Download or read book Hawksbill Promise The Journey of an Endangered Sea Turtle Tilbury House Nature Book written by Mary Beth Owens and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a deserted bay on a small island off Antigua where hawksbill turtles crawl ashore at night during the mating season to lay their eggs. Two months later the hatchlings—each weighing less than an ounce—emerge from the sand and scramble to the sea in the moonlight. Only a lucky few survive. Mary Beth Owens was inspired by her admiration and concern for these critically endangered animals to write and illustrate this beautiful book. The narrator—a craggy, ancient jumby tree that stands sentinel over the bay—observes a hawksbill’s arrival by night, her arduous trek to excavate a nest and bury her eggs, her solitary return to the sea, and the later diaspora of her hatchlings. Spare prose complements pages saturated with Caribbean color or brooding in ghostly moonlight.
Download or read book Hawksbill Promise written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Beth Owens was inspired by her admiration and concern for these critically endangered animals to write and illustrate this beautiful book. The narrator -- a craggy, ancient jumby tree that stands sentinel over the bay -- observes a hawksbill's arrival by night, her arduous trek to excavate a nest and bury her eggs, her solitary return to the sea, and the later diaspora of her hatchlings. Spare prose complements pages saturated with Caribbean color or brooding in ghostly moonlight.
Download or read book Keepers of the Reef written by Sharon Wismer and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes children to the underwater world of Australia's Great Barrier Reef for a prime example of how a complex ecosystem depends on its keystone species. Sharon Wismer—reef ecologist and mom—is the best tour guide a kid could have for a visit to the underwater world of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Alice Wong’s richly detailed, accurate watercolors take a boy and girl snorkeling to see the fishes that maintain the ecological balance between the corals and their main competitor, algae. Without the fish species that brush, crop, scrape, excavate, and browse the algae, coral reefs would die. A coral reef is a brilliant and colorful example of how a complex ecosystem functions and why its keystone species are critical to its health. The Great Barrier Reef is one of Earth’s most celebrated natural treasures. Here children discover why the reef is threatened and what we can all do to help protect it. Endorsements are coming from Charlie Veron (“the godfather of coral,” featured in the 2017 film Chasing Coral) and David Bellwood, a world-renowned reef fish ecologist whose lab is the source of much of the information in this book. Keepers of Reef is the rare children’s book combining cutting-edge science with narrative and pictorial magic. Thorough backmatter sources and resources are included.
Download or read book Interrupted Journey written by Kathryn Lasky and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There’s a sense of wonder in the simple words and the huge, thrilling color pictures in this photo-essay about a vanishing species." — Booklist (starred review) Limp and frozen, a Kemp’s ridley turtle washes up on Cape Cod. When a boy named Max finds it, the turtle appears to be dead. But is it? Award-winning author Kathryn Lasky and photographer Christopher G. Knight take young readers on a riveting tour that begins on the icy shores of Cape Cod, where expert teams attempt to revive the Kemp’s ridley, and ends on the warm beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, where turtles of this rare breed are born and may return to lay eggs of their own. All sea turtles are threatened or endangered, but the Kemp’s ridley is the most endangered of all — and this awe-inspiring story makes it clear why we should want to protect them.
Download or read book If You are a Kaka You Eat Doo doo written by Sara Martel and published by Tilbury House Nature Book. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poop as shields. Poop as weapons. Poop as food. These are just some of the many ways that wild animals use poop in nature.
Download or read book Mother Earth s Lullaby A Song for Endangered Animals Tilbury House Nature Book written by Terry Pierce and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bedtime book about endangered species When Mother Earth bids goodnight, / the world is bathed in silver light. / She says, “Goodnight, my precious ones.” / Nature’s song has just begun. Mother Earth’s Lullaby is a gentle bedtime call to some of the world’s most endangered animals. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition create a quiet moment for children burrowing down in their own beds for the night, imparting a sense that even the most endangered animals feel safe at this peaceful time of day. In successive spreads, a baby giant panda, yellow-footed rock wallaby, California condor, Ariel toucan, American red wolf, Sumatran tiger, polar bear, Javan rhinoceros, Vaquita dolphin, Northern spotted owl, Hawaiian goose, and Key deer are snuggled to sleep by attentive parents in their dens and nests under the moon and stars. Brief descriptions of each animal appear in the back of the book.
Download or read book Finding Oli written by Marjorie Tyler and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story. Finding 'Oli, rescuing and treating her when she was sick, the joy of returning her to a new life in her Maui ocean. This heartfelt book is educational - how turtles are born, migrate, and the importance of protecting our marine life.
Download or read book Three Lost Seeds Stories of Becoming Tilbury House Nature Book written by Stephie Morton and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To author Stephie Morton, nature's powerful forces are a metaphor for the hardships faced by displaced children. Kids, like seeds, thrive when given a chance. Each of the three seeds in this story—a cherry seed in the Middle East, an acacia seed in Australia, and a lotus seed in Asia—survives a difficult journey through flood, fire, or drought, then sprouts (in the case of the lotus seed, a hundred years later) and flourishes. Stephie's verses and Nicole Wong's art make a picture book to treasure.
Download or read book Reference World Atlas written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully clear, detailed, and fully revised and updated guide, DK's Reference World Atlas gives a superb overview of all the world's regions. Providing a detailed reference map set, the atlas also features computer-generated terrain-modeled maps and the landscapes, bringing an all-new dimension to cartography. This ninth edition of DK's respected Reference World Atlas includes all recent border, place name, and flag changes from around the world, including the emerging state of South Sudan.
Download or read book Panda Whispers written by Mary Beth Owens and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like the many animal parents who wish their babies good dreams at bedtime, a human father wishes sweet dreams to his child.
Download or read book The Fabled Life of Aesop written by Ian Lendler and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by two-time Caldecott Honor winner Pamela Zagarenski, this is the only picture book not only tells the story of Aesop but includes his most child-friendly fables.
Download or read book The Caribou Alphabet written by Mary Beth Owens and published by Tilbury House Nature Book. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical celebration of the caribou.
Download or read book Be Blest written by Mary Beth Owens and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents prayers for each of the months of the year, including search-and-find paintings of plants, animals, and insects.
Download or read book Crossword Solver written by Anne Stibbs and published by Bloomsbury Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aid to solving crosswords. It contains over 100,000 potential solutions, including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and inflections of verbs. The list extends to first names, place names and technical terms, euphemisms and compound expressions, as well as abbreviations.
Download or read book Riverby written by John Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Burroughs was one of the earliest and most articulate pioneers of the United States conservation movement, publishing twenty-eight books on the natural world during the height of the Industrial Revolution. As an author, teacher, and poet, he wrote with intimacy and feeling, illustrating verbal landscapes and providing philosophical insights about the environment. People by the hundreds of thousands relished his writings. His friends included Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and John Muir. Burroughs was dedicated to studying the world and making nature come to life on the written page,
Download or read book The Secret Spiral written by Gillian Neimark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ten-year-old is tasked with saving the world in this adventure novel that is “captivating, satsisfying, and thrilling at the same time” (Children’s Literature ). It’s just another boring Wednesday in May for ten-year-old Flor Bernoulli of Brooklyn, New York. But it turns out to be a day like no other: She finds a mysterious key that gives her special superpowers, takes a journey across the ocean and through the Milky Way, and even meets her long-lost father. It all starts when her favorite neighborhood baker, the mysterious Dr. Pi, reveals that he is an ancient wizard, in charge of every single thing in the world that has the shape of a spiral—from seashells to galaxies to the inside of your ear. He needs her help to save the spiral from two strangers who have come to steal its power and destroy it. And so begins the magical adventure of a lifetime, where Flor learns that only she has the magic to keep the world spinning just as it should.
Download or read book One Tiny Turtle written by Nicola Davies and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic double-page pictures convey the astonishing facts about the Loggerhead sea turtle. . . . A powerful nature story for a young audience." —Booklist Far, far out at sea lives one of the world’s most mysterious creatures, the Loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Then, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs—the very same beach where she herself was born. Nicola Davies’s lyrical text offers fascinating information about the journey of the tiny, endangered Loggerhead, while charming paintings by Jane Chapman vividly illustrate one turtle’s odyssey.
