Follow a young puffling's life from hatching to adulthood and learn about the bustling and precarious world of Atlantic Puffin City in this imaginative nonfiction audiobook. Puffins! features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the crashing waves of the Atlantic coast and the unique, rhythmic grunting calls of puffins in their burrows!On the edge of the sea,There is a nesting island as loud as a city,...

Dash! Hide! Splash! Ride! Exuberant text celebrates all the different ways animals play, from rhinos taking mud baths and parrots somersaulting through the air to kangaroos boxing and dolphins diving through the surf. Additional text explains how playing benefits animals. Fascinating back matter gives more information about the featured animals in the book and encourages readers to make time to play every day!

Pancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms!From Maria Gianferrari, award-winning author of Play Like an Animal!,comes a beautiful collaboration between verse and science. Brief poems and ethereal illustrations introduce readers to the many different types of ice on land and at sea. Fascinating back matter provides additional information about water as a solid, liquid, and gas, as well as mor...

Follow a young puffling's life from hatching to adulthood and learn about the bustling and precarious world of Atlantic Puffin City in this imaginative nonfiction picture book.On the edge of the sea,There is a nesting island as loud as a city,Where two puffins mate, burrow, and lay their egg.They splash into the oceanAnd dodge nearby predators,Searching everywhere to find food for their hungry puffling.F...

Infused with jubilance and warmth, this luminous, lyrical picture book celebrates the people and the work that put food on our tables.Bread, milk, wool, fruits, and vegetables: things that fill our day to day lives. But where, and who, do they come from? Across wheat fields and city rooftop gardens, mushroom beds and maple forests, Thank a Farmer traces the food and clothing that a family uses back to the people who harvested and created them.With ...

Follow the Satin Bowerbird as he searches for the perfect welcome mat for his new home, in this delightfully colorful and action-packed nonfiction tale by award winning author Maria Gianferrari, and illustrated by comic-star Maris Wicks.Just on the edge of the rainforest,Between your house and the trees,Bowerbirds collect, pillage, and steal!They swoop through the air,And creep around the forest floor,Search...

For Zara’s dog, Moose, nothing is more important than being with his favorite girl. So when Zara has to go to school in her wheelchair, WHOOSH, Moose escapes and rushes to her side.Hello, Moose!Unfortunately, dogs aren’t allowed at school and Moose has to go back home.Goodbye, Moose.But Moose can’t be held back for long. Through a series of escalating escapes, this loyal dog always finds her way back to Zara, and with a little bit of training and on...

In this picture-book companion to Penny & Jelly: The School Show, Penny is invited to a slumber-under-the-stars sleepover! But there's one small detail that derails the dynamic kid-dog duo: no pets allowed. Penny and Jelly have to think quick—if the real Jelly can't go, then maybe a pretend Jelly can! A paper Jelly? Too rough. A yarn Jelly? Too soft. Jelly after Jelly just doesn’t work. But with a little creativity and a lot of heart, Penny figures out how to go to the sleepover—and bring ...

Stunning illustrations and gorgeous haikus lead young readers through the dramatic life cycle of one of America's most beloved wild animals.Pip. Pip. Pip. PokingA hole. Cracking. Cracking. OutPecks the white owlet.Watch as a pair of great horned owlets peep and squeak in their feathered nest. Mama and Papa hunt for food and fend off predators while the chicks grow strong enough to hop and flap between the branches of...

Highlights presents Lucy and Tina: Four Ears and a Tail by Maria Gianferrari: This dog helps her deaf owner "hear."

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!Pancake ice, floebergs, glaciers, icicles . . . cold temperatures create an astonishing variety of ice forms!From Maria Gianferrari, award-winning author of Play Like an Animal!,comes a beautiful collaboration between verse and science. Brief poems and ethereal illustrations introduce readers to the many different types of ice o...

In this companion to Coyote Moon and Hawk Rising, a young bobcat searches a suburban landscape for a territory to call home.As the day breaks,feline eyes blink open,and yowls disrupt the still morning air.A young bobcat leaves tracks in the snow as he sets out to find a home range of his own. Amidst the harsh winds and icy chill of winter, Yearling travels between the deep wilderness and suburbia, hunting for prey as he goes....