Alimentos Blancos / White Foods

This book introduces the reader to the nighttime world of the raccoon, including its habitat, activities, diet, and the unique things that it does.

Describes the frogs, toads, and salamanders of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, looking particularly at the wide variety of adaptations found in the few species that dwell there.

¿Qué cosas suceden en esta biblioteca maravillosa? ¡Un zorro se olvida de cazar ratones! ¡Un ratón aprende a hacer trucos de magia! ¡Una gallina le lee cuentos a un zorro! Un libro conmovedor para darnos nuevas ideas. . . What goes on in this marvelous library? A fox forgets to hunt rats! A rat learns to do magic tricks! A hen reads stories to a fox! This is a moving book that offers plenty of new ideas.

Through bright images, charts and graphs, and informational text, this Spanish-translated nonfiction title provides readers with enlightening facts about what it takes to work in this exciting and unique profession. Featuring a glossary of terms, an index, a list of helpful websites, and an interview with a real-life deep-sea fisher, children will be engaged from cover to cover!

Five and counting! So far, astronomers have discovered five dwarf planets in our solar system. Pluto, which was once thought of as the ninth planet, is today classified as a dwarf planet. This book looks at the current dwarf planets, characteristics, size, and orbital patterns, as well as the three rules scientists follow to characterize these tiny, round space objects. Every day new discoveries are being made. Who knows how many dwarf planets we will find in the future! This book will allow students to understand that patterns in the natural world can be observed, used to describe phenomena, ...