Books with title The Great Animal Race

Get ready, get set, GO! When the best engines from around the world gather to compete in The Great Railway Show, Thomas is determined to find a way to represent Sodor. But he's left disappointed as Gordon is chosen to be the new "Shooting Star" for The Great Race. With Gordon and the other engines making the journey to compete, something suddenly goes terribly wrong… and Gordon is in danger! Will Thomas get to the mainland in time to help him and save the day? Join Thomas and his new international friends in this high-speed adventure where friendship always wins!

Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog—until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish—and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled, but can the dogs deliver it in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.A Kansas City Children’s Book Award for Grades 1–3

Read all about BarbieTM and her sisters' amazing adventures in the new animated series BarbieTM Dreamhouse Adventures in this Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader--plus stickers!Barbie and her sisters--Chelsea, Stacie, and Skipper--always have fun as they travel all around the world in the new animated comedy series BarbieTM Dreamhouse Adventures. Children ages 4 to 6 will love reading this Step into Reading Step 2 Reader based on BarbieTM Dreamhouse Adventures. It features over 30 sparkly stickers! Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.Since 1959, Barbie has shown girls that they can live their dreams. From an astronaut to a chef, to the first woman president, she knows that girls can do anything!

Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog - until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish - and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled, but can the dogs deliver it in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.

Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Some heroes are born. But most are made. Follow the epic adventures of Alexander Salamander and his best friend William Brown, an average little boy who transforms himself from the physically ordinary to the unexplained extraordinary. When he learns to move like the animals in the forest, he gains a fluid, free form of strength and agility. This he will desperately need because he is in a Great Race against fierce competitors. Magical animals help him get through the darkest, creepiest forest, just crawling with crocodiles, eels and snakes. William soon learns that it takes more than muscle to survive.

Balto has a quiet life as a sled dog—until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in Nome become sick with diphtheria. Without antitoxin serum, they will perish—and the closest supply is 650 miles away! The only way to get the serum to Nome is by sled, but can the dogs deliver it in time? Heading bravely into a brutal blizzard, Balto leads the race for life.A Kansas City Children’s Book Award for Grades 1–3

An all-new winter-themed Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader featuring Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines—plus shiny stickers! Blaze and his Monster Machine friends transform into race cars for a chance to win a wintry race! But troublesome Crusher will do anything to win—even cheat! Can Nickelodeon’s Blaze and the Monster Machines stay cool under pressure as Crusher tries to knock the friends off course? Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will thrill to this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader, which features more than 30 shiny stickers. Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Race into action with Blaze and the Monster Machines! Preschoolers will learn about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) as they help Axle City’s greatest hero overcome Crusher’s cheating ways and save the day with Blazing Speed, spectacular stunts, and awesome transformations!

Long ago, when the world was still quite new, buffaloes used to eat people. It is true? The hair on their chins is hair of the people they use to eat...It is Terrible to think about those times... But the Creator saw the people's distress and decreed that a contest be held between all the two-legged and four-legged creatures. Who would win, thundering Buffalo or fleet-footed Man? None of the other animals was fast enough, and before the end, Beaver and Muskrat slipped off into a cool stream, Jack-rabbit hopped off across the plain, and Mole and Gopher tunneled underground (and may still think the race is on). The winner was decided long ago, in Sioux and Cheyenne legend. Buffalo -- who lost -- agreed to give up eating men for dinner, and thanks to the cunning of a single magpie, Man became the guardian of the natural world.

Possibly the most extensive and entertaining book about the Space Race yet published. Follows the evolution of space flight from the V2 rocket through to the first landing on the moon by Apollo 11. Now includes:Book One: First into Orbit and Book Two: First to the MoonDid you know that the US Government prevented Wernher von Braun from launching a satellite a year before Sputnik? Or that one of his engineers had a satellite hidden in the trunk of his car, just waiting for an opportunity? That mousetrap springs were used in the Vanguard rocket to save costs? What stopped Khrushchev's plan to put a man in orbit in 1958 and allow him to die there?At the end of WW2 the US Army captured the German V-2 rocket research centre at Peenemunde just weeks ahead of the Soviets. Within days they'd stripped the site and shipped train loads of rocket components to the United States. Their most valuable prize however, was Wernher von Braun, head of the German V-2 program, and his team of scientists. Along with thousands of vital documents, this group was flown to America to work in an Army research facility at El Paso, New Mexico.When Peenemunde was handed over to the Soviets as part of the allied post war agreement, they found the cupboard literally bare. It was up to Sergei Korolev, head designer for Soviet rocket research, to examine what was left and re-create the V-2's design. Leading a team of Soviet and captured German scientists, within a year they'd built a Russian version of the V-2, and the race for missile supremacy with the United States had begun.Book One - First Into Orbit - describes the competition between the USA and the Soviet Union up to the launch of Sputnik, Explorer and Vanguard. It also follows the careers of the men behind both nation's rocket research programs - Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev.Fear gripped America when the Soviets developed the A Bomb years ahead of predictions, making way for a climate of paranoia when senator McCarthy began his Communist witch-hunt and a civil defence program tried to convince the population that there was no need to be afraid of the "bomb". The somewhat tragic-comedy "Duck and Cover" campaign is described, along with links to the video productions used to educate the youth of the era.It took the launching of Sputnik 1 in October 1957, to shake the Americans out of their complacency, only for them to realize they'd been eclipsed by the Russians. Panic gripped the nation as Sputnik 1 orbited, and a month later Sputnik 2, containing the dog Laika, caused a public outcry. America, that bastion of freedom and supposed world leader in technology had been outclassed by "a nation of potato farmers".After the first attempt by the US to orbit their Vanguard satellite ended in an embarrassing explosion on the pad, von Braun was given the go ahead. In less than 90 days, his team orbited Explorer.Book Two - First to the Moon - takes you through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, and the Soviet, Vostok, Soyuz and Salyut programs, up to the landing on the moon by Apollo 11.This section includes radio transcripts from several of the Apollo missions including Apollo 11. It also reveals the desperate last minute attempts by the Soviets to upstage Apollo 11 with their N1 moon rocket and their Luna 15 robot probe.The Great Space Race covers one of the most exciting periods of world history, an era when the true spirit of adventure was alive in America and the world respected them for it.