Sharing nature with children

A selection of plants and animals of the world are presented in order of their longevity, and each reveals a special quality of their lifetime.

Take a close look at your local lake, pond or woodland pool. There are salamanders, frogs, minnows, cattails, and hundreds of other water-loving plants and animals. Here is the journal and scrapbook of Klint, a young Planet Scout who kept notes for a year on his discoveries and became engrossed by the daily drama of turtles, crayfish, dragonflies, and water skimmers.

Presents a history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the formation of Earth, in the form of a letter written by the thirteen-billion-year-old universe itself to an Earth child.

When her family moves to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Megan keeps a nature journal in which she describes the desert, the changes that occur throughout the seasons, and how these affect the plant and animal inhabitants.

A history of the Earth, from its formation through the appearance of mammals and the extinction of dinosaurs, in the form of a story told by the Universe itself to an Earthling.

As his Mama Du looks on, Okomi, a young chimpanzee, tries to climb a very tall, slippery tree to reach some tasty leaves.

Mama Du introduces her brand new baby, Okomi, to his father and the rest of the chimpanzee family group.

When a dragonfly slips in and lands on her toothbrush, Eliza escorts it to a nearby pond to learn more about these remarkable insects.

Okomi, a baby chimpanzee, begins to explore his world from the safety of his mother's lap.

Learning becomes fun with this book about the animals of the ocean! In Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef, amazing artwork will inspire kids in classrooms and at home to appreciate the beauty and biology of coral reefs and world around us! Brilliant artwork is the star of this oceanic counting book, based on the classic children's song "Over in the Meadow". Kids will sing, clap, and count their way among pufferfish that "puff," gruntfish that "grunt"...

"This introduction to a wild colony of honeybees offers close-up views of the queen, the cells, even bee eggs, and an understanding of their lives"--Provided by the publisher.

Looking for a new song to sing, five little birds go on a birdwatching trip and see species from the bald eagle in Alaska to mallard ducks in Boston.