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    Dandelion Seed

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    A dandelion can teach much about seeds and seasons and cycles-and the big world that a wind-blown seed can travel-but it also can make us appreciate the challenges it must overcome. This gorgeous book is at once simple and profound.

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    Dandelion Seed’s Big Dream

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    Consider the dandelion. It lives life fully, flies with beauty, survives storms, endures darkness, never gives up. It is one of nature's greatest success stories. Like dandelions, each of us can make the world a brighter place. The trick is to bloom right where we are.
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    Daytime Nighttime, All Through the Year

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    Eagles fish for breakfast, bats eat mouthfuls of mosquitoes, squirrels busily gather acorns, and cougars quietly prowl through snow. Diane’s delightful rhyming verses depict the diverse lives of two animals for each month of the year—one animal that’s active during the day and another active at night, for a total of 24 fascinating critters.
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    Drop Around the World

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    This book is a year-after-year favorite with teachers. It engagingly leads readers around the world following a drop of water-whether as steam or snow, inside a plant or animal, or underground-teaching the wonders and importance of the water cycle.

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    Going Home: The Mystery of Animal Migration

    HOME_COVERRetail Price:Paperback • $8.95 | Hardback • $16.95 Web Special discount available at checkout Teachers!-you'll love this one, which is almost a whole unit on migration wrapped in a winning combination of easy verse, factual language, and beautiful illustrations. For animals, migration is a powerful compulsion, sometimes over long distances, often skipping meals. Sometimes, as in the case of the monarch butterfly, a round-trip takes several generations. Why do they do it? How do they succeed?
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    Green Bean! Green Bean!

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    A freckled-faced young gardener opens a packet of seeds. And the magic begins! Crisp verses take the reader through the growing season—from a sprout peeking out, to a curlicue catching dew, to a vine twining on a line, until finally . . . GREEN BEANS!
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    In a Nutshell

    NUT_COVER.jpgRetail Price: Paperback • $8.95 Web Special discount available at checkout Here, in luminous illustrations, is the life cycle of an oak-and how it supports life even after it is gone. An acorn drops from a great oak and grows. Animals nibble at it, a fire threatens it, but overcoming many challenges it eventually towers high in the forest, observing the changing human scene below.
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    Lifetimes

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    Teachers and parents-this book is an outstanding teaching resource, much more than the title might suggest. Beginning with "A lifetime for a mayfly is about one day," it presents 24 "lifetimes" such as that of an earthworm (about six years), a giant sequoia (about 2,000 years), a bacteria ("well, that depends"), a dinosaur ("never again") and the universe (about 15 to 20 billion years).

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    Pass the Energy, Please!

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    Here's a favorite of elementary science teachers for the food chain. Each of nature's creatures "passes the energy" in its own unique way. In this upbeat rhyming story, the food chain connects herbivores, carnivores, insects and plants together in a fascinating circle of players. All beings on Earth ? from the anchovy to the zooplankton ? depend upon the green plant, which is the hero of the story.

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    Pitter and Patter

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    Take a ride with Pitter on a water cycle! Tumble from the sky, careen off a leaf, plunge into a stream as you travel through a watershed. Then take a ride with Patter—even through an underground cave. Oh, the places you'll go and the creatures you'll see. A water drop is a wonderfully adventurous thing to be!

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    Salmon Stream

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    Named a prestigious CBC/NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, this is a poetic yet accurate description of the life cycle of salmon. For kids, it's fun and eye-opening. For teachers, it's a valuable supplement to a unit on water, fish and ocean animals, and the life cycle. Fast-paced prose and brilliant illustrations follow the salmon from their form as eggs in a stream to the wide ocean, eventually making a hazardous journey home to their stream of origin.

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    Tree in the Ancient Forest

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    Science teachers and ecologically minded parents-this book is a delightful introduction to the habitat in and around old trees. As AAAS Science Books & Films says, "the science is accurate and the book painlessly teaches important ecological lessons." From lowly fungi to majestic owls, the book connects the web of nature. Repetitive, cumulative verse-a poetic technique that children universally enjoy-aptly portrays the amazing ways in which the inhabitants of the forest depend upon one another for survival.