Books with author Martina

Warthogs belong to the pig family. You can easily believe that when you see one. They are called warthogs because of the bumps on their faces that look like warts. The difference from the common pig is that warthogs have two sets of tusks. What are these tusks for? Find out by reading this book filled with amazing facts about the warthog. You might be familiar with an adorable warthog cartoon character named Pumbaa. The question is, are warthogs really like this creature that we all love? Read this book so you can find out for yourself. Learn more about the warthog. Learn what the warts are for. Learn where they dwell, what they eat and what their social characteristics are. Are warthogs social creatures? Do they live together or are they solitary ones? How do they protect themselves against predators? How do they take care of their young? These questions and more will be answered for you in this book. This book also comes with more than 20 colorful photos of the warthog in its habitat. These pictures will help children create an image in their mind that will help them understand this amazing animal.

Grizzly bears belong to the brown bear family. There are many species of brown bear which includes the black bear and also the polar bear. These bears are called grizzlies because of the white tips on their fur which make the fur look grizzled. Grizzly bears have a peculiar hump on their back. They are tall and heavy. They cannot see very well. That is why they have to use their sense of smell to find food and avoid their enemies. In this book you will learn more about the grizzly bear. You will learn that these bears are actually very athletic. You will learn what types of food they eat and how they get their food. You will learn about their social life and how they take care of their cubs. Do grizzly bears have predators? Do they really sleep all throughout winter? Are they fierce animals? Do they attack humans at sight? Are they endangered? These questions and more will be answered in this book. There are also more than 20 colored photos of the grizzly bear in its natural habitat. These photos will help young children create a vivid image of the grizzly bear that will help them in understating the life of this amazing animal.

17-year-old November Lonergan spent her whole life feeling like an outsider; like she was different. She was right. She’s a reaper like her mother; like her two cousins, Kai and Tristin. The supernatural world believes they are part of a prophecy to save them from an evil known as the Grove. Ember just wants to survive high school and fix the fallout from bringing back her friend. Old enemies are lurking; waiting for their opportunity to strike but the pack has a new problem. A group of legendary hunters has resurfaced, threatening the reapers and anybody who stands with them. They are making good on their threats too; attacking those closest to the pack.Their only hope of defeating the Legionaries involves trusting a stranger to perform a dangerous spell to advance Ember and her cousin’s powers. But Ember has a secret; a secret she can’t tell the pack. One that leaves the pack vulnerable.An attack on pack allies, leaves one member of the group injured and another missing, along with a mysterious girl named Evangeline who may play a bigger part in this than any of them realize. As the Legionaries are closing in, the pack must trust their enemies, enter hostile territories, and play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopath. Their entire plan lynches on a dangerous bargain, but rescuing one member of the pack could mean losing another in their place…possibly forever.

Pandas are those cute black and white bears which look almost like the stuffed toys we see in toy stores. Their faces resemble that of a raccoon while their bodies look like bears, that is why the nickname “large bear cat” was given to them. These bears are only found in China and it is a well known fact that pandas love eating bamboo. But what other things do we know about the panda? This book will help you discover the many amazing traits and habits that this animal has. You might have unanswered questions about the panda. Why is it commonly called a “giant” panda? If they are bears, do they also hibernate during the winter? Do they just eat bamboo and nothing else? Are they friendly or shy animals? Do they move fast or slow? Do they attack? Are there predators that feed on pandas? How do they take care of their young? What is a red panda? You might have asked any one of these questions. By reading this book you will find the answers to these questions and many other interesting and amusing facts about pandas. This book also contains many beautiful photos of the panda in the forests of China. These pictures will help your children understand more about the life of the panda in the wild.

The crocodile must be one of the scariest looking animals in the planet. With its sharp teeth and armor-like scales, you wouldn't want to be found in a crocodile's pathway especially when it is hungry! But what is a crocodile really like? It is really fierce? Do they really attack animals larger than they are or even humans? Read this book and find out amazing facts about this creature.There are also a lot of amusing things you will learn about the crocodile in this book. Did you know that there are times that crocs, as they are nicknamed, open their mouths wide to cool themselves? Why is this so? Did you know that they sometimes eat stones? Did you know that a mother crocodile can lay eggs as many as 90 at a time? Did you know that there are different types of crocodiles in different locations in the world?Learn about all these facts in this book. Learn about the uses of their body parts. Learn about how they catch their food. Learn about how mother crocodiles take care of their young. Learn all these things and much more.To add life to the information, colored photos are included which will also help the reader visualize the creature in his thoughts and thus help in learning more about it.

Introduce children to opposites in this tabbed, brightly illustrated board book!In this first concept book, little ones can turn the tabbed pages to learn about opposites! The spreads feature the concepts of up and down (a rocket and car), long and short (two snakes), slow and fast (tortoise and bunny), loud and quiet (two lions), and big and small (two dinosaurs).

Three reapers. Two worlds. One prophecy.Seventeen-year-old Ember Lonergan has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Mace is a monster, a soulless assassin tasked with a single purpose: follow Ember. He only has two rules. Do not interact with her. Do not to kill her. Simply watch and report. But Mace has never been good at following orders, and Ember is a temptation he simply can't resist. Whisked away to a small Florida town, Ember must learn to embrace a family she's never known, a supernatural world she never knew existed, and a power so vast it just might kill her. All that stands between Ember and destruction is that beautiful dangerous boy from the cemetery. Can she learn to trust him before it's too late?

The crocodile must be one of the scariest looking animals on the planet. With its sharp teeth and armor-like scales, you wouldn't want to be found in a crocodile's pathway especially when it is hungry! But what is a crocodile really like? It is really fierce? Do they really attack animals larger than they are or even humans? Read this book and find out amazing facts about this creature. There are also a lot of amusing things you will learn about the crocodile in this book. Did you know that there are times that crocs, as they are nicknamed, open their mouths wide to cool themselves? Why is this so? Did you know that they sometimes eat stones? Did you know that a mother crocodile can lay eggs as many as 90 at a time? Did you know that there are different types of crocodiles in different locations in the world? Learn about all these facts in this book. Learn about the uses of their body parts. Learn about how they catch their food. Learn about how mother crocodiles take care of their young. Learn all these things and much more. To add life to the information, colored photos are included which will also help the reader visualize the creature in his thoughts and thus help in learning more about it.

In the cool waters of the deep oceans all over the world, a dangerous and magnificent creature lurks and waits for its prey. This creature, known as the great white shark, is the largest predator of the ocean. It is known to feed on meat such as sea birds, turtles, otters, dolphins, and even some types of whales. The great white shark is indeed an interesting as well as dangerous animal. In this book, you will learn many facts that will lead to a deeper understanding of this fierce and beautiful creature. You will learn about how they hunt and how they communicate. You will learn about their amazing senses. You will also learn about their relatives and their young. Along with these facts, you can enjoy the 20 stunning color pictures of the sharks themselves in this book. While you read and study the pictures, you will learn all there is to know about great whites and how they live.

It may be somewhat shocking to learn what humans have in common with other primates. These primates have hands and feet, shoulders and hips, and unlike most animals and mammals who rely on their sense of smell, the arrangement of a primate's brain is like a human's, which relies on sight and social order. This means that Apes and humans and monkeys are all classified as primates. But in contrast to the evolutionary theory which claims that we humans are genetically 95 to 99 percent close to Apes and monkeys, there is a massive difference in posture and locomotion alone. Humans' hair, nervous system, and way of communication, among other things, also separate them from these lesser types. Like the human race that is a class of its own with diverging traits, these lesser types also have their own varying qualities. After freeing you from these obscuring evolutionary beliefs that pester every serious reader studying or seeing a picture of an ape or a monkey, this book will help you classify the distinctive makeup of an orangutan. It will teach you how to tell a monkey from an ape. It will show you what characterizes an orangutan from the rest of the other primates. Who are their predators? How many species are there and how do they differ? What is their closest relative? Why are they becoming extinct? This and much more intriguing information that makes them stand out from the rest can be found in this book. Also included in the book are more than 20 descriptive photos which show the reader their unique color and help them visualize what it means to have a flange face. It will also give the reader a look into what is becoming an extinct species.