Books with author Nicola Davies

Swim with a baby dolphin as he learns to survive -- and play -- in an engaging story splashed with facts and buoyed by bright illustrations. Pop! Tail first, head last, Dolphin is born into the blue. He's brand new, but helped by his mother, he swims up, up, up to take his first breath. Readers are invited to join the baby calf as he follows his mom and discovers all there is to know about life under the sea, from catching his first fish to learning how to say his name with his very own whistle. Nicola Davies's lyrical narrative and intriguing facts are accompanied by Brita Granstrom's colorful illustrations, pulsing with the energy and movement of dolphins in their natural habitat.

Everything You Need to Know about Animals, a spin-off on the all-encompassing reference Everything You Need to Know, and Everything You Need to Know about Science delivers exactly what its title promises. Arranged thematically into 5 core topics that explore the huge variety in the animal kingdom, how they get around, how they eat, animal senses and reproduction. Readers' imaginations will be fired on every page with this perfect one-volume encyclopedia which includes activities, glossary words, Internet links, and fascinating facts that will keep kids inspired. wonderful single-volume animal encyclopedia. Informative and interactive features perfectly enhance and consolidate each reference section.

Lions and scorpions and lethal little jellyfish, oh my! Kids will sink their teeth into this fascinating look at nature’s fiercest creatures.Sometimes nature can be nasty: snakes that spit poison, insects with exploding bottoms, and tigers that have you for dinner. Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures are equipped with lethal weapons, from finger-length fangs to toxic tentacles, and have ingenious ways of killing one another — poisoning, dive-bombing, strangling, and even electrocuting! Discover the murderous methods of attack and defense that make animals armed, dangerous, and deadly.Back matter includes an index and a glossary.