Product Description: ¡Imagínate un pulpo que dispara una tinta amarilla! A Octavia y a sus amigos marinos les encanta jugar juegos con camuflaje para practicar como esconderse de una criatura grande y hambrienta . Octavia, sin embargo, parece no conseguir el color adecuado cuando trata de expulsar su nube de tinta morada...read more

Product Description: Esta secuela al apremiado Camas de agua: Durmiendo en el océano (Learning Magazine s 2007 Teachers Choice Award & 2005 Mom s Choice) lleva al lector en un barco alrededor del mundo para que aprenda como los mamíferos duermen alrededor de diez importantes ríos del mundo en todos los continentes excepto en la Antártica...read more

Product Description: Huracán...sólo la palabra nos trae en mente el poder de estas catástrofes. La gente mira las noticias y sabe de la llegada inminente. Tapamos las ventanas y juntamos provisiones. Nosotros podríamos acurrucarnos en nuestras casas o ir tierra adentro...read more

Product Description: La imaginación se eleva del suelo de la selva, a través del toldo y regresa, siguiendo el círculo de la vida en esta hábil adaptación de la canción Y la hierba verde creció y creció. La selva se hace viva en la medida en que los niños aprenden sobre una amplia variedad de animales y plantas que viven en la exuberante selva del Amazonas...read more

Product Description: ¿Y si Juan y Julia hubieran estado jugando en una duna de arena suave en vez de en esa colina peligrosa? Y suponte que el animal de María no era realmente un cordero. Y si María tuviera una pequeña... ¿almeja? Estas preguntas y otras serán contestadas de una forma graciosa en La madre águila pescadora: Canciones infantiles para boyas y gaviotas...read more

Product Description: What if Jack and Jill had been playing on a nice soft sand dune instead of that treacherous hill? And suppose Mary's pet wasn't really a lamb. What if Mary had a little . . . clam? Those questions and more are gleefully answered in Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls...read more

Children will delight in discovering the many plants and animals who call the rain forest home in a clever adaptation of the song 'The Green Grass Grows All Around.'

Product Description: From A's Saint Andrew's Day to T's thistle, from E's Edinburgh to Z's Zetland, this journey through the alphabet and across the breathtaking beauty of Scotland is an educational adventure for all readers. With a glossary of important Scottish figures, historical places, and events, this book is a perfect addition to any children's library...read more

This sequel to the award-winning Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (2007 Teacher s Choice & 2005 Mom s Choice) takes readers on an around-the-world boat ride to learn how mammals sleep in or around ten major rivers of the world on all continents except Antarctica. Row down the Mississippi and watch two river otters slip into a hollow tree or look to the bank of the Brisbane River as a platypus pops into a hole and disappears into a narrow tunnel. Told in a soothing style, this book serves as a bedtime/naptime story for younger children or an animal geography book for older children. Adults may learn something, too! For Creative Minds Section Includes: Animal adaptation matching activity, Asian short-clawed otters, Beavers, Boto Dolphins, Capybaras, Hippos, Indus River Dolphins, Mink, Platypus, River otters, Water Voles, World Map, Where in the world?, Geography questions. Thanks to the following animal experts who verified the information in this book: River otters: Kelly Reno, River Otter Aquarist at the SC Aquarium, Rico Walder, Assistant Curator of Forests, Tennessee Aquarium Beavers: Kathryn Dudeck, Wildlife Director at Chattahoochee Nature Center Boto (Amazon) dolphins: Tamara Mcguire PhD, Amazon Researcher with Virtual Explorers Capybaras: Rachael Macy, Zoological Manager/Carnivores at the St. Louis Zoo Water Voles: Rob Strachan, of The Mammal Society (UK) Mink: George Shurvington, Wildlife Biologist, and Karen Armstrong, Conservation Education Consultant at the Missouri Department of Conservation Indus River Dolphins & Boto Dolphins: Frazer McGilvray, Senior Manager at Conservation International Asian short-clawed otter: Lisa Smith, Curator of Large Mammals at Zoo Atlanta. Hippos: Loran Wlodarski, educator at SeaWorld Orlando Platypus: Geoff Williams, Australian Platypus Conservancy.

Product Description: Mmm-mm! Forest animals squeak, tweet, slurp, yip and chomp over the sweet, plump fruit of a wild blackberry bush. But what happens when a bear arrives to take part in the feast? Young children will enjoy following the story by making the animal sounds, and the chaos that strikes upon the bear's arrival will surely bring on the laughter...read more

Product Description: Mmm-mm! Forest animals squeak, tweet, slurp, yip and chomp over the sweet, plump fruit of a wild blackberry bush. But what happens when a bear arrives to take part in the feast? Young children will enjoy following the story by making the animal sounds, and the chaos that strikes upon the bear's arrival will surely bring on the laughter...read more

Product Description: In only a few short years, Sylvan Dell Publishing has earned accolades from magazines and associations nationwide. Enjoy 13 of Sylvan Dell's most decorated titles with this Award Winners & Finalists Set, which includes NAPPA Award Winners, a Children's Choices Award Winner, and Teacher Choice Award Recipients...read more

A soothing bedtime story answers the question of how marine mammals--animals that breathe air--manage to sleep in the ocean, inviting children to drift into peaceful sleep on the gentle waves of imagination.

Product Description: Octavia Octopus and her sea-animal friends love playing camouflage games to practice how they would hide from a big, hungry creature. Octavia, however, just cannot seem to get her colors right when she tries to shoot her purple ink cloud...read more

Product Description: Ten ethnic versions of Cinderella story from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Middle East are summarized and worked into lessons for the middle and upper grades. Each story is accompanied by a Booktalk for review, a Motifs & Ideas for discussion, a Connection to a subject area, and a Vocabulary for cloze exercise...read more

Ming's wishes at the tree on Lunar New Year with his grandmother always seemed to come true, but one year the tree does not help, and he alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the spirit of the tree.

By following her mother's admonition to perform every task with care and love, a poor young Mexican girl wins the devotion of the governor's son.