Discusses the native Americans known as the Anasazi, who migrated to southwestern Colorado in the first century A.D. and mysteriously disappeared in 1300 A.D. after constructing extensive dwellings in the cliffs of the steep canyon walls.

An introduction to the science that explains how birds fly.

Tap-tap, tap-tap! A woodpecker welcomes morning to the Sonoran Desert, and with it, award-winning author/illustrator Caroline Arnold starts the clock ticking on one 24-hour cycle of animal activity in the desert habitat. Her cut-paper illustrations and story-like narrative entertains kids and as it informs them about desert life.

Presents the characteristics and habits of rhinoceroses living in the wild and of a family living at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland.

Kindergartners learn about the life cycle of a chicken, incubating eggs, watching them hatch and raising them until they are old enough to go to the chicken coop.

Describes the characteristics and behavior of llamas and their usefulness to man, discusses other members of the lamoid family, and reports on the growing number of llamas now being bred in the United States.

One hundred million years ago, the skies were filled with enormous flying reptiles. With wings spans up to nearly forty feet, pterosaurs were the dominant life form on earth. The relationship of these giants of the air to dinosaurs and to other reptiles, their varied appearance and lifestyles, their evolution and extinction, the fossil discoveries that scientists are continually making throughout the world--all are depicted in this beautifully illustrated,...

Provides information about enormous reptiles who swam the seas during the dinosaur age.

Describes animals of the African plains, forests, jungles, and deserts, and explains how each is able to adapt to its special environment.

Walking by the seashore, a child observes sand, waves, plants, and animals.