Follows the growth of black bear cubs from a bear biologist's perspective, and includes facts about each stage in their lives, eating habits, playtime, and hibernation.
Juvenile literature
- Auteur:Swinburne, Stephen R.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Andrews McMeel PublishingSommaire:
Get ready to visit the best part of every zoo with Zoo Babies, a book for young readers to learn about exotic animals and their babies. Fun illustrations paired with easy descriptive sentences make this book a must-read. These babies...
- Auteur:Kimmel, Elizabeth CodySommaire:
Recounts how the sled dog Balto saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. Balto lives a quiet existence as a sled dog--until tragedy strikes. Dozens of children in the...
- Auteur:Sweet, MelissaSommaire:
Presents a tribute to the creator of the giant balloons that fill the sky during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, tracing the work of artist Tony Sarg, whose innovative "upside-down puppet" creations have become the parade's...
- Auteur:Croll, JenniferSommaire:
Covering everyone from Louis XIV to Prince, "Bad boys of fashion" looks at men across history who have broken the rules both in fashion and in life. For junior high readers.
- Auteur:Shapiro, OuisieSommaire:
A collection writings by children living with autistic siblings.
- Auteur:Aberkan, NaïlaSommaire:
Sais-tu quelle est la différence entre un château et un palais? Combien de pièces le château de Versailles comporte-t-il? Où a été construit le château de sable le plus haut au monde? La collection As-tu vu? répond à toutes...
- Auteur:Rivera, RaquelSommaire:
Describes true dramatized events in the lives of four modern Inuit artists. The stories range from a boy's survival adventure with his dog on shifting ice and a hunter's close-up encounter with a polar bear, to a shaman's...
- Auteur:Thomas, KeltieSommaire:
Outlines the way different types of animals, including livestock, pets, such creatures as silkworms that sparked trade, working beasts, noxious animals, and those that inspire the imagination, have influenced human civilization.
- Auteur:Smith, BarbaraSommaire:
"Kids encounter all kinds of animal ghosts in this spirited debut volume. Some involve pets, others involve wild animals, but all are based on fact and very, very scary! When a fishtank comes mysteriously to life, a boy struggles to...
- Auteur:Coey, JuliaSommaire:
Describes the field of wildlife rehabilitation through true stories of sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals given a second chance at a large urban wildlife center. Photographs demonstrate the efforts of staff and volunteers as they...
- Auteur:Pringle, Laurence P.Sommaire:
A biography of William Clark's personal slave, who provided invaluable assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Auteur:Rose, ArdenSommaire:
By the end of this book, you will have learned not only how to dress yourself, how to travel alone, how to talk to strangers online, and how to date strangers in person, but how to pass as a real, functioning, appropriately socialized...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Learn why a family in Borneo shares their garden with a black spitting cobra and about an eleven-year-old schoolgirl who names our newly discovered ninth planet, along with other stories about world cultures and world history.
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Learn why wood frogs make a dangerous journey each spring and how the people of Amherst, Massachusetts, helped spotted salamanders, along with other stories about lizards and amphibians.
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Learn how the arctic squirrel survives the winter and about the warning signs and habits of porcupines, along with other stories about land animals.
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Learn why hummingbirds are called "nature's top athlete" and about colorful jumping spiders' ability to jump, along with other stories about birds and insects.
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Learn why decorator crabs cover themselves in ocean scraps and about a dolphin who learns to swim with an artificial tail, along with other stories about aquatic animals.
- Auteur:Abbott, JacobSommaire:
Alexander the Great is a towering figure in ancient history because of his legendary conquests throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. He was born in 356 BC to the noble family of Macedon. As such, he was afforded with great luxuries...
- Auteur:Roker, AlSommaire:
Dive deep into the world of weather with meteorologist, Al Roker. Listeners will learn about the conditions and elements that generate rare weather occurrences like spider lightning, derechos, and fogsicles.