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Publisher:
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
"Cumulative text based on an old folksong alternating with additional scientific information explores the role of prairie dogs, a keystone species in North America's grasslands, and conservation efforts to restore the balance of plants and animals of the Janos, Mexico, prairie dog complex. Backmatter includes timeline, photographs, music, prairie dog facts, glossary, and authors' sources"-- Provided by publisher.
Author:
Publisher:
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
Description:
The fascinating true story of a beautiful native Hawaiian butterfly, a great Hawaiian warrior king, and current-day efforts by scientists and citizens to restore the butterfly's declining population. The beautiful Kamehameha butterfly lives in Hawaii and nowhere else on Earth. Named to honor the great king who united the Hawaiian Islands, the butterfly is one of only two species native to Hawaii. After the Kamehameha butterfly became the state insect—thanks...
Author:
Publisher:
Holiday House
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
One makes colorful paper collages; the other, intricate environments out of found objects. And yet the author and the remarkable bowerbird are truly birds of a feather. Susan L. Roth is like a bowerbird, a small black bird found in Australia and New Guinea that builds elaborate structures from various materials they find near their habitats. Though Susan creates books to attract readers and bowerbirds build bowers to attract a mate, both get their...
Author:
Publisher:
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Language:
English
Description:
"A cumulative verse, alternating with additional narrative, describes the ecological and social transformation resulting from the work of Dr. Gordon Sato, a Japanese American cell biologist who made saltwater and desert land productive through the planting of mangrove trees in the tiny African country of Eritrea. Includes afterword, photographs, glossary, and author's sources"--Provided by publisher.
Author:
Publisher:
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date:
[2022]
Language:
Spanish
Description:
"DURANTE SIGLOS, las bellas y escandalosas cotorras puertorriqueñas y los pobladores de la isla de Puerto Rico buscaron alimentos, sobrevivieron los huracanes, cuidaron su descendencia y protegieron sus casas. Pero las cosas comenzaron a cambiar y, con el tiempo, los árboles donde anidaban las cotorras fueron destruidos. En 1967, solo quedaban veinticuatro cotorras en estado silvestre. Los humanos casi habĂan causado su extinciĂłn. ÂżSerian capaces...
Author:
Publisher:
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date:
[2017]
Language:
English
Description:
"A collection of original poems about New Year celebrations throughout the year and around the world. Includes an introduction about worldwide New Year celebrations plus a map, information about calendars, New Year greetings in many languages, additional factual information about the celebrations, and author's sources"--
20. Made in Mexico
Author:
Publisher:
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
Description:
Describes the importance of the guitar in Mexico, especially in Paracho, a town which is becoming the center of the Mexican guitar industry.