This educational series offers young readers a fascinating look into the natural world at a miniature scale. Each installment focuses on a single small square of land, revealing its rich ecosystem. Children learn about the plants, insects, and other creatures that inhabit these hidden worlds. It's a wonderful way to foster curiosity and a love for nature.
Covers giant cats and skittish bats, squawking parrots and upside-down sloths. This title covers what from earth floor to the top of the tree canopy. It contains drawings, step-by-step experiments, fun activities, and facts abound in the ecosystem.
It’s a land of riddles, where a winter night can last for weeks and where the ground is full of water though it rarely rains or snows. Bears, hares, wolves, and foxes roam the ice-crusted earth, as flowers follow the sun as it moves across the sky. Young readers may never come to the Arctic tundra, but now it can come to them—in a book chock full of fun-to-do experiments and activities for children ages 6 and up that help them to solve some of the mysteries of this strange and forbidding world. Arctic Tundra includes a picture field guide, a glossary-index, and a resource list.
The African grasslands stretch across the continent below the Sahara. In a swuare of land about the size of a living room, children will see animals they might have encountered only at the zoo. . .discover the rewards and dangers of their natural home. . .and observe how these creatures live with each other in a changing, endangered environment. It's an exciting journey of discovery, coming to you from the One Small Square series of interactive science and nature books. . .where the next stop could be as near as your backyard or as far as half a world away.