Tilbury House Nature Book – serie
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19 produkter
Secret Pool
Inbunden, 2013
111 kr
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Often mistaken for mere puddles in the woods, vernal pools are the source of life for many interesting creatures. If you look carefully, you can find them and be amazed! These secret pools form every year when low places on the forest floor fill up with rain and melted snow. They soon become home …
The Pier at the End of the World
Inbunden, 2019
203 kr
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*THE PIER AT THE END OF THE WORLD is on the CBC NSTA 2016 Outstanding Science List* With lyrical writing and stunning underwater photography, this picture book follows a day in the life of the denizens lurking in the cold, tide-swept waters beneath a remote pier on the shore of a northern sea.
Eye of the Whale
A Rescue Story
Häftad, 2016
119 kr
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What followed was a rare and remarkable demonstration of animal behavior. This celebrated story, beautifully depicted in Jennifer O’Connell’s mesmerizing paintings, will make you wonder about animal emotions and the unique connections we can have with animals—even whales.Fountas & Pinnell Level M
Hawksbill Promise
The Journey of an Endangered Sea Turtle
Inbunden, 2019
203 kr
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Mary Beth Owens was inspired by heradmiration and concern for these critically endangered animals to write andillustrate this beautiful book. The narrator—a craggy, ancient jumby tree thatstands sentinel over the bay—observes a hawksbill’s arrival by night, herarduous trek to excavate a nest and …
Caribou Alphabet
Häftad, 2015
119 kr
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Also included are a compendium of caribou facts and a new afterword about caribou in the twenty-first century. Journey into the magical world of the caribou, North America s own reindeer.A Tilbury House classic with 30,000 copies soldExpanded paperback edition includes a haunting new afterword by …
When the Bees Fly Home
Av Andrea Cheng
Häftad, 2015
119 kr
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Worried about the drought that has caused a big decrease in honey production, his dad is irritable and remote, seemingly unable to offer the acceptance that Jonathan yearns for. But one sleepless night Jonathan joins his mother in the kitchen making beeswax candles for sale, and discovers an outlet …
If You Are a Kaka, You Eat Doo Doo
And Other Poop Tales from Nature
Av Sara Martel
Inbunden, 2016
203 kr
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Baby golden tortoise beetles pile poop on their backs to create a shield as protection from predators. Silver-spotted skipper caterpillars can shoot their poops 40 times their own body length to conceal their true locations. Baby hoopoes squirt their poops into the eyes of attackers -- and who …
Secret Pool
Häftad, 2016
119 kr
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If you look carefully, you can find them and be amazed! These secret pools form every year when low places on the forest floor fill up with rain and melted snow. They soon become home to hatching wood frogs, spotted salamanders, and fairy shrimp. Even in late summer and fall, when many vernal pools …
Mother Earth's Lullaby
A Song for Endangered Animals
Av Terry Pierce
Inbunden, 2018
203 kr
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When Mother Earth bids goodnight, / the world is bathed in silver light. / She says, “Goodnight, my precious ones.” / Nature’s song has just begun. Mother Earth’s Lullaby is a gentle bedtime call to some of the world’s most endangered animals. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition create a quiet moment for …
World Never Sleeps
Inbunden, 2018
203 kr
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This nonfiction picture book reveals the hidden lives of insects and other small creatures from one midnight to the next. The world may appear to be sleeping in the dead of night, but it is not. As moonflowers open and stars shine, nature goes about her business. The world never sleeps. Natalie …
Season of Flowers
Inbunden, 2018
203 kr
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Snowdrops and crocuses yield to tulips and hyacinths, then dogwood blossoms, iris, lupine, daisies, morning glories, daylilies, geraniums, peonies, sunflowers, roses, and chrysanthemums as spring passes to summer, then autumn. At last the garden slumbers into winter under a blanket of snow, …
Secret Bay
Häftad, 2019
105 kr
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Narrated in the poetic voice of the estuary itself, and accompanied by natural-history sidebars about estuary plants, animals, and cycles, THE SECRET BAY is another topnotch nature book from the author and illustrator of the award-winning, bestselling The Secret Pool.A stand-alone book and a …
Three Lost Seeds
Stories of Becoming
Inbunden, 2019
203 kr
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Each of the three seeds in this story—a cherry stone in Iran, an acacia seed in Australia and a lotus seed in China—survives a difficult journey through flood, fire or drought, then sprouts and ultimately flourishes.
Secret Galaxy
Häftad, 2020
119 kr
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Inspired by Tilbury House’s award-winning, Kirkus-starred book The Secret Pool (2013).A lyrical narrative voice (the voice of the Milky Way galaxy itself) is augmented by sidebars filled with amazing facts and insights about our galaxy, and by extension, our universe.Features Mike Taylor’s …
Charlotte's Bones
The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field
Av Erin Rounds
Häftad, 2020
119 kr
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In 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer’s field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale’s skeleton have …
Pier at the End of the World
Häftad, 2021
100 kr
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What can you see beneath an old, old pier on the edge of a cold sea? An ugly wolffish munching a live sea urchin, a hermit crab switching shells, a garden of anemones, a starfish eating a clam, a 35-pound hundred-year-old lobster guarding his domain, and more strange and wonderful creatures than …
The Secret Galaxy
Inbunden, 2019
177 kr
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A lyrical narrative voice (the voice of the Milky Way galaxy itself) is augmented by sidebars filled with amazing facts and insights about our galaxy, and by extension, our universe.
Secret Bay
Inbunden, 2015
177 kr
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Narrated in the poetic voice of the estuary itself, and accompanied by natural-history sidebars about estuary plants, animals, and cycles, THE SECRET BAY is another topnotch nature book from the author and illustrator of the award-winning, bestselling The Secret Pool.A stand-alone book and a …
My Busy Green Garden
Av Terry Pierce
Inbunden, 2017
164 kr
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So begins this lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that make the garden such a busy place. With each turned page, more visitors appear, and all the while the “surprise”—a chrysalis—changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly emerges and flies away across the garden’s well-tended …
