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Animals: Black and White

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Find the answers to seven black-and-white riddles in a beautiful book of nature's bold designs! What cuddly giant loves to chew bamboo? What mammal swims with its friends in a school? What bird "flies" gracefully through the water?

Animals: Black and White

Dinosaurs Roar, Butterflies Soar!

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What are as light as a feather and as old as the dinosaurs? Butterflies! With a lively text and vibrant paper-collage illustrations, award-winning author Bob Barner brings us a wonderful look at the amazing history of butterflies, and how their lives intersected with the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Readers will be fascinated to discover that when they stop to admire a beautiful butterfly, a dinosaur may have once done the same! This gorgeous, rollicking, informative book is sure to become a favorite of budding scientists everywhere.

Dinosaurs Roar, Butterflies Soar!

Seahorses

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Did you know that the smallest seahorses are about the size of a quarter? How do seahorses eat without teeth? Get fact-packed answers to these fascinating questions in this exciting, colourful, and interactive TumbleBook!

Seahorses

Sea Otter Rescue

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Copies: 6

Sea Otter Rescue is the third in the four-book Wildlife Rescue series. Each book introduces a species of animal in danger somewhere in the world and profiles a rescue center that helps it. Stunning photos by award-winning wildlife photographer Suzi Eszterhas give readers a rare view of these endearing creatures and the high level of care they receive.

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1010L
Sea Otter Rescue

What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling

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Copies: 6

Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating sweeping change to help the environment.

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1090L
What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling

Animals by the Numbers

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Copies: 6

Do all the insects in the world weigh more than all the humans?

Which animal can survive both boiling water and the vacuum of space?

Which animal sleeps more, a python or a bat?

Which animal is more dangerous: a shark or a hippopotamus?

In Animals by the Numbers, Steve Jenkins answers these questions and many more. Mind-boggling facts, figures, and comparisons are explained with colorful, easy-to-understand infographics and illustrations. Filled with unexpected and accessible information, this is a book to pore over for hours!

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940L
Animals by the Numbers

Apex Predator: The World's Deadliest Hunters, Past and Present

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The Siberian tiger, the great white shark, and many other present-day apex predators are powerful and deadly. But in the past there were even more lethal killers - animals that stalked their prey thousands or millions of years ago.

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1020L
Apex Predator: The World's Deadliest Hunters, Past and Present

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