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Books in Take a Closer Look series

  • Take a Closer Look at Your Brain

    Jane P. Gardner

    Library Binding (Childs World Inc, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Takes a closer look at the brain's role in the central nervous system. Explores how the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain help us perform separate, everyday functions.
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  • Take a Closer Look at Your Ears

    Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst

    Library Binding (Childs World Inc, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Takes a closer look at the ears' many parts and role in the auditory system. Explains how we hear noises and how ears help us perform every day actions from balancing to talking.
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  • Take a Closer Look at Your Muscles

    Jane P. Gardner

    Library Binding (Childs World Inc, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Takes a closer look at the muscles' role in helping the organs do their jobs. Explains the different muscle types and where we can find them in our bodies.
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  • Take a Closer Look at Your Nose

    Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst

    Library Binding (Childs World Inc, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Takes a closer look at the nose's role in the respiratory system. Explores the different parts inside the nose that help us breathe, smell, and even make mucus.
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  • River Life

    Barbara Taylor

    Hardcover (DK CHILDREN, Sept. 15, 1992)
    Examines, in text and photographs, the various animals and plants that live in and along a river.
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  • Take a Closer Look at Your Stomach

    Jane P. Gardner

    Library Binding (Childs World Inc, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Takes a closer look at the stomach's role in the digestive system. Explores the path food takes once it enters our bodies and ways we can keep our stomachs healthy.
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  • Take a Closer Look at Your Heart

    Janet Slike

    Library Binding (Child's World, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Takes a closer look at the heart's role in the circulatory system and our every day actions. Explains how to find your own pulse, how the heart pumps blood, and offers heart-healthy exercising and eating tips.
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  • Take a Closer Look at Your Teeth

    Jennifer Fretland VanVoorst

    Library Binding (Child's World, Aug. 1, 2013)
    Takes a closer look at the teeth's role in the digestive system. Explains the different types of teeth and how our teeth help us perform everyday actions from talking to chewing.
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  • Thomas & Friends - Fast & Slow Take-a-Look Board Book - Look and Find - PI Kids

    Claire Winslow, Editors of Phoenix International Publications

    Board book (Phoenix International Publications, Inc., Jan. 14, 2020)
    Thomas and his engine friends go FAST and SLOW all around the Island of Sodor. Search the scenes to find hidden objects NEAR and FAR, from the FIRST page to the LAST, while you learn about opposites! This book is special because: Little ones can explore the pages all on their own Connecting words with pictures builds vocabulary Matching and comparing are important early math skills Includes wonderful Thomas & Friends characters: Thomas, James, Annie, Claribel, Percy, and Sir Topham Hatt
  • The World Around Me

    Charlotte Guillain, Oliver Averill

    Hardcover (words & pictures, Oct. 20, 2020)
    Step out your front door and begin a journey of discovery around the world! Fold out the richly illustrated pages of this expansive accordion-fold book to clamber over mountain ranges, trek through jungles, and sail across vast seas. Spot wildlife, visit amazing cities, experience different cultures, and see famous landmarks as you whiz by. With so much to explore on this globetrotting adventure, it’s a good thing the book stretches to an incredible length of over eight feet—you’ll get halfway around the world before you even have to turn the page! Stretch out the book's concertina pages and take in the wonders of the world's cities and landmarks—traveling through over 60 countries. Then turn it over and explore the amazing diversity of creatures and landscapes on planet Earth. What can you spot on your travels? Explore even more of the world with the critically acclaimed The Street Beneath My Feet (March 2017) and The Skies Above My Eyes (August 2018), companion books from the Look Closer series.
  • Look Closer: Around the Farm

    Roger Priddy

    Board book (Priddy Books US, Jan. 2, 2018)
    You are invited on a journey through the busy and bustling farm in this beautifully illustrated board book with cut-through windows and over 30 farm animals to meet. On the Farm has an interesting acetate window on every page, which builds a layered effect, and as each new page is turned, a barn, pond, or field full of farm animals is revealed. Meet cows, sheep, farm birds, horses, and wildlife as well as spotting interesting wildlife along the way! Find out at the end if you've seen them all....
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  • Spooky Street

    Roger Priddy

    Board book (Priddy Books US, Aug. 8, 2017)
    Take a walk down Spooky Street to meet all the creepy neighbors that live in each haunted house. This interesting novelty book has a different house to explore on each page and clever peep-through holes to look through. The printed acetate windows reveal what's inside each spooky home and a special surprise at the very end of the book!
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