Up & Down
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Behold the Beautiful Dung Beetle
School Library Journal Review Gr 1-4-While transforming animals' waste products into life-giving material, dung beetles perform a vital cleaning service to the environment. This overview of the three types of dung beetles sometimes uses fanciful language, e.g., the "dung-pat pie fresh from the oven," but rather than distract, it lightens the topic. Often arriving within […]
No Monkeys, No Chocolate
Most kids love chocolate, but few of them know that its main ingredient, the cocoa bean, comes from a tree that grows in tropical rain forests. Dual-layer text describes the life cycle of the tree, emphasizing its botanical structures and highlighting the interdependence of the plant and animals such as the pollen-sucking midge, brain-eating coffin […]
Too Hot? Too Cold?
Kirkus Reviews: A fascinating and thorough look at how both animals and humans regulate their body temperatures. Beginning with the difference between warmblooded and coldblooded species (the terms endothermic and ectothermic are introduced but not used), Arnold devotes spreads to such topics as muscle movements, sweating, the shrinking and expanding of blood vessels in the […]
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts
Kirkus Reviews: Bayrock's love of "way cool science" bubbles over in this surprisingly substantial book. How do animals use bubbles? For sailing, running, breathing, nesting-even playing (dolphins seem to blow bubbles just for fun). Sixteen double-page spreads cover 16 wholly different ways that fish, insects, amphibians and mammals use bubbles. Did you know that one […]
Candy Bomber : the Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
From the Publisher: World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen wanted to bring some happiness to the children of the city? but what could one man in one plane do?