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Books and Videos in Union #38 School Libraries:
What Do you Do With a Tail Like This Page, Robin
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 beautifully illustrated interactive guessing book
Home at Last, Song of Migration Sayre, April Pulley
Some animals have only one home. They may travel just a few inches, yards, or miles from that spot. But others migrate great distances. They spend part of their time in one home and part of it in another. On the journey in between, they may swim, crawl, fly, or walk a mile, a thousand miles, or even halfway around the earth.
When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange Bonner, Hannah
Bonner takes a lighthearted approach to a fascinating topic. The Carboniferous and Permian periods spanned 100 million years or so just before the better-known Mesozoic Era. The author describes many of the unusual plant and animal species from those times in a lively, conversational style.
Interrupted Journey Lasky, Katherine
There's a sense of wonder in the simple words and the huge, thrilling color pictures in this photo-essay about a vanishing species, the Kemp's ridley turtle.
The Tree of Life: Book Depicting life of Charles Darwin Sis, :Peter
A detailed look at the life of Charles Darwin: naturalist, geologist, and independent thinker
Actual Size Jenkins, Steve
In striking torn-and-cut paper collages, Jenkins depicts 18 animals and insects–or a part of their body–in actual size. One illustration compares an atlas moth with a 12-inch wingspan to a dwarf goby fish, which is 1/3-inch long.
What’s Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew Wells, Robert
In this presentation that goes from small to infinitesimal, Wells compares the size of a tiny animal (a pygmy shrew) to an insect (a ladybug), which is in turn contrasted with one-celled animals, bacteria, molecules, atoms, and sub-atomic particles
Case of the Monkey’s That Fell from the Trees Quinlan, Susan
This book presents a number of questions or "mysteries" concerning plants and animals in the tropical forests of South and Central America and explains how scientists answered those questions
Cactus Hotel Guiberson, Brenda
The intriguing life cycle of the saguaro cactus and the complex web of life that characterizes the North American Sonoran desert is effectively explored in this involving picture book. She weaves an amazingly large range of facts into this simple story of a fragile ecosystem, and helps children comprehend just how much plants and animals depend upon one another for their survival
Our Family Tree, Story of Evolution Peters, Lisa Westberg
The roots of our family tree reach back millions of years to the beginning of life on earth. Open this family album and embark on an amazing journey. You'll meet some of our oldest relatives--from both the land and the sea--and discover what we inherited from each of them along the many steps of our wondrous past.
Bold and Bright Black and White Animals Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
In this visually appealing picture book, Patent briefly describes animals with distinctive black-and-white patterns and gives the advantages those patterns provide
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