Mother Nature has asked that the magical creatures of the world take part in a challenge for her. The Cave of Courage, which supplies courage to all creatures the world over, is beginning to run dry and it needs to be replenished. To do so, Mother Nature has asked that a team be put together of various magical creatures, led by the Fairies, to complete a set of tasks before nightfall.
Grade 1-3 Sousa discusses venomous animals that use their poisons to defend themselves and capture prey. The short chapters have broad subject titles and focus on only a few creatures as examples. Realistic paintings support the texts well.
This book lures its readers into a magical world populated by appealing young creatures. Within its pages, children can see a baby beaver help build a dam, baby chicks learn to scratch for food, baby chipmunks scurry up a tree, and baby walruses bask on an iceberg in the sun. Wherever they live, baby animals do many of the same things that human youngsters do: play, eat, sleep, and find adventure. Including every kind of animal from birds and insects to mammals and reptiles, Animal Babies delivers a huge amount of information in a storybook-like style. The gripping and easily absorbed facts will inspire early readers to find out even more about each creatures life, habits, and habitat.
Get a prey's-eye view of a fearsome Allosaurus, take a too-close-for-comfort look at an Oviraptor's bone-crushing jaws, and see what it would be like to soar, wing-to-wing, with a flock of Pterodactylus. Providing a zoomed-in encounter with dozens of the most incredible creatures ever to walk, stalk, swim, or fly across the prehistoric planet, Dinosaurs Eye to Eye is packed with awesome imagery that brings children face-to-face with dinosaurs and other phenomenal prehistoric creatures.
The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice (Audiobook, MP3)
Everything you never knew about sushi: its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it. Trevor Corson takes us behind the scenes at America's first sushi-chef training academy, as eager novices strive to master the elusive art of cooking without cooking. He delves into the biology and natural history of the edible creatures of the sea, and tells the fascinating story of an Indo-Chinese meal reinvented in 19th-century Tokyo as a cheap fast food.
