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A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this interactive guessing book, beautifully illustrated in cut-paper collage, which was awarded a Caldecott Honor.
This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read Aloud Informational Text).
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Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins shines as the author of this amusing and thorough introduction to animal homes. Turtles, birds, fish, beavers, and kangaroos are just like people--they need homes, and take up residence in unusual places. A simple main text introduces similarities between human and animal homes while sidebars detail the unique qualities of each animal and its home. Stylized yet realistic watercolor illustrations prove that nonfiction...
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By the Numbers infographic readers, accessible nonfiction packed with full-color cut-paper illustrations from Caldecott honor—winning Steve Jenkins. Solar Systems focuses on ever-astonishing outer space.
Through infographics and illustrations readers will learn about the unfathomably huge and fascinating topic of solar systems. Explore the galaxy that surrounds our planet through astounding numbers, facts, and figures.
With Steve Jenkins's signature...
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What happens around in the world in twenty-four hours? Award-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins shares tons of amazing facts, figures, and stunning infographs in this early reader perfect for curious kids.
In this latest stunning, informative reader in Steve Jenkins' By the Numbers series, explore what happens around the world with humans, animals, and even microorganisms in just twenty-four hours. From how much humans eat and how far migrating...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Where do nineteen of the speediest animals on the planet live, how big are they compared to humans, and just how fast are they? These and other questions are answered through infographics, facts, and figures¿́¿and Steve Jenkins' signature artwork.
12) Living color
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, pink -- animals can be amazingly colorful. Why are they found in so many hues? How do their brilliant feathers, scales, shells, and skin help them survive? Find out ... how animals use color to warn predators, signal friends, attract a mate, or hide from their enemies.--Front dust jacket flap.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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...explains how for most animals, eyes are the most important source of information about the world in a biological sense. The simplest eyes--clusters of light-sensitive cells--appeared more than one billion years ago, and provided a big survival advantage to the first creatures that had them. Since then, animals have evolved an amazing variety of eyes, along with often surprising ways to use them.--Amazon.com.
16) The beetle book
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This book opens with basic beetle structure and function, and then covers topics such as reproduction, feeding, communication, and defense mechanisms, presenting illustrative cases across double-page spreads.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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How many species are there across the globe? How much do all of the insects in the world collectively weigh? How far can animals travel? Steve Jenkins answers these questions and many more with numbers, images, innovation, and authoritative science in his latest work of illustrated nonfiction.
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Why does a plover stroll into a crocodile's mouth? And how does a turtle keep a hippopotamus clean? This book looks at the strange and wonderful symbiotic partnerships between some unlikely animal pairs, from ravens and wolves that hunt together to the egrets that protect antelope and receive food in return.
20) Time to sleep
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Flamingos sleep standing up, balanced on one leg. White storks sleep while flying. In what other unusual ways do animals catch their ZZZ's?