New Releases by Bobbie Kalman

There are more than 5,600 species of amphibians on Earth, and about 4,990 of those species are frogs. Using clear text and full-color photographs, Frogs and Other Amphibians teaches readers about the bodies, senses, habitats, and behaviors of frogs, salamanders, and caecilians.

Presents pictures of rapping reptiles that will make children laugh and want to create their own rap verses.

How is a family a community? This book shows young readers that, like a community, a family has members who perform roles. Parents teach and care for their children and go to work to earn money for the family; children have rules to follow and household jobs to perform. Cooperation and communication between family members keeps the family community strong. Questions throughout the book encourage children to relate the information to their own families.

Provides advice for beginning rabbit owners on choosing, preparing for, feeding, caring for, and handling a rabbit.

Learn about Yellowstone National Park and its habitats, lakes, canyons, rivers, and mountains.

Discusses cultural similarities and differences around the world.

This engaging book looks at human time as well as how time passes in nature. How do animals and plants sense changes in time? What changes do we see in nature throughout a day, month, and year?

When living things die, they still have energy and nutrients in their bodies. The leftover energy and nutrients are used by other living things. Nothing is wasted in nature. Living things that eat dead things help clean the Earth.

How are we the same and different? We are the Earth What is culture? What is religion? Book jacket.

Mexico is dry deserts and lush rain forests, it is also rolling hills and broad plains. Mexico is full of contrasts: factories and farms, huge cities and small towns, populated areas, and untouched wilderness. Mexico is a land of variety.

This book makes a complicated subject easy to understand. Through captivating photographs, Bobbie Kalman shows how some animals regulate their body temperatures in different ways, such as by shivering or panting, flapping their wings, or swimming in different parts of oceans.

Full-color photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the concepts of big and small.

Provides examples of patterns in nature, either visual or in recurring events.

Challenges children to observe natural creatures to see what makes them the same and different.

Full-color photographs and simple text introduce young readers to various animals, fish, and reptiles that have skeletons.

Nature is full of patterns. Patterns are made up of shapes such as spots, stripes, circles, triangles, and combinations of these. Colors play a big part in patterns as well. Bobbie Kalmans new book helps explain how some patterns help camouflage animals or scare predators away, and how certain patterns seem to appear everywhere in nature! For example, spirals can be seen in the formation of flower petals, the construction of many seashells, in ocean waves, and in hurricanes.

An introduction to the concept and types of textures, including cold water, a furry bunny, and a rough tree trunk.

Discusses colors found in nature.

Explores the many kinds of plant-eating animals in our world, from grass-eating hippos to wood-eating termites.

Describes salmon their habitat, different species, life cycle, dangers they face, and helping them.

This book introduces baseball, a team sport, discussing the field, the players, the rules of the game, and much more.

Discusses choosing a poodle, the history of the breed, puppy care, grooming, training, and more.

Discusses whales and their young, where they live, what they eat, what noises they make and the dangers they face.

Describes the physical characteristics of skates and rays, where they can be found, what they eat, and how they survive.

The grasslands of Africa are home to some of the most interesting plants and animals. This book features animals that graze on the grasses, how they hunt, as well as how animals find food, water, and shelter on the savanna.

In The Antarctic Habitat, children will find a detailed description of the freezing, snow- and ice-covered continent of Antarctica. Stunning photographs feature different species of birds, seals, and whales.

A Desert Habitat describes one of the world''s most fascinating desert habitats: the Sonoran Desert. Discover how animals find food, keep cool, and stay alive.

Explains the different types of rodents including guinea pigs, what they eat, where they live, how they protect themselves, and how they reproduce.

The Arctic Habitat provides children with an introduction to this cold, vast region. Easy-to-read text and colorful photographs help show how plants and animals have adapted to the harsh environment.