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Eyewitness Explorers: Flowers
David Burnie
Paperback (DK CHILDREN, Sept. 15, 1997)Describes the physical characteristics and life cycles of flowers and examines kinds of garden flowers, woodland flowers, desert flowers, and others
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Smithsonian: Bug Hunter
David Burnie
Paperback (DK CHILDREN, Feb. 21, 2005)Presents general information about different insects and includes more than thirty activities to help study insects, such as building nets to capture butterflies and building moth traps.
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Animals By Design
David Burnie
Paperback (Sterling, )None
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BIRD
David Burnie
Paperback (DK Children, April 1, 1995)Featuring an extra-sturdy library binding! Here is an exciting and informative guide to the fascinating world of bird life. Superb color photographs of feathers, wings, skeletons, eggs, nests and newly hatched chicks only days old offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the natural history, behavior and life cycle of birds. See how newborn chicks hatch from eggs, how nestings grow in their first few days, how birds camouflage themselves against predators what birds eat and how they catch their prey. Learn how birds' bodies are designed for flight, why wings are different shapes and sizes, how birds evolved from their prehistoric ancestors and which are the world's biggest, smallest, slowest and fastest birds. Discover how and where birds make their nests, why eggs are different colors, how many feathers birds have and what each one is for and how to watch birds and attract them to your garden, and much, much more!
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Eyewitness: Light
David Burnie
Library Binding (DK Children, June 1, 2000)A guide to the origins, principles, and historical study of light.
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The Concise Nature Encyclopedia
David Burnie
Hardcover (Kingfisher, Sept. 15, 2006)This portable guide to the living world and its inhabitants -- both flora and fauna -- is a must for school and home. It explores every major plant and animal group, richly illustrating the extraordinary range of living things that are found in every corner of the planet, from microscopic single-celled organisms to giant redwoods and blue whales. Species features are a perfect source of bite-size information on animals or plants of particular interest, such as the Arctic bumblebee, the welwitschia plant, and the vampire squid.
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Life
David Burne
Hardcover (Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, March 24, 1994)This guide covers vegetable, animal, and human existence from its basic building blocks through all its evolutionary diversity to the complexities of modern genetic engineering. The topics include carbon, cells and organisms, photosynthesis, movement, growth and development.
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Dictionary of Nature
David Burnie
Hardcover (DK CHILDREN, March 15, 1994)Hundreds of full-color photographs, diagrams, and charts illuminate the definitions of more than two thousand key words pertaining to the natural sciences, arranged thematically and cross-referenced with a substantial biography section and comprehensive index.
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The Concise Animal Encyclopedia
David Burnie
Hardcover (Kingfisher, June 20, 2003)This compact marvel covers the animal kingdom from the tiniest protozoan to the mightiest mammal. Organized by classification and packed with vibrant photographs and informative detail, this visual safari covers the gamut of phylums, classes, orders, families, and genuses, including invertebrates, insects, amphibians, mammals, birds, and reptiles.Special feature panels that focus on various aspects of animal behavior including camouflage, migration, and hibernation enhance the clear layout. Easy-to-use, authoritative and a perfect gift for young animal lovers, this colorful volume is an ideal resource for the whole family.Special features include- Text that can be read section by section or as a complete article- Cross-references- Color-coded "Fact" boxes and fully annotated diagrams- Glossary and index
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