Describes the eight different kinds of bears that live around the world, including their physical characteristics, their food and how they find it, their reproductive behavior, and the threats from human beings to their survival.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of the only large wild cat, other than the American cougar, that is not spotted or striped.

Describes in detail the physical characteristics, behavior, and migration and life cycle of various kinds of whales, among the largest creatures ever known to have lived on Earth, and discusses the history of human interaction with these animals.

Sam's araid of heights, but the experience of the day is hang gliding!

Presents simple phrases adapted from the fairy tale The three little pigs. Includes teaching notes and photocopiable flashcards of key letters of the alphabet.

Do you go to the library? What do you do there? Which books do you choose? Do you take some books home? What do you like to read about?

Two full-length graphic novels. After a decade spent chronicling the going-on in the sleepy Central American hamlet of Palomar, Glibert Hernandez expanded his world radically with these two epic stories. The dizzyingly dense period piece Poison River traces the pre-Palomar childhood of Luba, her teenage marriage to the gangster Peter Rio, the secrets behind her mysterious mother -- all the way to her arrival in Palomar. And Love and Rockets X depicts...