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How Far Underground?: Burrowing Animals
Monika Davies
Paperback (Amicus Ink, Aug. 28, 2018)Many animals take refuge in underground burrows, from small frog burrows in the desert to the sprawling burrows of prairie animals. Comparisons to familiar objects give perspective and illustrated rulers show numeric distances. Includes a map, glossary, and further resources.
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I'll Be an Engineer
Connie Colwell Miller, Silvia Baroncelli
Library Binding (Amicus, Sept. 17, 2018)Readers follow along with a civil engineer as a young girl pretends to be an engineer designing and building a bridge with her father. Includes a glossary of engineering terms and an activity that lets readers practice building skills.
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From Milk to Ice Cream
Bridget Heos
Paperback (Amicus Ink, Feb. 6, 2018)Ice cream might be your favorite dessert, but do you know how it's made? This new series explains just that. Come along on the journey as common household foods travel from farm to factory to table. Learn how grapes are made into jelly and peanuts are made into peanut butter. With clear process explanations and charming illustrations, this series answers the questions of curious and hungry kids. A child wonders where ice cream comes from and learns about the jobs of a dairy farmer, a sugarcane farmer, and factory workers in an ice cream factory. This illustrated narrative nonfiction book includes a world map of where dairy cows and sugarcane are raised, glossary, and further resources.
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Tractors Pull
Rebecca Glaser
Board book (Amicus Ink, Aug. 16, 2016)Tractors help plow, plant, and water fields in this photographic board book.
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From Peanuts to Peanut Butter
Bridget Heos
Paperback (Amicus Ink, Feb. 6, 2018)Ice cream might be your favorite dessert, but do you know how it's made? This new series explains just that. Come along on the journey as common household foods travel from farm to factory to table. Learn how grapes are made into jelly and peanuts are made into peanut butter. With clear process explanations and charming illustrations, this series answers the questions of curious and hungry kids. A child wonders where peanut butter comes from and learns about the jobs of peanut farmers and how peanuts are harvested, and how peanuts are made into peanut butter and packaged at a factory. This illustrated narrative nonfiction book includes a map of where peanuts are grown, glossary, and further resources.
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Save Water Every Day
Mari Schuh
Library Binding (Amicus, July 1, 2013)Discusses ways to conserve water, including taking shorter showers, only running the dishwasher when it is full, and watering plants with rainwater collected from rain barrels.
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The Amicus Book of ABC
Isobel Lundie
Board book (Amicus Ink, Aug. 6, 2019)Unique collage art using recycled maps and marbled papers illustrates this alphabet boardbook for toddlers. The large letters and simple descriptions of familiar objects help foster letter recognition, whole descriptive language and repeated words create a fun story time read.
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Extraordinary Ordinary Ella
Amber Hendricks, Luciana Navarro Powell
Hardcover (Amicus Ink, Feb. 25, 2020)Ella is extraordinary. Extraordinarily ordinary, that is. Not graceful like Carmen or musical like Kenji, Ella is determined to prove herself at the school talent show. But when every attempt to find a talent falls flat and her own ordinary acts of kindness steal the show, Ella discovers just how extraordinary ordinary can be!
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Trucks Haul
Rebecca Glaser
Board book (Amicus Ink, Aug. 16, 2016)See a variety of trucks in action in this photographic board book.
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From Wheat to Bread
Bridget Heos, Stephanie Fizer Coleman
Library Binding (Amicus, July 1, 2017)"A child wonders where bread comes from and learns about the jobs of a wheat farmer, a miller, and a baker in a bread factory as they describe the steps in bread-making. This illustrated narrative nonfiction book includes world map of where wheat is grown, glossary, and further resources"--Provided by publisher.
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