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  • Vegetables in the Garden

    Pascale De Bourgoing

    Hardcover (Cartwheel Books, July 1, 1994)
    A new contribution to an award-winning series features brightly painted, see-through pages that illustrate the inside of familiar fruits and vegetables and enable children to understand the composition of growing things.
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  • Scholastic First Discovery: Whales

    Jeunesse Gallimard, Gallimard Jeunesse, Ute Fuhr

    Paperback (Scholastic Reference, Jan. 1, 2008)
    The next wave of titles in the relaunch of the highly popular First Discovery series. Big, colorful illustrations and simple, direct text show kids the wonders of whales.Scholastic First Discovery: Whales, with its fresh cover design, kid-friendly paperback format, and larger trim size, offers young readers an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand introduction to whales and other marine animals. Full-color, highlighted illustrations are accompanied by brief, simple text full of fun facts. Four transparent acetate pages in this title add a fun visual kick.
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  • Water

    Pierre-Marie Valat

    Spiral-bound (Moonlight Publishing, April 1, 2012)
    Raindrops, icicles, puddles, rivers, oceans, dams, hoses, and taps—readers will learn that water is falling, melting, and flowing all around us in nature, at home, and even inside us.
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  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Yann Walcker, Charlotte Voake

    Hardcover (Moonlight Publishing, May 3, 2012)
    Beethoven did badly at school because all he could think about was music, and Mozart was one of his early admirers. Children will learn that they can make up a tune to their favorite poem and sing it, and that with only seven notes they can play countless tunes.
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  • Night Creatures

    Gallimard Jeunesse, Sylvaine Perols

    Hardcover (Cartwheel Books, Aug. 1, 1998)
    A brief introduction to nocturnal animals, emphasizing owls and bats.
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  • Baby Penguin's First Waddles

    Ben Richmond

    Hardcover (Sterling Children's Books, Jan. 2, 2018)
    “An attractive penguin book for children in the primary grades.” —Booklist What happens after a baby penguin emerges from her egg? Follow her journey and find out! Meet a penguin chick and see how she grows. Developed in tandem with the American Museum of Natural History, and featuring stunning photography in the penguin’s Antarctic home, this nonfiction picture book captures the first few months of a baby penguin’s life and her transformation into adulthood. With fun and engaging text, Baby Penguin’s First Waddles is sure to delight animal-loving kids. This book is a continuation of our AMNH series, which includes Wolf Pups Join the Pack and Baby Dolphin’s First Swim.
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  • Discovery Channel's Megalodon & Prehistoric Sharks

    Joe Brusha, Ralph Tedesco, Neo Edmund, Shaene Siders

    Paperback (Zenescope, Aug. 20, 2013)
    Enjoy this graphic novel's unique blast from the past as the ancestors of today's shark are brought to life again. See what types of shark used to inhabit the prehistoric world of dinosaurs and just how they survived in such a dangerous place. Find out what types of prehistoric creatures they hunted, and which ones hunted them!
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  • Henry Purcell

    Marielle Khoury, Charlotte Voake

    Hardcover (Moonlight Publishing, April 30, 2012)
    Purcell was a court musician like his father and uncle. He also wrote music for the theater—a mixture of instrumental pieces, songs, and dances. Children who have tried making up their own dance steps, or who can tell the difference between the sound of the violin and the viola, will find that they have much in common with Purcell.
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  • Under the Sea

    Claude Delafosse, Gallimard Jeunesse, Pierre De Hugo

    Hardcover (Cartwheel Books, March 1, 1999)
    Traveling deeper and deeper into the ocean with each page, children can use the special paper lamp to find colorful coral reef fish, eels, sharks, squid, jellyfish, octopus, catfish, and other underwater animals.
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  • Egyptian Tomb

    Claude Delafosse, Sabine Krawczyk

    Hardcover (Cartwheel Books, Aug. 1, 1999)
    In this interactive book, young readers become an archaeologist at the tomb of an Egyptian woman named Nenufar, discovering a tunnel to the tomb, ancient paintings, dishes, and the mummy itself.
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  • The Moon

    Philippe Biard

    Spiral-bound (Moonlight Publishing, Dec. 1, 2017)
    Through a series of captivating illustrations and diagrams we find out about the different phases of the Moon, and observe both lunar and solar eclipses. We follow early attempts to reach the Moon as well as the first Moon landing, and what the astronauts took back with them. We also look at the satellites of other planets and plans to build a space station on the Moon.
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  • The Earth and Sky

    Jean-Pierre Verdet, Gallimard Jeunesse, Sylvaine Perols

    Hardcover (Cartwheel Books, Sept. 1, 1992)
    Colorful drawings encourage young readers to turn a brightly colored transparent page to reveal the Earth revolving around the Sun, in a sturdy board book.
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