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Whose bones?
by Chihiro Takeuchi
Can you guess the animal by looking at its bones? Chihiro Takeuchi creates another masterpiece in this clever, fun introduction to vertebrate animals. This interactive guessing game increases in complexity and shows readers how interesting science can be.
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Whose dinosaur bones?
by Chihiro Takeuchi
Chihiro Takeuchi creates another masterpiece with her papercut artwork. This creative and interactive picture book asks readers to identify dinosaurs, based on their footprints, choice of food and bone structure.
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Can a driverless car get lost? and other questions about transport
by Clive Gifford and Matt Lilly
Why do your ears pop when you're flying? Are crash test dummies dumb? And just WHAT is a crumple zone? Find out the answers to these questions and much more in this book! With an engaging question and answer format, this series draws young readers into the fascinating world of technology.
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Archaeologist on a dig
by Sue Fliess and Mia Powell
Sam is an archaeologist. He and his team find and study ancient objects to learn more about the people who made and used them long ago. On this exciting dig, they carefully remove dirt layer by layer and use dating techniques in the lab to calculate the age of the artefacts they find.
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10 cats
by Emily Gravett
Follow the lives of ten kittens as they playfully pounce, bat, and swat while their mother sleeps. Buckets of paint quickly turn the kittens -- and their sleeping mother -- into brilliant works of art. When mama cat wakes up, playtime turns into bath time.
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10 dogs
by Emily Gravett
Ten gorgeous dogs chase, hide and play with ten juicy sausages! Bursting with energy and fun, children will love to count the dogs and the sausages, as well as looking out for all the funny details on each page. The book explores numbers one going up to ten, and ten going down to zero, touching on several simple concepts like half, all, more, less along the way.
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How slippery is a banana peel?
by Rebecca Donnelly and Misa Saburi
Volcanoes roar, but banana peels race. Rockets soar, Like bananas through space. A group of kid-experimenters at a science fair explore the slipperiness of banana peels -- a perfect introduction to scientific concepts! It's funny and STEM-inspired, with back matter on friction and a kitchen science experiment. These playful and mischievous banana peels will capture the imagination of readers.
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Our shed : a father-daughter building story
by Robert Broder and Carrie O'Neill
A sweet, nostalgic father-daughter story, Our Shed celebrates DIY families as well as the unique creativity and spontaneity of each individual child. This lovely story is about a father teaching his daughter how to build a backyard shed for storing the necessities of family life--a lawn mower, sprinkler, sleds, kid toys. For each practical element the dad brings to the project, his daughter adds her own imaginative creative spin. In the end, they are both happy with their collaboration. And, just as dad passes building skills on to his daughter, so does his daughter eventually pass those skills on to her own son when they fix up the peeling shed at the end of the story. Kids love tools, building things, and spending time with parents. This story hits all those points with love and humour.
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Solar story: how one community lives alongside the world's biggest solar plant
by Allan Drummond
This book tells the story of the largest concentrated solar plant in the world, the Noor solar power plant in Morocco's Sahara desert, by relating it to the everday life of a schoolgirl in a small community next to the plant. As we see on a class field trip, the plant is not only bringing reliable power to the village and far beyond, but it is also providing jobs, changing lives, and upending the old ways of doing things -- starting within the girl's own family. Blending watercolor spreads, cartoon-style narration, sidebars, and an afterword, the author showcases another community going green in amazing ways.
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Invented by animals : meet the creatures who inspired our everyday technology
by Christiane Dorion and Gosia Herba
Often human scientists try and solve a problem or invent a new tool and they realise that animals have already invented it for them. In this book you will meet the animal inventors who have shared their super inventing powers to make amazing things for humans. We have invented ways of solving problems, making unbelievable materials, ways of getting around and working out how to survive on our own for millions of years. Sometimes when a human inventor gets stuck, they come to the animal kingdom to see if we can help them out. In this book you will meet the creme de la creme of animal innovators who have created or are in the process of inventing things that people use every day. Meet the shark who invented a pair of swimming shorts so fast, they were banned from the Olympic games. And meet the snail who has invented a house that stays cool inside even in the desert.
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A climate in chaos
by Neal Layton
You've probably heard about climate change. At least I hope you have - because it's REALLY IMPORTANT. It affects all of us living on Planet Earth right now, and everyone and everything that will live on our planet in the future. Our world is warming up, and it's a big problem. Award-winning author-illustrator Neal Layton is here to explain what climate change is, what's causing it and why it's dangerous for animals and humans alike. But he's also FULL of ideas for how you can help! From eating lots more veggies to walking and cycling and thinking carefully about what we need to buy, A Climate in Chaos will get young readers excited about how they can make a difference to keep Planet Earth happy.
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Hello, Opportunity : the story of our friend on Mars
by Shaelyn McDaniel and Cornelia Li
Humans wanted to soar through the sky, and we did. We wanted to go to the moon, and we did. Then we set our sights on a little red planet, so far out we couldn't go ourselves. Instead, we sent a friend. We named her Opportunity because it means "a good chance" and feels like hope. With nine eyes, three ears, one arm, and six wheels, Oppy explored the mysterious terrain of Mars, gathering samples, snapping photos, and discovering vast craters. Everywhere held new and exciting surprises! Until one day, a storm came, and it was time to say goodbye for now. We still hope Oppy may wake up someday. Kids will be amazed by Opportunity's groundbreaking Mars mission as they see the red planet through her eyes, and the eyes of the scientists who loved her.
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Investigating solids
by Jacqui Bailey and Ed Myer
What are solids? How are they different from liquids and gases? How can they be changed? Find out for yourself in this book.
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Meet the weather
by Caryl Hart and Bethan Woollvin
WHOOOOSH! We are off on an exciting adventure in our hot-air balloon to say hello to all the different kinds of weather that make up our world. Join in with the rhymes and get ready to meet everything from whooshing wind to bright rainbows and shimmering sunshine. Little ones will be swept away on an unforgettable journey in this striking, action-packed picture book.
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Dream big, little scientists
by Michelle Schaub and Alice Potter
Twelve kids. A dozen bedtimes. A lot of ways to love science! Each of these kids loves a different branch of science, and their bedroom is decorated to show it. What do you see that's related to geology? Or oceanography? Or physics? What's your favorite science? Or will you discover a new one?
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