Resources

	Title	Author
	Stellaluna After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.	Janell Cannon
	Leaping Grasshopper Introduces the physical characteristics and behavior of grasshoppers.	Christine Zuchora Walske
	Bug Girl When Charlie, having used his Amazing Bug-A-View to transform himself once more into a bug, almost gets pinned to a bug board, his friend Suzanne turns herself into an ant and comes to his rescue.	Carol Sonenklar
	If You Hop Like a Frog Introduces the concept of ratio by comparing what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals.	David M. Schwartz
	The Most Beautiful Roof in the World Describes the work of Meg Lowman in the rainforest canopy, an area unexplored until the last ten years and home to previously unknown species of plants and animals.	Kathryn Lasky
	Tall Tails: Wignin' It with the Wright Brothers In this humorous, inventive book, readers hear the story of the Wright brothers' first flight from the perspective of their (fictional) dog. Wilbur and Orville Wright's pet, Angus, is one of the smallest pooches in Dayton, Ohio. He may be a little dog, but Angus is about to play a big role in history.	Dona Smith
	Bug Off! Presents vocabulary words relating to insects, including bees, moths, and ants.	Cathi Hepworth
	One Small Square Backyard Explains how to observe and explore plants, animals, and their interactions in your own backyard.	Donald M Silver
	Women of our Time: Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology A biography of the scientist and writer whose book "Silent Spring" warned of the dangers of pesticides and launched a popular movement to control their use.	Kathleen V. Kudlinski
	Listening to Crickets: A Story about Rachel Carson Examines the life of the marine biologist and science writer whose book "Silent Spring" changed the way we look at pesticides.	Candice F. Ranson
	Jim and the Beanstalk Jim climbs the beanstalk and discovers a toothless old giant who can no longer eat little boys.	Raymond Briggs
	Hershey's Weights and Measures Introduces various measures of weight, size, and volume using Hershey's brand candies and other products.	Jerry Pallotta
	The Greedy Triangle Dissatisfied with its shape, a triangle keeps asking the local shapeshifter to add more lines and angles until it doesn't know which side is up.	Marilyn Burns
	Spaghetti & Meatballs for All The seating for a family reunion gets complicated as people rearrange the tables and chairs to seat additional guests.	Marilyn Burns
	Math Curse When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.	Jon Scieszka
	How Do Flies Walk Upside Down? A series of questions and answers provides information about the physical characteristics, senses, eating habits, life cycles, and behavior of different insects.	Melvin & Gilda Berger
	Chirping Crickets: Stage 2 Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of crickets while giving particular emphasis to how they chirp.	Melvin & Gilda Berger
	Animals Should Definetely Not Wear Clothing Pictures of animals wearing clothes show why this would be a ridiculous custom for them to adopt.	Judi Barrett
	Cricketology Provides instructions for finding, collecting, and keeping crickets and suggests how to delve into the secret lives of these chirping neighbors.	Michael Elsohn Ross
	Esio Trot Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger.	Roald Dahl
	Did Dinosaurs Live in Your Backyard? Questions such as "Which was the first dinosaur?" and "What happened to the dinosaurs?" set up the answers in this volume about the heaviest, tallest, meanest, hungriest, and smallest dinosaurs.	Melvin & Gilda Berger
	How Big is a Foot? Thrown in jail because the bed he made for the Queen is too small, an apprentice comes up with a more accurate way of measuring size.	Rolf Myller
	How Tall, How Short, How Faraway? Introduces several measuring systems such as the Egyptian system, the inch-pound system, and the metric system.	David A. Adler
	Counting on Frank A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.	Rod Clement
	How Do Bats See in the Dark? In this wonderful introduction to nocturnal animals, kids will learn hundreds of facts about creatures of the night.	Melvin & Gilda Berger

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