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Books in First Flight series

  • Spiders

    Lionel Bender

    Paperback (Shooting Star Press, Inc, March 15, 1995)
    Part of a series which offers a view of different animals, through photographs, explanatory illustrations and a simple, informative text. This book on spiders concludes with a survival file examining the efforts to conserve animals in danger.
  • Crocodiles and alligators

    Lionel Bender

    Hardcover (Gloucester Press, March 15, 1988)
    Part of a series which offers a view of different animals through photographs, explanatory illustrations and a simple, informative text. This book on crocodiles and alligators concludes with a survival file examining the efforts to conserve animals in danger.
  • Polar Animals

    Lionel Bender

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts Ltd, July 15, 1989)
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  • Crocodiles and Alligators

    Lionel Bender

    Paperback (Franklin Watts, Aug. 1, 1990)
    Describes the physical similarities and differences among members of the crocodile family, and discusses their habits and behavior
  • Animals of the night

    Lionel Bender

    Unknown Binding (Shooting Star Press, March 15, 1993)
    Explains why some animals are more active at night and examines the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of such nocturnal animals as bats, frogs, toads, marsupials, and others.
  • Fangs and Me

    Rachna Gilmore

    Paperback (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Jan. 30, 1999)
    Veena and I'd been best friends for five years. Sure, I knew other kids, but I'd never hung out with anyone else. I've never been good at going up to kids and starting conversations. Or phoning them. What would I say?.. Veena, she understood me. She liked me, quiet and all. And she never freaked out about my spiders.
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  • Pythons and Boas

    Lionel Bender, Alan Male

    Hardcover (The Watts Publishing Group, Feb. 25, 1988)
    Describes the appearance, behavior, and habitat of different types of constrictor snakes.
  • Bright Paddles

    Mary Downie

    Paperback (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Sept. 30, 1999)
    Ann and Meg embark on a search for their fur-trader father with a group of voyageurs bound for Grand Portage. They brave harsh weather, food shortages, stray bears, and more in their triumphant odyssey across the wilderness of 18th-century Canada.
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  • Rain, Rain

    Maryann Kovalski

    Hardcover (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, May 30, 1999)
    Jenny, Joanna and Grandma -- the irrepressible trio from the best-selling Wheels on the Bus and Jingle Bells -- are back! In Maryann Kovalski's latest song-filled adventure, a rainy day dashes the girls' hopes for fun at the beach, until Grandma's spirited ingenuity makes it a day they'll never forget.
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  • Flying Animals

    June Loves

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 2001)
    Explains how prehistoric flying animals, insects, bats and other flying mammals, and birds fly, and describes early attempts at human flight.
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  • The Blue Door

    David McPhail

    Paperback (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, March 9, 2005)
    A silly sequel to The Sled, The Blue Door follows the further adventures of Fox and the Rabbit as they travel to the city to visit Fox's uncle. Fox hasn't seen his uncle since he was a pup, but he can recall the wonderful stories his uncle used to tell. And he knows that Uncle lives in a house with a blue door, so he should be easy to find. And sure enough, when the two come to the city, they find a house with a blue door. And inside lives an old gentleman badger who seems surprised but very pleased to entertain a long-lost nephew and his friend. But when they sit down for tea, Fox eagerly recalls his favourite stories. Uncle begins to look confused; he doesn't remember any of those things happening to him. And...come to think of it, Uncle actually doesn't remember having any nephew, let alone one of the long-lost variety.
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  • Poisonous Insects

    Lionel Bender

    Library Binding (Gloucester Pr, Aug. 1, 1988)
    Discusses insects that cause harm to other animals and to plants, and tells where they live, what they look like, and how they survive
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