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A day in the life of a Triceratops! Make reading in Spanish and English your superpower with DK&’s beautiful, leveled…
nonfiction.Use your bilingual reading superpowers to learn all about what happens to a Triceratops when he meets a fierce Tyrannosaurus - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress.Dinosaur&’s Day - El día de un dinosaurio is a beautifully designed reader all about a day in the life of a Triceratops - and its scary encounter with a deadly Tyrannosaurus!The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills in Spanish and English. Children will love to find out about the Triceratops, the Tyrannosaurus, and other dinosaurs.Get to know more than 100 of the world&’s favorite dinosaurs and other prehistoric life forms with this essential illustrated…
introduction.This must-have first book on dinosaurs and other ancient creatures is filled with beautiful illustrations and storybook text on every page, perfect for early readers who want to know more about the life that once roamed our planet. The Bedtime Book of Dinosaurs and other Prehistoric Life includes the earliest life that appeared in the ocean, to the giant dinosaurs, and the wonderfully weird mammals that followed them. Children aged 3-5 can discover a huge variety of organisms that are shown within the three chapters, which cover the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. With old favorites, such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, as well as new discoveries, including Yi and Changmiania, there is something for every young fan of the primeval world.Inside the pages of this exciting dinosaur book, you&’ll find:- An introduction to the essential information about each prehistoric species in a friendly, accessible way.- Beautiful and accurate illustrations combined with introductory reference text about a wide variety of dinosaurs and other ancient plants and animals.- Engaging text for young children that can be read aloud – perfect for parents, carers, and children to enjoy at bedtime. - A one-hit introduction to prehistoric life, featuring more than 100 animals - an essential addition to every 3–5 year old&’s library.This exciting dinosaur guide helps to develop an early understanding of the prehistoric world for little ones and clearly explains the key features of each animal or plant, as well as how to say their names. A timeless gift book, this is a must-have for parents, carers, and educators who want to introduce core dinosaur knowledge at a young age in a fun and engaging way.A fun, fact-filled dive into the world of dinosaurs for kids-packed full of brilliant images.All the basics of these amazing…
creatures are covered in this beautiful and informative book on dinosaurs. Anatomy, along with habitat and behavior, and lots of fascinating facts about dinosaurs that every child will just love reading about. See how they survived all over the world, and how these prehistoric creatures adapted to their ancient habitats. Alongside, in between, and on top of all that, Everything You Need to Know About Dinosaurs also provides ideas for things to make, games to play, quizzes, and amazing facts to share with friends. Every spread is self-contained to make this a dip-into book with a difference. From the very first page it combines little-known information with engaging text and innovative, high-quality design.It's everything you need to know, and everything you want to find out.Created in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and packed with fun facts on fossils, amphibians, sea creatures, woolly mammoths, Neanderthals,…
insects and more, Dinosaur! will intrigue readers and provide an experience that will redefine natural history for kids. The lost world of velociraptor, stegosaurus, allosaurus, and other prehistoric monsters come to life as never seen before in Dinosaur! Packed with photorealistic computer generated images, detailed cross-sections and cutaways revealing the inner workings of dinosaurs, simple annotations, and clear concise definitions explaining each dinosaur and prehistoric beast at a glance — Dinosaur! revives the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Eras and brings young readers into the action. Supports the Common Core State Standards.A Dinosaur's Day: Deinonychus Goes Hunting (A dinosaur's Day Ser.)
By Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia. 2023
Embark on a prehistoric journey with this board book of fun stories and incredible facts about dinosaurs.Introducing A Dinosaur&’s Day:…
Deinonychus Goes Hunting - a story time adventure that teaches kids exciting facts about dinosaurs. Go on an adventure with a young deinonychus as it searches for food, gets caught in a storm, and learns to climb trees with its big claws.Packed with beautiful pictures and compelling facts, this dinosaur book helps children aged 3-6 to learn about the deinonychus species through images, pronunciation guides, and amazing facts and figures. Little dinosaur lovers can join Deinonychus on a quest to find food and hunt down prey in the mighty Jurassic world.A Dinosaur&’s Day: Deinonychis Goes Hunting… Helps children learn about dinosaurs in this beautiful picture book format.Teaches readers dinosaur facts and behaviour in a very natural way.Includes a non-fiction section about the dinosaur species following the story.Features bright, colorful pages with an engaging narrative.Has clear and fun text to help children learn and engage easily.Teach children about different prehistoric species in this educational dinosaur book through a fun and engaging story and vibrant images. This fantastic dinosaur interactive book is perfect for pre-reading toddlers, and children just learning to read. Little ones can enjoy the spectacular scenery in the Jurassic world along the way, as Deinonychus climbs, feasts and flees. Complete the seriesThis delightful dinosaur book is part of the A Dinosaur&’s Day series of board books for babies and toddlers from DK Books and also includes A Dinosaur&’s Day: Diplodocus Finds Its Family.Travel back in time and meet the incredible creatures of the prehistoric world with this children's educational book about dinosaurs.Welcome…
to the world of dinosaurs! From the Stegosaurus to the Tyrannosaurus-rex, get ready to dig into the past and bring dinosaurs to life with this dino-mite encyclopedia for children!Inside the pages of this dinosaur book for children, you'll discover: - Full of modern, colorful and detailed illustrations with a distinct "gamer" style design. - Jam-packed with essential facts and figures on more than 200 different species. - Special features about dinosaur diet, habitat, communication and more. - Action-packed Battle Up! spreads show which dinosaurs would win in a fight. - Extra reference spreads are packed with information, teaching children about prehistoric plants, dinosaur diets, flying reptiles and much, much more.- Incredible double spread images of dinosaurs in situ are interspersed throughout the book.This superb fact-packed dinosaur reference book contains everything you've ever wanted to know about dinosaurs of every shape and size! Learn how to tell the difference between carnivores and herbivores or the Jurassic and Triassic periods. With details on dinosaur habitats, dinosaurs of the sea and sky, prehistoric beasts, and who would win in a battle, you will be able to answer any question on how the world was 250 million years ago.The chapters are divided chronologically and contain a list of more than 200 different species of dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. Each animal profile is packed with vital statistics, unique facts about dinosaurs, and a size chart comparing them to humans, so you will be able to see how you shape up to these Triassic titans. Perfect for dino-lovers age 6 and up, Dinosaur Ultimate Handbook will help cultivate the paleontologists of tomorrow!Big Book of Dinosaurs (DK Big Books)
By Dk. 2015
Get ready to roar with this updated edition of DK's beloved Big Book of Dinosaurs Dinosaurs fascinate young children, and…
this colorful catalog of those mysterious creatures from the past will keep even toddlers entertained for hours. Children will love spotting and learning to name all the different dinosaurs--from the fierce, meat-eating Tyrannosaurus and the long-necked, plant-eating Diplodocus to the armor-plated Stegosaurus and the tiny, hen-sized Compsognathus.A comprehensive pocket guide to dinosaurs and prehistoric animals and the world they inhabited millions of years ago. Packed with…
more than seven hundred full-color illustrations, this definitive pocket guide paints a vivid portrait of extraordinary dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, and the ecosystems they lived in millions of years ago. This guide features authoritative text, crystal-clear illustrations, and a straightforward approach to revealing the fascinating lives and habitats of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, marine reptiles, and prehistoric beasts. The introductory section explains classification systems, geological timelines, the evolution of the dinosaurs, and how fossils form and are discovered by paleontologists. For ease of reference, the main body of the book is divided into three sections: the Precambrian and Paleozoic eras, when animals first began evolving; the Mesozoic era, which saw the flourishing and eventual extinction of the dinosaurs; and the Cenozoic era, when giant mammals walked the Earth. Each section is broken down into its geological time periods, and, within these, the species are organized according to habitat--whether they lived on land, in the water, or in the air.There are detailed profiles of 200 dinosaurs and other ancestors of modern animals. Each entry combines a precise, jargon-free description with full-color illustrations, skeletons, and replica models, annotated to showcase the unique features of the species. Maps show where each animal's fossils have been found, and many profiles are supported by photographs to show actual excavation sites.Everyone loves dinosaurs! Make reading in English and Spanish your superpower with DK&’s beautiful, leveled bilingual nonfiction.Use your bilingual reading…
superpowers to learn all about dinosaurs - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Meet the Dinosaurs — Conoce los dinosaurios is a beautifully designed reader about everyone&’s favorite fascinating animals. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills in Spanish and English. Children will love to find out about the biggest, the noisiest, the fastest and the funniest dinosaurs, and impress their friends with fun-to-say dinosaur names.Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre dinosaurios, reptiles marinos y mamíferos del pasado se encuentra en esta increíble enciclopedia prehistórica…
para niños. Con más de 1000 imágenes y curiosidades fascinantes, El libro de los dinosaurios recopila para los lectores más jóvenes los detalles más increíbles sobre estos animales. Este entretenido libro en español para niños contiene un alto contenido en conocimiento que ha sido acumulado a lo largo de los años por múltiples investigaciones realizadas alrededor del mundo. Nos cuenta sobre antiguos y recientes descubrimientos prehistóricos importantes, tales como el increíble hallazgo de un dinosaurio de hace 110 millones de años llamado Nodosaurio, o los dinosaurios con plumas que han sido recientemente desenterrados en China. Contiene imágenes en color que muestran al detalle cómo eran los dinosaurios. Incluye fotografías de espectaculares huesos fosilizados y reconstrucciones digitales realistas, abordando todas las formas de vida existentes durante la Prehistoria.Viaje al pasado. Los dinosaurios en la Prehistoria.¿Somos conscientes de la asombrosa variedad de vida que existe en nuestro planeta? La variedad es tan rica que aún se descubren nuevos organismos. Los científicos han catalogado más de dos millones de especies, y es probable que haya más por descubrir. Pero estas son solo una pequeña parte de las que hubo en la Tierra en el pasado. Si retrocediéramos en el tiempo 100 millones de años, estaríamos rodeados por tantos animales y plantas diferentes como hoy, pero –a menos que hubiéramos leído este libro para niños en español antes – no reconoceríamos ninguno de ellos.Esta enciclopedia de dinosaurios muestra como estos increíbles animales fueron aniquilados en una catástrofe global hace 66 millones de años. Pero sus fósiles sobreviven, junto con otros que muestran, sin duda alguna, que muchos de sus parientes más pequeños y con plumas podían volar. Sumérgete en este libro infantil y descubre cuáles de ellos pudieron sobrevivir al desastre para surgir en la nueva era como pájaros. Aprecia cómo los fósiles no solo nos hablan de la vida en el pasado lejano, sino que también pueden revelar datos asombrosos sobre los animales que vemos cada día a nuestro alrededor.El libro de los dinosaurios muestra la evolución de los animales a lo largo de la historia en 6 magníficos capítulos: - Antes de los dinosaurios - La era de los dinosaurios - Dinosaurios voladores - Pterosaurios - El mundo marino - La llegada de los mamíferosEl libro de los dinosaurios es una enciclopedia infantil que forma parte de la colección de aprendizaje y desarrollo de la editorial DK, donde destacan grandes libros en español para niños y jóvenes.DK Adventures: A Big Dig Adventure! (DK Adventures)
By Catherine Chambers. 2015
What child wouldn't be fascinated with a book about dinosaurs AND the Wild West? Your child will learn about both…
through DK Adventures: Dinosaur Hunters, a book that teaches facts about dinosaur bones and the Wild West through story. DK Adventures books combine story and visual elements to appeal to both avid readers and visual learners. Kids might not even realize they're learning at all! In DK Adventures: Dinosaur Hunters, our time travelers find themselves caught up in the rivalry between dinosaur bone hunters Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope. They have to use critical thinking and historical knowledge to decide whether to interfere with scientific discovery or leave well enough alone. DK Adventures: Dinosaur Hunters is Wild West adventure of cowboys and Indians, steam trains — and dinosaurs! DK Adventures is a book series that reluctant readers can enjoy as much as bookworms do! This series combines captivating, fictional stories with nonfiction facts to encourage learning and engagement in your child. The stories keep children interested, and the facts teach critical skills and knowledge — the fiction and nonfiction elements work together to keep each child's interest high, to build knowledge, and to enrich the narrative reading experience with fascinating background information. These books are filled with information, but the stories make them incredibly readable. DK Adventures are available in a range of kid-friendly topics, including dinosaurs, cars, and the human body, and each book supports Common Core State Standards and literacy skills.Eyewitness Fossil (DK Eyewitness)
By Dk. 2023
A visual and informative guide to fossils, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitness Books format.Get up close…
and personal and be an eyewitness to our prehistoric world through fossilized shells, skulls, teeth, plants, and, of course, skeletons with DK Eyewitness Books: Fossil. Discover the most precious fossils in the world; see how fossils form; find out how early historians and scientists used fossils; and learn how you can become a paleontologist with the included fossil guide.DK Eyewitness Books: Fossil unlocks our prehistoric world.Series Overview: Each revised Eyewitness book retains the stunning artwork and photography from the groundbreaking original series, but the text has been reduced and reworked to speak more clearly to younger readers. Still on every colorful page: vibrant annotated photographs and the integrated text-and-pictures approach that makes Eyewitness a perennial favorite of parents, teachers, and school-age kids.La conquête du cheval: une histoire génétique (Sciences)
By Ludovic Orlando. 2023
Une histoire des chevaux et du long compagnonnage entre l'homme et cet animal qui lui a offert un moyen de…
parcourir le monde. Le paléogénéticien retrace cette aventure, vieille de 4.200 ans, depuis les steppes de l'ouest de la Russie et de l'Ukraine, montrant la grande diversité de populations de chevaux, leur évolution et leurs déplacements sur la planète au cours des siècles.Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives & Evolutionary History
By Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford. 2008
Two noted paleontologists present a detailed portrait of the family Canidae across 40 million years of evolution in this illustrated…
volume. After decades of research and analysis, paleontologists Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford established the modern framework for understanding the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their work with Mauricio Antón's reconstructions of both extinct and extant species, Wang and Tedford now present a nuanced and visually stunning portrait of the origin and evolution of canids. The fossil record of the Canidae, particularly those from their birthplace in North America, are the strongest of their kind among known groups of carnivorans. Such a wonderfully detailed evolutionary history makes the canid an ideal model organism for the mapping of predator behavior and morphological specializations. With its innovative illustrated approach to this important branch of animal and fossil study, Dogs provides an unprecedented reference for anyone interested in the evolution of these fascinating animals.“Sportswriter Sullivan takes readers on a propulsive ride in his tour-de-force debut. . . . Sullivan’s detailed account will intrigue…
anyone who cares about sports and the role it plays in social justice today.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"More than a basketball book, this helps explain race relations, celebrity power, and personal choice in a changed world." — Kirkus Reviews"A must-read for its in-depth look at the mental, economic, and political tribulations of NBA players." — Library Journal (starred review)"Only a brilliantly audacious book could begin to make sense of the weirdly brilliant audacity of the new Brooklyn Nets. One writer on Earth could have written this book this way — with the profundity of a sage baller and acuity of a seasoned journalist — and that writer is Matt Sullivan." — Kiese Laymon, New York Times best-selling author of Heavy“With Can't Knock The Hustle, Matt Sullivan correctly positions the basketball games we love as both a prism through which to understand our culture, and a battlefield on which to fight for the better angels of that culture. On the surface, it's a story about the unending march of 2020. But once you finish it, you understand that it's also an essential document about the decades that led us to this moment, and about the future decades yet unspooled." — Wright Thompson, ESPN senior writer and New York Times bestselling author of Pappyland and The Cost of These Dreams“In the dueling eras of unprecedented athlete empowerment and the coarse ugliness of 'shut up and dribble,' Matt Sullivan's Can't Knock the Hustle offers a can't-look-away sampling of not merely the NBA's most fascinating franchise, but a frozen period in time that will leave historians both horrified and riveted." — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Three-Ring Circus and Showtime “Matt Sullivan is one helluva social anthropologist, and as a result, his Can't Knock the Hustle amounts to way more than a journey with the Brooklyn Nets, or an examination of the modern-day athlete. This is an astute, ambitious book about the glory and torment of talent itself. Basketball? That's just the starting point, and what a trip Sullivan's remarkable odyssey turns out to be.” — James Andrew Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Those Guys Have All the Fun, Live From New York, and Powerhouse“Can't Knock the Hustle is a terrific book because it gives us something in woefully short supply: real journalism. Matt Sullivan has discovered the ground zero of a player revolution—and it's in Brooklyn. Is anybody ready for it?" — Howard Bryant, ESPN senior writer and author of Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field“The superstar-studded Brooklyn Nets are basketball's most captivating team, and Can't Knock the Hustle delivers a fascinating secret history of their journey to the pantheon of player activism and empowerment. With brilliant reporting and breakneck prose, this is our generation's Moneyball.” — Don Van Natta Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning ESPN investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of First Off the Tee and Wonder Girl“No narrative has captured the dynamics of the ‘player empowerment’ movement quite like Can’t Knock the Hustle. Sullivan has written about as revealing a basketball book as there's been in a long time: an insider’s account with an outsJames Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
By James Patterson. 2022
How did a kid whose dad lived in the poorhouse become the most successful storyteller in the world? This "fizzing,…
funny, often deeply moving" (Daily Mail) #1 New York Times bestselling memoir is &“damn near addictive. I loved it . . . that Patterson guy can write!&” (Ron Howard) On the morning he was born, he nearly died. His dad grew up in the Pogey– the Newburgh, New York, poorhouse. He worked at a mental hospital in Massachusetts, where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. While he toiled in advertising hell, James wrote the ad jingle line &“I&’m a Toys &‘R&’ Us Kid.&” He once watched James Baldwin and Norman Mailer square off to trade punches at a party. He&’s only been in love twice. Both times are amazing. Dolly Parton once sang &“Happy Birthday&” to James over the phone. She calls him J.J., for Jimmy James. How did a boy from small-town New York become the world&’s most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. As he says, &“I&’m still working on that one.&”Colours in the Sky: The History of Autair and Court Line Aviation
By Graham M. Simons. 2018
It's impossible to tell the story of Court Line without telling that of Autair, founded by helicopter pioneer William 'Bill'…
Armstrong. Autair itself was an offshoot of his global helicopter operation, but Bill also had his finger in many aviation 'pies' including a multitude of operations in Africa, where so many aircraft and airlines were created, bought and sold with such prolificacy that even he could not remember the names and how many there were! There is also the background to Court Line's shipping concerns and the Caribbean operations of the hotel chains and regional airline Leeward Islands Air Transport which Court owned for a while.Covered in detail is the introduction, demonstration and use of the Lockheed TriStar wide-bodied airliner, the first of the type used in the Inclusive Tour business.Court Line Aviation and Tom Gullick's Clarksons Holidays brought to the forefront the concept of value-for-money Inclusive Tour holidays following the 'vertical integration' business model whereby owning and controlling each step of the holiday allowed the company to make a small profit at every stage.The orange, pink, turquoise and yellow jets brought flashes of color to dreary British airports, and quickly streamed a multi-colored rainbow across European skies to Mediterranean destinations and even further afield. Truly they did indeed put colors in the Sky!Epilogue: A Memoir
By Anne Richardson Roiphe. 2008
Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it…
was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roiphe began to consider the previously unimagined possibility of a new man. Eloquent and astute, moving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of a new day-to-day routine, Epilogue takes us on her journey into the unknown world of life after love.The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
By Evan I. Schwartz. 2002
“…Fascinating… A riveting American classic of independent brilliance versus corporate arrogance. I found it more fun than fiction.” — James…
Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers“… The fascinating inside story of how this eccentric loner invented television and fought corporate America.” — Walter Isaacson, chariman, CNN“…Compelling…Strong, dramatic prose…” — Kirkus Reviews“…A lively and engaging account.” — Library Journal“[A] gripping and eminently readable saga of the birth of television and the death of the Edisonian myth.” — Darwin magazine