Photographs and text depict different species of penguins in their natural surroundings and introduce the behavior and life cycles of these flightless sea birds.

Penguins (Nature's Way)

Children's Books

Coldrey, Jennifer

OXFORD SCIENTIFIC FILMS

Literature & Fiction

Dutton Childrens Books

Everyone can explore a pond. Just a net, a few jars and a hand-lens, and you can discover a world teaming with every kind of life. It is a self-contained habitat, and follows a surprisingly uniform pattern all over the globe. This quite remarkable book introduces the pond and its inhabitants in over 400 superb color photographs, accompanied by an authoritative text. The photographs were taken by Oxford Scientific Films, and reveal an extraordinary variety in the intricate lives of the pond's plants and insects, fish, snails, and amphibians, and among the birds and mammals at its edges. They show in stunning detail how a water spider traps air bubbles in its web to form a diving bell, how a mosquito emerges from its pupa, and many other stories on and in the water, arranged in sequence from the simplest creatures to the most sophisticated. Representative types of all the important forms of temperate pond life are included. Text and captions describe the natural history of the pond's organisms and, together with the illustrations, allow identification to family or genus. There is an introduction to the ecology of ponds in general, lists of taxonomic orders, and a color key to all the plants and creatures featured, as well as advice on how to collect and study pond life. All of the authors are associated with Oxford Scientific Films, Ltd., a company which has become world-famous for its outstanding work in natural history photography and films. Gerald Thompson, who spent his early years in the concrete jungle of inner Glasgow, founded the company and was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of Zoology. Jennifer Coldrey is a stills manager and has written a number of natural history books for children. George Bernard is stills photographer and one of the leaders in this field.

The Pond

Arts & Photography

Thompson, Gerald

Bernard, George

Photography & Video

Mit Pr

Living Together (Nature in Action)

Bailey, Jill.

Purnell

Examines, in text and photographs, the physical characteristics and life cycles of the jellyfishes and related sea creatures.

Jellyfish and Other Sea Creatures

Putnam Pub. Group

Part of a series, this book on the butterfly in the garden is intended as a possible basis for upper primary school projects. Other books in the series cover a range of topics including predators, parasites, the effects of toxic sprays and the garden food web of which butterflies are a small part.

Animal Habitats: the Butterfly in the Garden (Animal Habitats)

Whalley, Paul

Whalley, Mary

Egmont Childrens Books

Dragonflies

Reed

An in-depth text, complemented by color photographs and illustrations, helps readers understand what gigantic elephants, tiny mice, flying bats, sea-dwelling dolphins, and other mammals have in common, and what makes them different from animals of other classes.

What Is a Mammal?

Snedden, Robert

Animals

Sierra Club Juveniles

Full-color photographs, illustrations, and a straightforward text help explain what crested newts, legless caecilians, giant cane toads, and other amphibians have in common, and what makes them different from animals of other classes.

What Is an Amphibian?

What is a Reptile?

A straightforward text, detailed drawings, and full-color photographs present information on the class of animals that includes creatures ranging from chameleons to crocodiles.

What Is a Reptile?

The Hummingbird in the Flowers (Animal Habitats)

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Chrysalis Books

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