Books with author Wayne%20Lynch

This wacky collection features the feet of 14 creatures. Children can guess whose feet they see before turning the page to discover a photograph of the complete animal, along with amazing facts. 14 color photos. About the Whose? Animals series: Author and photographer Wayne Lynch reveals the world of wild animals. Each creature is introduced by showing a photo highlighting one feature and some clues. Then the complete animal is pictured along with more facts.

Tails for swimming, tails for balancing, tails like flags that lead the way. In Whose Tail Is This? some of the world's most fascinating tails are on display in all their bushy, scaly, or waggly glory. Following the same formula children loved in the previous seven books in his animal series, in Whose Tail Is This? Wayne Lynch asks children to identify everything from beluga whales to chameleons from up-close pictures of just their tails. With each turn of the page, a vivid color photograph of the entire animal is revealed. Accompanied by fun-filled facts and intriguing text, Whose Tail Is This? captivates young readers and introduces them to birds, animals, and reptiles from around the world. About the Whose? Animals series: Author and photographer Wayne Lynch reveals the world of wild animals. Each creature is introduced by showing a photo highlighting one feature and some clues. Then the complete animal is pictured along with more facts.

Renowned science writer Wayne Lynch has a passion and fascination for the members of the penguin family. A self-described "penguin addict," he has logged more than 130,000 miles to sit among hundreds, sometimes even thousands of penguins on the far-flung beaches of the Galápagos Islands, Chile, Antarctica and New Zealand. This stocky little bird survives a rocky adolescence and adulthood, to experience territorial squabbles, "marriages," attacks by sea mammals and sometimes months without food as it incubates its eggs through the unrelenting winter. With lively, humorous writing and unforgettable photographs, Penguins! explores the daily lives of this feisty seabird survivor.

Open wide and say "Ah" with Whose Teeth Are These? This latest addition to Wayne Lynch's animals series is a close-up look at creatures in the wild. From shy Tasmanian devils to deadly diamondback rattlesnakes, kids are sure to eat up these fun-filled facts and come back for seconds. About the Whose? Animals series: Author and photographer Wayne Lynch reveals the world of wild animals. Each creature is introduced by showing a photo highlighting one feature and some clues. Then the complete animal is pictured along with more facts.

Grade 3-5-These three titles are graced with eye-catching, full-color photos and illustrations. All three have Fun Fact sidebars interspersed throughout and lists of numerous Internet sites for further reference, but no further-reading recommendations. Clear texts provide information on physiology, life cycles, diet and hunting techniques, as well as habitats and family life. Vultures offers data on a global variety of species, while Falcons and Owls concentrate on the species found in North America. Falcons is more detailed than Deborah Kops's Falcons (Gale, 2000), while Vultures is similar to Mark J. Rauzon's Vultures (Watts, 1997). Owls is far less informative than Helen Roney Sattler's rich The Book of North American Owls (Clarion, 1995).-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY―School Library Journal

This is our fourth title in our highly-praised Our Wild World: Ecosystems series. Once again, author/ photographer Wayne Lynch takes readers on a personal journey through a treasured North American ecosystem. Amazing photography, first-person anecdotes, and tons of factual information on the animals, plants, climate and landscape come together to give a complete picture of the ecosystem in action. Subjects cover the wide diversity of living things in this habitat from strangler fig trees and bromeliad plants to armadillos and dozens of water birds. And of course gators! These gorgeous books are a feast for both the eyes and mind.

Whose nose is so big and floppy that it jiggles? Which birds can sniff out its prey even when it's hidden? Wayne Lynch returns with more colorful photographs and interesting text to keep young readers entertained. This time, children will find the biggest, smallest, and most unusual noses in the animal world, including giant tortoises, elephant seals, and turkey vultures. About the Whose? Animals series: Author and photographer Wayne Lynch reveals the world of wild animals. Each creature is introduced by showing a photo highlighting one feature and some clues. Then the complete animal is pictured along with more facts.

Did you know: Elephants poop enough to fill the trunk of a family car ... every day? Fossilized poop is called coprolite and scientists have found coprolites even older than the dinosaurs? Termite colonies use their own poop to help build castles as tall as a house? Award-winning author and photographer Wayne Lynch takes a fun and scientific look at poop in the animal world. Children will be fascinated to find out that some wild animals eat their dung, others use it to send messages or mark their territory, and some even squirt it on themselves to cool off! Filled with amazing facts, animal stories, and colour photographs, The Scoop on Poop will change the way you look at droppings forever. So join Dr. Lynch as he dishes out the scoop on poop, facts on feces, tips on turds, data on dung, and the goods on guano.

This book introduces children to birds, animals, and reptiles from around the world: polar bears, otters, cobras, parrots, and more! Each chapter begins with a photograph of the animal's home and a question: Who lives here? Children then flip the page to discover a picture of the animal and a collection of amazing facts. About the Whose? Animals series: Author and photographer Wayne Lynch reveals the world of wild animals. Each creature is introduced by showing a photo highlighting one feature and some clues. Then the complete animal is pictured along with more facts.

Wayne Lynch's Whose Baby Is This? is an excellent way for young readers to learn about baby animals in their natural habitats. Each section contains a photograph of a baby with some interesting facts, and on the following page is an image of the full-grown animal. Children will learn about loons and cougars, opossums and anteaters. After reading this book, youngsters will discover that asking questions is not only informative, but fun!

Who has eyes on the top of its head? Who has eight eyes, instead of just two? Whose grey eyes turn white as it gets older? In Whose Eyes Are These?, children are invited to identify everything from squirrels to vultures from up-close pictures of just their eyes. Is it a burrowing owl? A sand snake? An American crocodile? As they turn the page, a vivid color photograph of the entire animal is revealed. Accompanied by fun-filled facts and intriguing text, Whose Eyes Are These? captivates young readers and introduces them to birds, animals, and reptiles from around the world. About the Whose? Animals series: Author and photographer Wayne Lynch reveals the world of wild animals. Each creature is introduced by showing a photo highlighting one feature and some clues. Then the complete animal is pictured along with more facts.