Nicola Davies
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to genetic code combines simple, engaging language and expressive, child-friendly illustrations to explain how biological life grows and changes and how DNA combines to make humans both unique and connected to all life on the planet.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Looks at creatures of varying sizes, describing the incredible feats they can and cannot do due to their size and special skills, including ants who can lift fifty times their weight and birds who can soar to incredible heights.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When his ambition to become a great hunter like his father is crushed by a lion attack that causes him to lose an arm, young Pedru is overcome by a desire to kill the lion that mauled him but questions his resolve when an opportunity arises.
10) Just ducks!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
On her way to school, a young girl spots mallard ducks in the river and enthusiastically describes their appearance, habits, and behavior. Interspersed throughout the pages are facts about ducks.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of...
15) Ride the wind
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from his mother's death and against his father's wishes, Javier secretly rescues and cares for an albatross who needs to find her way home, in this beautiful story of a father and a son, of grief and reconnection.