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3) Time to eat
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Provides an introduction to what animals eat and how they collect, store, and digest their food.
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The exciting artistic presentation that worked so well in Actual Size (Houghton, 2004) is equally successful when applied to prehistoric creatures. Progressing chronologically from a dot-sized protozoan of 550 million years ago, Jenkins has chosen the animals and the portions of them to depict to great effect.
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Caldecott Honor–winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore one of the world's most notorious — and fearsome — animals. Learn what makes a shark a shark, what sharks like to eat, and how these predators of the deep have evolved. Ever wonder which shark is the smallest? Or the fastest? Even the most deadly? You'll find your answers in The Shark Book, with countless others.
8) Living color
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Presents four to ten animals for each of seven major colors and discusses how the animals' color can be beneficial for warning predators, signaling friends, attracting a mate, or hiding from enemies.
11) My first day
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"Explore some of the fascinating things that animals do on their first day" -- Cover.
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"The latest offering from the award-winning team of Robin Page and Steve Jenkins focuses on the most unique and exciting animal displays in the natural world, used by creatures to stand out. This eye-catching, high-interest material is ideal for nature lovers, Jenkins fans, and even the most reluctant readers."--
15) Time to sleep
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Who dozes standing on one leg without falling over, snores while flying, or snuggles together in a big sleepy pile? This book shows you how animals sleep.
17) Big & little
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Illustrates the concept of size by comparing different animals, from the smallest visible animals to the largest.
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Flies are fast! They can hover, walk upside down, and use their lightning-quick reflexes to escape predators. But rainbow trout, slender lorises, and assassin bugs can catch them. Chimney swifts can, too. How do such diverse creatures manage to capture the same prey? Similar in structure to What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?, this eye-popping picture book introduces readers to a menagerie of animals that approach the same challenges in very different...