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Shows how children on a tiny Icelandic island work to rescue puffin offspring by helping them take their first flight

A photo essay describing the physical characteristics, natural habitat, and behavior of the flamingos of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles.

The women of one village in Iceland decide to plant trees to stop the powerful winds that make it difficult even to go for a walk, but first they must find a ways to prevent sheep from eating all of their saplings, while encouraging chickens to fertilize them.

When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.

An hour-by-hour introduction to telling time follows the activities of a little boy's day from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night.

A tricycle relegated to the trash heap manages its own salvation.

Presents pairs of photographs depicting everyday sights that, when put together, take on a new and humorous meaning.

Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included.

Photographs of green peas, yellow corn, red potatoes, purple beans, and other fruits and vegetables illustrate the many colors of nature.

Live through a stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck that likes to eat alphabet soup. Follow Mr. Gilly around Trashy Town until his truck is full of glorious garbage. Big diesel engines threaten to run Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel out of business until h...

Shows how different combinations of pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters can buy varying amounts of jelly beans. Includes information on how jelly beans are made.

Presents lyrics to the songs in the record album by Raffi, "Everything Grows."

Text and photos present baby zoo animals, with maps showing where each animal comes from.

Photographs illustrate the concept of pairs through such examples as two hands, two skates, and two twins.

Drífa has the task of hatching and raising over two hundred peeping wild eider ducklings, to reestablish a colony of common eiders off the coast of Iceland.

A contemporary interpretation of the well-known nineteenth-century nursery rhyme about the school-going lamb, accompanied by color photographs, a sample exercise from McGuffey's reader, and a note on the history of the author and her famous rhyme.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the timid gentoo penguin.

Photographs of various parts of a fire engine depict different geometrical shapes.

A study of weather patterns and clouds that occur in the Earth's temperate zones.

A counting book with photographs of wildflowers illustrating the numbers one through twenty.