Mara Grunbaum - Böcker

The latest title in the blockbuster series, BIRDS brings you up close and personal with eight different bird species in astounding motion.Seeing is believing with the innovative and bestselling Photicular books, and now Birds gives readers a fascinating, up close look at bird behavior in living motion. The book features eight incredible moving images: Penguins hopping, Grebes in an elaborate courtship dance, preening lovebirds, the blinking eyes of an owl, geese migrating in V formation, a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower and a mother songbird feeding it's new hatchlings. The opening essay focuses on the incredible of birds and bird behaviors-the weird, the surprising-and birds' incredible ability to learn new behaviors. And the profile accompanying each animal image includes information on each species. It's an aviary that you can hold in your hands!

The latest title in the blockbuster series, BUGS brings you up close and personal with eight different bug species in astounding motion.Another addition to the bestselling Photicular series with over 1.3 million books in print, Bugs zooms into the tiny world of insects. Watch a grasshopper diving for its pray, a house fly rubbing its fore legs, a tarantula skittering across the floor, a leaf-cutter ant hauling a giant leaf up a branch, a dung beetle pushing its ball up a hill, a close-up of a damselfly's enormous eyes, and more. BUGS offers readers an up-close look at bugs in motion and a window into how they move and behave. Science writer Mara Grunbaum provides an opening essay that delves into the fascinating behavior of these wonderful creatures as well as a detailed profile accompanying each image.

The bestselling, eye-opening Photicular series goes majorly cute with baby animals in irresistible living motion.The bestselling Photicular series just got a cuteness injection with BABIES. Using an innovative lenticular-based technology, precision sliding lenses, and four-color video imagery, each image is like a 3D movie on the page, delivering a rich, fluid, immersive visual experience. A litter of puppies dash through the grass. A lion cub practices its roar. A mama horse and foal go for a gallop. A little chimpanzee gleefully bangs about. A sea lion pup lounges in the sun. Also featuring a penguin chick, mama bear and cub, and elephant calf.Through an introductory essay and animal profiles by science writer Mara Grunbaum, and amazing-and adorable-moving images of baby animals, readers will learn about how young animals in the wild sharpen their instincts, build bonds, and learn to survive.