Product Description: What's that furry little animal with long, thin fingers and huge eyes? It's a tarsier! This tiny primate is active mostly at night, jumping from tree to tree, as it looks for food. Beginning readers will learn all about these unusual creatures in this simple yet playful nonfiction text...read more

Product Description: What planet is known as Earths twin? Venus! The two planets are about the same size, and Venus also has mountains, canyons, and volcanoes. However, Venus is much hotter than Earthwith temperatures reaching 880F. It is also unlike Earth because its thick atmosphere is filled with poisonous gases...read more

Product Description: Introduces the planet Venus and compares it with the Earth.

Product Description: There are rows of beach chairs at a seashore. Stripes on the chairs make an alternating pattern: red, white, red, white. Wind blows the sand and moves it around, making a wavy pattern. Four pelicans facing different directions sit side-by-side on a dock...read more

Product Description: A police dog weaves back and forth along a busy city street, using its powerful nose to sniff the ground. The working canine is searching for hidden bombs. In this exciting introduction to police dogs, beginning readers will learn all about the brave and loyal dogs that wont let anything keep them from getting the job done! From chasing after criminals to sniffing out explosives, police dogs are hard at work keeping people safe and protecting their police officer handlers...read more

Product Description: Describes the diet, life cycle, behavior, and habitat of crickets.

Product Description: The English mastiff is the heaviest dog in the world. An adult mastiff tips the scales at more than 250 pounds (113 kg)as much as a refrigerator! For thousands of years, English mastiffs have lived alongside people. These massive dogs were used to guard castles and help English soldiers in battle...read more

Product Description: Underwater, near the edge of a river, a little tadpole emerges from an egg. So begins the life of an American bullfrog. In this coming-of-age introduction to these fascinating amphibians, readers will learn that a female bullfrog lays up to 20,000 eggs...read more

Product Description: Newfoundlands are big, strong dogs that are often trained to rescue swimmers who are struggling in the water. They have been nicknamed "lifeguard dogs" because they have saved so many people from drowning! One of the oldest dog breeds in the world, Newfoundlands are descended from dogs native to an island off the eastern coast of Canada called Newfoundland...read more

Product Description: In ancient Egypt, people thought that cats were descended from gods and had great powers. Cats even lived in palaces with pharaohs who revered them as sacred beings. Some people think that Abyssinian cats were bred in Egypt thousands of years ago because they look like the cats in ancient Egyptian art and hieroglyphics...read more

Product Description: Book by Lunis, Natalie, Oldfield, Dawn Bluemel

Product Description: Ground frogs are great jumpers. Some of these amazing amphibians can leap almost 20 times the length of their bodies! That would be about the same as a person leaping the full length of a basketball court in one hop. Ground frogs use their excellent leaping ability to catch food and escape from predators...read more