti Smith , de Compay ...

  • National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears
    By Laura Marsh

    ... 22 (LO), Christopher Drake/National Geographic My Shot; 23 (UPLE), EcoStock/Shutterstock; 23 (UPRT), Flip Nicklin/Minden Pictures; 23 (LOLE), primopiano/Shutterstock; 23 (LORT), John Conrad/Corbis; 24, Jenny E. Ross/Corbis; 25, ...

  • National Geographic Readers: Red Pandas
    By Laura Marsh

    Illustration Credits Cover, Shin Yoshino/Minden Pictures; 1, Juan Carlos Munoz/Nature Picture Library; 3, Eric Isselée/ iStockphoto; 5, Frans Lanting/National Geographic Creative; 6, inga spence/Alamy; ...

  • National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Birds
    By Catherine D. Hughes

    ... 59 (CTR3), Steve Gettle/Minden Pictures; 59 (CTR4), George Grall/National Geographic Creative; 59 (CTR1), George Grall/National Geographic Creative; 60-61, Heike Odermatt/Minden Pictures; 62, Alan Murphy/BIA/Minden Pictures; ...

  • National Geographic's Driving Guides to America Canada
    By Katherine Ashenburg, Thomas Schmidt, Alison Kahn

    Cottage and Visitor Center midMay - mid - Oct . , grounds open year - round ) was created in 1964 by an international agreement signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson . It preserves the Roosevelts ...

  • National Geographic Readers: Farm Animals (Level 1 Co-reader)
    By Joanne Mattern

    Joanne Mattern. Family farms usually have a variety of animals and crops. These family-owned farms may have sheep, chickens, pigs, horses, and cows all on one farm. A family farm produces and sells manythings. One farmer can.

  • National Geographic Prehistoric Mammals
    By Alan Turner

    Provides a prehistoric journey through time to visit one hundred creatures that walked the Earth, from the saber-toothed cat and woolly mammoth to the hornless rhinoceros and giant ground sloth.

  • How to Be a Pirate
    By John Malam, Dave Antram

    Describes the job requirements, training, physical demands, compensation, and daily life of a pirate of the Spanish Main.

  • Angry Birds Playground: Rain Forest: A Forest Floor to Treetop Adventure
    By Jill Esbaum

    ... 49 (RT), Gregory Basco/ Visuals Unlimited/Getty Images; 49 (LO), Survivalphotos/Alamy UP TO THE UNDERSTORY: 50-51, Wilm Ihlenfeld/Shutterstock; 52 (LE), JH Pete Carmichael/The Image Bank/Getty Images; 52 (RT), Graham Bailey/Alamy; ...

  • The 10 Best of Everything: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers
    By Nathaniel Lande, Andrew Lande

    The ultimate guide for travel connoisseurs offers a series of top-ten lists in dozens of categories and more than thirty extraordinary trips and expeditions on every continent, including Antarctica, covering...

  • Life Pre-Intermediate Student's Book with App Code
    By John Hughes, Paul Dummett, Helen Stephenson

    Now in a new edition, National Geographic Learning brings the world to your classroom with Life, a six-level integrated-skills series with grammar and vocabulary for young adult and adult English language learners.

  • Creatures of the Desert World and Strange Animals of the Sea
    By Jerry Pinkney, Barbara Gibson

    Creatures of the Desert World and Strange Animals of the Sea

  • Celebrate Thanksgiving
    By Deborah Heiligman, Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck

    Tells the history behind Thanksgiving and the traditional ways it, and similar harvest festivals, are celebrated all over the world.

  • Celebrate Diwali
    By Deborah Heiligman

    Describes what Diwali is and the different ways that Hindu people celebrate it, including making special foods, setting off fireworks, and lighting oil lamps.

  • Celebrate Ramadan and Eid Al-fitr
    By Deborah Heiligman

    Describes what Ramadan is, how Muslims celebrate this month-long holiday, and how it ends with the celebratory festival of Eid al-Fitr.

  • Volcanoes
    By Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis B. Fradin

    Describes what volcanoes are, what causes them to erupt, and their effect on the landscape.

  • Dakotas: Where the West Begins
    By John Milliken Thompson

    The Bakken shale formation , a layer only 5 to 20 feet thick , lies 2 miles beneath the earth's surface . Once the rig drills into this formation , it can be steered horizontally another mile to find the oil . Some estimates claim the ...

  • Ireland
    By Christopher Somerville

    Takes readers to the beautiful and beloved island of Ireland. Paperback original.