Books with title North American Cranes

Like fastfact readers, this core knowledge and curriculum guide offers personal accounts, maps and primary sources and offer the highest quality graphic presentation to thrill young readers. With hundreds of facts about North America and the world during the Age of Discovery and Exploration this book will introduce the logic of world trade and stimulate imaginative and thrilling reading and rereading.

"North America extends from the Arctic regions of Canada and Greenland to the deserts of Mexico and countries of Central America. The landscape of North America ranges from grasslands to deserts. Learn more about this exciting environment in North America. This is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. This book comes alive with video, audio, weblinks, slide shows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more."--

This seven-book series is a user's guide to locating Earth's continents and the countries of the world. Kids will learn that more than 200 million years ago, all continents began as part of Pangaea, a supercontinent that broke up to form seven continents. They will acquire map-reading skills by learning the directions in which longitude and latitude lines point, where the equator is, and what the prime meridian is. The final chapter in each book features a scientist, related to the continent, with specialties that range from dinosaurs to the study of volcanoes. North America is a continent of many natural wonders. It has the longest coastline of any continent in the world at 190,000 miles, including the island of Greenland and the Caribbean islands. It has two of the world's major mountain ranges: the Appalachians in the east and the Rocky Mountains in the west. North America contains every kind of climate on Earth, from frozen tundra to tropical wetlands. It has sunny beaches and arid deserts. It contains 23 countries, including Canada, the second largest country in area on Earth, the United States, and Mexico.

Deep canyons, grassy plains, high mountains, lonely deserts, beautiful beaches and other miracles of nature are all a part of North America. It's a continent of extremes -- rocket launches, twisters that rage across the countryside, earthquakes, ice hockey matches played in Inuit villages, the skyscraper city of New York, grizzly bears, alligators and other colorful wildlife, the Great Lakes, and the huge sculptures of Mount Rushmore are just some of the highlights and they're all in this book! Besides the user-friendly maps that let you know exactly where everything is, you'll find each country's colorful flag displayed. And look out for the page of removable stickers in the center and the interesting activity, useful glossary and index at the end.