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Tundra Food Chains

Bobbie Kalman, Kelley MacAulay (authors)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427198150

The tundra is one of the most extreme habitats on Earth, and yet hundreds of species of plants and animals thrive there. In Tundra Food Chains, fascinating photographs and clear text teach children about how the plants and animals of the tundra have adapted to survive, and the many ways they manage to find food in this stark habitat.

Food Chains and You

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427198136

Through many photographs and illustrations, Food Chains and You conveys how the transfer of energy takes place from the sun to various plants and animals, including people. It shows children how they, too, are part of food chains. The book also gives children tips on how to grow their own food-chain-friendly vegetable garden.

Forest Food Chains

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427198129

This informative book focuses on temperate forest food chains. It looks at the plants, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores of this habitat and how they get food energy during the various seasons of the year.

Wetland Food Chains

Kylie Burns, Bobbie Kalman (authors)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427164193

A wide variety of plants and animals live, visit, and feed in wetlands, but wetlands are fast disappearing. This informative book describes life in a specific wetlandthe marsh. Beautiful photographs, illustrations, and text explain which plants and animals live in this habitat and how they interact with one another. Young readers will learn about wetland herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores how wetland animals survive the changing seasons the importance of wetlands to migrating animals dangers to wetlands

Australian Outback Food Chains

Hadley Dyer, Bobbie Kalman (authors)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427164131

Children will be fascinated by the variety of plants and animals found in Australian Outback Food Chains. Through spectacular photographs, illustrations, and text, this book examines the Outback habitat and the adaptations that its resident wildlife have made over time to live in this harsh environment. Topics covered in this book include how plants make food dangers to Outback food chains herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores

How do animals communicate?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778790570

Animals have many ways of communicating! Birds sing and dance, monkeys and some other mammals have warning cries, and cats and other animals use scent to mark their territories. In How do animals communicate?, young readers will learn all of the fascinating ways that animals talk to each other!

Warm-blooded or cold-blooded?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778790341

This book makes a complicated subject easy to understand. Through captivating photographs, Bobbie Kalman shows how some animals regulate their body temperatures in different ways, such as by shivering or panting, flapping their wings, or swimming in different parts of oceans.

What is an Omnivore?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789277

Omnivores will never go hungry because they will eat almost anything. Also called opportunistic feeders, these animals eat both plant and animal foods. Children will love learning from this book filled with fabulous photos and fascinating text. Well-known omnivores include bears and raccoons. These animals raid garbage cans and campsites. Less well-known omnivores are many insects, birds, and people.

What is a Vertebrate?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789284

Animals with backbones are called vertebrates. This amazing book allows young readers to peek inside an animal and understand its body structure from the inside out. Detailed illustrations of each animal's skeleton help show how different kinds of vertebrates move.

What is a Carnivore?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789253

Carnivores are animals that eat other animals. This clearly written book uses detailed images to look at insect, fish, frog, reptile, arthropod, and mammal carnivores and how they hunt or find their food. It also explains terms such as predator and prey and introduces the basics of a food chain.

What is a Herbivore?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789260

Herbivores eat plants, but they don't eat the same kinds of plants or plant parts. This captivating book looks at animals that eat grass, leaves, flowers, cacti, fruit, pollen and nectar, and wood. Amazing photographs also feature animals, such as koalas and pandas which eat very specialized plant foods such as eucalyptus leaves and bamboo.

Animals without backbones

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778790327

Invertebrates do not have backbones or internal skeletons, but some have hard coverings. Invertebrates are weird and wonderful creatures that come in every shape and color imaginable! Children will love the exciting photos!

Animals: Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish, and Other Animals

Leslie Johnstone Shar Levine (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778791768

How in the world do you classify the more than one million species in the animal kingdom? This fact-packed book divides animals into the major phyla, classes, and critical features. Fascinating case histories examine the discovery of new mammal species, the need to conserve endangered species, and using natural predators to control populations and preserve species and their environments.