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Illustrator Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen and wife Robbyn team up again for another wildlife tale drawn from their encounters with the animal kingdom. Told in journal form and rendered in beautifully detailed artwork, the van Frankenhuyzens give a 'day in the life' view as the fox Samantha begins her journey from injured kit to independent adult living on her own. Always respecting the boundaries between the wild and the human ways of life and based...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Follow Central Park Zoo animals, including, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, along with the psychotic penguins, the monkeys, and the lemur leaders as they unexpectedly are now stranded in the middle of Africa. While Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are rather happy with their new environment, they quickly realize that it's not all that it seems. Meanwhile, the penguins attempt to repair the plane that they accidentally...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
For over a century, wolves were persecuted in the United States and nearly became extinct. Gradually reintroduced, they are thriving again in the West, much to the benefit of the ecosystem.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Druids are the most celebrated wolf pack in North America. For almost a decade, they have held the Lamar Valley in northern Yellowstone. The valley is prime winter grazing for thousands of elk and thus the most coveted wolf country in all the Park. After reaching the astonishing number of 37 members, the largest wolf pack on record finds itself in trouble as the Druids begin to decline. Their leaders are failing with age and new packs are crossing...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1240L
Physical Desc
xxiv, 392 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
At a time when we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, renowned scientist Jane Goodall brings us inspiring news about the future of the animal kingdom. With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall--along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard--shares fascinating survival stories about the American crocodile, the California condor, the black-footed ferret...
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Oslo, Norway: residents create a honeybee highway that stretches from one side of the city to the other, offering flowerpots, resting spotsm bee boxes, and beehives -- and even water fountains -- every eight hundred feet. in the Bronx, New York: a community rallies to clean their river and cheers at the return of the long-lost beaver population. In Busselton, Australia: people make a rope bridge that swings high above speeding cars, creating...
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after a seventy-year absence. All these years later, we can clearly see the cascading effects this has had on the park's ecosystem. This is a spectacular example of a trophic cascade, the term used when an important member of an ecosystem goes missing and many other living things are indirectly affected, causing a chain reaction of events. In the case of the reintroduced wolves...
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Publisher
Little bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
1 unnumbered volume : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heart-warming and true story about an orphaned orca named Springer who was found swimming alone in the Puget Sound in 2002. The book takes us on Springer's journey from being near starvation to rescued to then the challenges of her release, eventual adoption, and the start of her own family."--
17) Fourteen wolves
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
48 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
In fairy tales, the wolf's cry makes people shudder. They've been hunted, captured. But the wolf carries a wild magic - a magic that once restored a barren land. When wolves disappeared from Yellowstone Park in the 1930s, the ecosystem started to collapse. Enormous herds of elk swarmed the plains, bears starved, rabbit families shrunk and birds flew away to new homes. Plants vanished, trees withered and rivers meandered. Until in 1995, wolves returned...