The story of an unheralded member of the Corps of Discovery -- Seaman, a 150-pound Newfoundland dog, who played a key role in the expedition's success.

Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West With Lewis & Clark

Children's Books

Gail Langer Karwoski

Animals

Demco Media

Surviving Jamestown : The Adventures of Young Sam Collier

Bt Bound

This soothing bedtime story explains how ten different marine mammals animals that live in water but breathe air sleep in the ocean. Based on up-to-date scientific research, the brief portraits are explained in simple, poetic language. Water Beds invites children to drift into sleep on gentle waves of imagination. The For Creative Minds educational section includes fun facts about marine mammal adaptations, and a Design Your Own Marine Mammal craft. This nonfiction picture book with a cuddle factor includes a 5-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 31-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Water Beds is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. Awards: Teacher's Choice Award 2007 ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist '05 SIBA Book Award Short List Also available in Spanish paperback: Camas de agua: durmiendo en el océano

Water Beds: Sleeping In The Ocean (Arbordale Collection)

Connie McLennan (Illustrator)

Arbordale Publishing

When Julie finds a shiny quartz crystal, her dad shows her how to dig for minerals--like a "rockhound." Combining clever wordplay with earth science, young readers learn about Earth's most abundant mineral `treasure." The "For Creative Minds" section extends the learning with quartz and mineral fun facts and easy science activities. Ages 5-9.

Julie the Rockhound (Arbordale Collection)

Literature & Fiction

River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers (Arbordale Collection)

This sequel to the award-winning Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (2007 Teacher s Choice &amp; 2005 Mom s Choice) takes readers on an around-the-world boat ride to learn how mammals sleep in or around ten major rivers of the world on all continents except Antarctica. Row down the Mississippi and watch two river otters slip into a hollow tree or look to the bank of the Brisbane River as a platypus pops into a hole and disappears into a narrow tunnel. Told in a soothing style, this book serves as a bedtime/naptime story for younger children or an animal geography book for older children. Adults may learn something, too! For Creative Minds Section Includes: Animal adaptation matching activity, Asian short-clawed otters, Beavers, Boto Dolphins, Capybaras, Hippos, Indus River Dolphins, Mink, Platypus, River otters, Water Voles, World Map, Where in the world?, Geography questions. Thanks to the following animal experts who verified the information in this book: River otters: Kelly Reno, River Otter Aquarist at the SC Aquarium, Rico Walder, Assistant Curator of Forests, Tennessee Aquarium Beavers: Kathryn Dudeck, Wildlife Director at Chattahoochee Nature Center Boto (Amazon) dolphins: Tamara Mcguire PhD, Amazon Researcher with Virtual Explorers Capybaras: Rachael Macy, Zoological Manager/Carnivores at the St. Louis Zoo Water Voles: Rob Strachan, of The Mammal Society (UK) Mink: George Shurvington, Wildlife Biologist, and Karen Armstrong, Conservation Education Consultant at the Missouri Department of Conservation Indus River Dolphins &amp; Boto Dolphins: Frazer McGilvray, Senior Manager at Conservation International Asian short-clawed otter: Lisa Smith, Curator of Large Mammals at Zoo Atlanta. Hippos: Loran Wlodarski, educator at SeaWorld Orlando Platypus: Geoff Williams, Australian Platypus Conservancy.

When a young girl finds a sparkly rock buried in the dirt and discovers that it cleans to a beautiful quartz crystal, she is fascinated and becomes Julie the Rockhound. Join Julie as her dad shows her how to dig for minerals and explains the wonders of crystal formation. Combining clever wordplay with earth science, young readers learn about Earth s most abundant mineral treasure.

Camas de agua: durmiendo en el océano [Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean] (Spanish Edition) (Arbordale Collection)

This soothing bedtime story explains how ten different marine mammals animals that live in water but breathe air sleep in the ocean. Based on up-to-date scientific research, the brief portraits are explained in simple, poetic language. Water Beds invites children to drift into sleep on gentle waves of imagination. The For Creative Minds educational section includes fun facts about marine mammal adaptations, and a Design Your Own Marine Mammal craft. This nonfiction picture book with a cuddle factor includes a 5-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 31-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Water Beds is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. Awards: Teacher's Choice Award 2007 ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist '05 SIBA Book Award Short List Also available Spanish paperback: Camas de agua: durmiendo en el océano

Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (Arbordale Collection)

When Julie finds a shiny quartz crystal, her dad shows her how to dig for minerals like a rockhound. Combining clever wordplay with earth science, young readers learn about Earth s most abundant mineral treasure. The For Creative Minds section extends the learning with quartz and mineral fun facts and easy science activities.

Julie the Rockhound

Sylvan Dell Publishing

This sequel to the award-winning Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (2007 Teacher s Choice & 2005 Mom s Choice) takes readers on an around-the-world boat ride to learn how mammals sleep in or around ten major rivers of the world on all continents except Antarctica. Row down the Mississippi and watch two river otters slip into a hollow tree or look to the bank of the Brisbane River as a platypus pops into a hole and disappears into a narrow tunnel. Told in a soothing style, this book serves as a bedtime/naptime story for younger children or an animal geography book for older children. Adults may learn something, too! For Creative Minds Section Includes: Animal adaptation matching activity, Asian short-clawed otters, Beavers, Boto Dolphins, Capybaras, Hippos, Indus River Dolphins, Mink, Platypus, River otters, Water Voles, World Map, Where in the world?, Geography questions Thanks to the following animal experts who verified the information in this book: River otters: Kelly Reno, River Otter Aquarist at the SC Aquarium, Rico Walder, Assistant Curator of Forests, Tennessee Aquarium Beavers: Kathryn Dudeck, Wildlife Director at Chattahoochee Nature Center Boto (Amazon) dolphins: Tamara Mcguire PhD, Amazon Researcher with Virtual Explorers Capybaras: Rachael Macy, Zoological Manager/Carnivores at the St. Louis Zoo Water Voles: Rob Strachan, of The Mammal Society (UK) Mink: George Shurvington, Wildlife Biologist, and Karen Armstrong, Conservation Education Consultant at the Missouri Department of Conservation Indus River Dolphins & Boto Dolphins: Frazer McGilvray, Senior Manager at Conservation International Asian short-clawed otter: Lisa Smith, Curator of Large Mammals at Zoo Atlanta. Hippos: Loran Wlodarski, educator at SeaWorld Orlando Platypus: Geoff Williams, Australian Platypus Conservancy

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Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West With Lewis & Clark

Surviving Jamestown : The Adventures of Young Sam Collier

Water Beds: Sleeping In The Ocean (Arbordale Collection)

Julie the Rockhound (Arbordale Collection)

River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers (Arbordale Collection)

Julie the Rockhound (Arbordale Collection)

Camas de agua: durmiendo en el océano [Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean] (Spanish Edition) (Arbordale Collection)

Water Beds: Sleeping in the Ocean (Arbordale Collection)

Julie the Rockhound

River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers (Arbordale Collection)