Books in Take a Peek series series

No Student Left Indoors is your opportunity to learn and teach about our planet by helping your students to create a field guide to your schoolyard. Whether you're a nature buff or nature-phobe, a literary genius or writing impaired, artistically talented or one who can't draw a straight line with a ruler, and teaching gift or challenged students in an urban, suburban, or rural school—you'll wonder why you didn't think of this before.You'll learn:Who can participate in and benefit from a schoolyard studyWhat those benefits areWhere to look for nature in your schoolyardWhen to conduct your studiesHow to teach students to discover, observe, and record the nature in your schoolyardWhy everyone is talking about No Student Left IndoorsThis is a project for a class, grade, or entire school. It can be a long-term project based on inquiry, investigation, and hands-on learning, The project connects science, language arts, history, creative arts, and technology.

A fun lift the flap, pop-up book!There's a whole wonderful world to explore, animals to seek, and a pop-up to peek at in this charming search and find book for young children. Babies and toddlers will be delighted by over 20 flaps plus a super pop-up at the end! There will be smiles and giggles galore as they look under each flap, check out jungle friends, and learn their colors and numbers along the way. "Seek and peek! Can you find a yellow animal?" Kids learn colors as they search for different animals.

A fun lift the flap, pop-up book! There's a whole wonderful world to explore, animals to seek, and a pop-up to peek at in this charming search and find book for young children. Babies and toddlers will be delighted by over 20 flaps plus a super pop-up at the end! There will be smiles and giggles galore as they look under each flap, check out farmyard friends, and learn their colors and numbers along the way. "Seek and peek! Can you find 4 of me?" Kids will discover animals and numbers in this fun book.

Henri Rousseau's famous 1908 jungle painting Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo is presented through the windowed format of this appealing cousin of the pop-up book—the tunnel book. Following the tradition of the paper peep show, sturdy covers support the two ends of an accordion-pleated paper tube that can be stretched out to provide a three-dimensional view of Rousseau's flora and fauna, including snakes in the trees and tigers ready to pounce, all layered in paper cutouts faithfully reproduced from the painting. A 16-page book providing an introduction to the self-taught French painter and his fantastical canvases is also included.

The playful skeletons made popular in Mexican artist José Guadalupe Posada's etchings and lithographs dance the fandango, play music, make tortillas, and woo their lovers in this expandable accordion book that provides a 3-D view of Posada's cavorting skeletons. A 16-page, bilingual English–Spanish book on Posada's life, the social significance of his comic calaveras, and the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead is included.

The incredible beauty and biodiversity of the coral reef is brought to life in this expandable accordion book that stretches out to provide a 3-D view of a multicolored undersea world. A look into the tunnel reveals clownfish hovering over a field of anemone tentacles, a spotted moray eel poking its head out from its hiding place, and the countless other sea creatures inhabiting this magnificent, endangered ecosystem. A 16-page guide to the fish and corals of the reef is also included.

The dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period come to life in this expandable accordion book that provides a 3-D view of more than a dozen prehistoric creatures. Beautiful, scientifically accurate illustrations include the stars of the dinosaur world, including the three-horned Triceratops and the huge carnivore Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as the lesser-known Styracosaurus, or "spiked lizard," with horns sprouting from its head and neck. A 16-page guide to the Cretaceous period and its dinosaurs is also included.

The brilliant birds roost and strut in this expandable accordion book that provides a 3-D view of a scene from a Latin-American folktale. A 16-page guide tells the story of how these birds, once drab and grey, got their colorful plumage. The tale, in both English and Spanish, introduces young readers to birds both real and imagined, and teaches a lesson of patience.