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An Egg Is Quiet
by Dianna Hutts Aston, Sylvia Long
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder. The evocative text is sure to... (more)
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Fish Is Fish
by Leo Lionni
Illus. in full color. A modern fable of a minnow who wants to follow his tadpole friend--who becomes a frog--onto land.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
Hungry caterpillar eats stuffuseless book recommended age 80-Yoda
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From Seed to Pumpkin
by Wendy Pfeffer
Pumpkins can be baked in a pie. Pumpkins can be carved into jack-o'-lanterns. Pumpkin seeds can be roasted for a healthy snack. But how does a tiny seed turn into a big pumpkin? Read and find out what a pumpkin seed needs to help it grow!
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Trout Are Made of Trees
by April Pulley Sayre
How can a leaf become a fish? Join two young children and their dads to find out, as they observe life in and around a stream. Energetic collage art and simple, lyrical text depict the ways plants and animals are connected in the food web. Back matter provides information about the trout life cycle as well as conservation efforts that kids can do themselves. A Junior Library Guild selection.
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Pumpkin Pumpkin
by Jeanne Titherington
Jamie plants a pumpkin seed in the spring and, after watching it grow all summer, carves a face in it for Halloween! But best of all, he saves some seeds that he will plant again next spring. "Truly a book for all seasons."--Horn Book.
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From Caterpillar to Butterfly
by Deborah Heiligman, Bari Weissman
A caterpillar comes to school in a jar. The class watches the caterpillar each day as it grows and changes. Soon, it disappears into a hard shell called a chrysalis. Then the chrysalis breaks, and a beautiful butterfly flies out of the jar! This is a perfect beginner's guide to the mystery of metamorphosis. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1997 (NSTA/CBC)
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From Tadpole to Frog
by Wendy Pfeffer
Wendy Pfeffer describes the amazing metamorphosis from tiny, jellylike egg, to little fishy tadpole, to great big bullfrog. Holly Keller has created the archetypal frog pond and we see it through the seasons as the tadpoles grow legs and lungs and eventually hop onto land: bullfrogs at last. "Well-designed ink drawings washed with soft-toned watercolors stretch across the double-page spreads, showing the action... (more)
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The Cod's Tale
by Mark Kurlansky
"Excellent ink drawings, brightened with colorful washes, illustrate incidents from the text with clarity, a flair for the dramatic, and a sense of humor." ( Booklist , starred review) "Kurlansky is a masterful storyteller. . . . Schindler's pictures, from serious to silly, add to the pleasure . . . . Readers of this title will never again look at fish and chips in quite the same way." ( Kirkus Reviews ) ... (more)
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The Journal Keeper
by Phyllis Theroux
Writing a journal is an intensely personal act, an exercise in which one’s most private thoughts and painful experiences can be set forth through an act of deliberate self-examination. So when a writer of Theroux’s stature chooses to share such introspective feelings with the world, readers are afforded an unparalleled opportunity to observe how such crystalline powers of observation are developed and nurtured.... (more)
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Chick Life Cycle (Science Vocabulary Readers)
by Elizabeth Bennett
Can you guess what is hatching from this egg? It's a chick! You will learn all about a chick's life cycle in this book.
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The Spider and the Fly
by Tony DiTerlizzi, Mary Botham Howitt
"'Will you walk into my parlor,' said the Spider to the Fly..." is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. But do you have any idea how the age-old tale of the Spider and the Fly ends? Join celebrated artist Tony DiTerlizzi as he -- drawing inspiration from one of his loves, the classic Hollywood horror movies of the 1920s and 1930s -- shines a cinematic spotlight on... (more)
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Growing Vegetable Soup (Hbj Big Books)
by Lois Ehlert
“A fresh presentation of the gardening cycle with a joyful conclusion, and the added attraction of an easy and tasty recipe for vegetable soup on the flyleaf.”--School Library Journal
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A Nest Full of Eggs
by Priscilla Belz Jenkins
This first look at robins follows a full year of growth and change: how the birds develop inside their egg during the spring, how they mature from chicks into fledglings in the summer, how they learn to fly in the fall, and how they leave for warmer climes in winter—only to return when spring comes around again. 1995 Best Children’s Science Books (BL)
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Into the Sea
by Brenda Z. Guiberson
A beautiful, compelling book about the fragile life cycle of the endangered sea turtle.
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Kitten (Watch Me Grow)
by Jane Burton, Angela Royston, Lisa Magloff
A photographic paperback series designed to introduce the fascinating world of animals and how they develop. In this informative and highly visual series, appealing step-by-step photography allows children to see a butterfly emerge from its cocoon and spread its wings, or see what happens when an egg hatches and a chick emerges. Each book comes with a sticker sheet packed with cute images of the animals featured... (more)
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Super Spiders (Science Vocabulary Readers)
by Jason Blake
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Butterfly House
by Eve Bunting
With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free. And when the girl grows old, the butterflies come back to return her kindness. Full color.
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Monarch Butterfly (Life Cycles)
by David M. Schwartz
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Where Do Frogs Come From? (Green Light Readers Level 2)
by Alex Vern
This nonfiction reader follows the ever-changing life of a frog as it grows from an egg to a tadpole to a full-grown frog!

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