April Pulley Sayre

These rain forest dwellers are loud and sloppy. This playful poem brings howler monkeys to life in all their growly, barking glory. Extra facts within the text give readers the lowdown on these loudmouths.

From before the time she hatches until she returns to the same beach to lay eggs of her own, a sea turtle is helped to escape from danger many times by different human hands.

A spadefoot toad waits under the sand for the rain, hears the sounds of other desert animals, and eventually mates and spawns other toads.

Presents a rhyme and information about a variety of insects. Teaches kids the names of insects through rhyming text that begs to be read or shouted out loud, and a four-page glossary gives details about each bug featured. Brush-footed butterfly, Leaf-footed bug, Bird Dropping caterpillar, Slug, Slug, Slug! Here's the wild and rollicking follow-up to the bestselling trout, trout, trout! that everybody's been waiting for! This time, insects take center...

Follows a bear from the time she emerges from her den in April after four months without food, through months of eating fish, ants, and huckleberries, to midwinter when the arrival of two cubs interrupts her long winter's rest. Includes facts about brown (grizzly) bears of the Yellowstone National Park/Glacier National Park region.

In rhyming text reminiscent of the traditional song, "If you're happy and you know it," presents various animals that are hoppy, sloppy, growly, flappy, or slimy, scaly and mean.

Describes how different animals, such as elephants, birds, horses, and fish, keep themselves clean.

"A photographic non-fiction picture book about the wonder of snowfall and the winter water cycle"--

"Simple text and photographs explore the science behind the transformation that trees undergo in the fall."--