Best Selling Books by Miriam Schlein

When two lions meet, how do they say hello? Lions greet each other by rubbing their foreheads together. Wolves wave their tails and lick each other''s faces. With this fun and informative look at animal behavior, you can find out how various animals say hello to each other. Then... smile at, wave to, bow for, and hug your friends and family. Hello, hello!

Describes the many different kinds of squirrels and their behavior, including food-gathering, nesting, and the raising of young.

Different kinds of young animals, from whale to eagle, sleep safely with their own kind. The book pulls out to reveal a five-foot-long panorama on one side.

A little girl''s grandmother describes how the different people in her extended family waited for her to be born.

Discusses the reconstructed fossil remains of the small feathered creature called the Archaeopteryx which resembled both dinosaurs and birds

Presents four popular dinosaur stories bound in a single volume.

Explains what paleontologists have been able to determine about how the different varieties of dinosaurs cared for their young.

Fast is a galloping horse, a train, or a bolt of lightning; slow is a snail, a cloud on a lazy day, or growing.

Defines prayer and its role in Judaic tradition.

All the animals are puzzled by the green thing that comes out of the sky and lands on the grass.

An introduction to the metric system, a system of measurement which began in France approximately two hundred years ago.

An introduction to gorillas, gentle, shy residents of Africa.

Discusses several unusual varieties of the more than 800 different kinds of bats, such as the vampire bat, the flying fox, the tomb bat, and the sword-nosed bat.

Melissa, a little girl who would rather climb trees than play with dolls, hardly knows what to do with the doll she is given.

Billy was the littlest one in the family and he liked it that way. He, however, continued to grow until he was not the littlest anymore.

Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, reproduction, and life cycle of the panda.

Traces the evolution of the modern calendar from ancient times to the present day.

Lots of things are round, and lots more are square, made from four straight lines--but animals and people are never exactly round or square.

A puppy who has outgrown his basket looks for a suitable new house and samples the homes of all his friends.

Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of porcupines.

Describes Sir Harry Johnston''s efforts to locate and identify the okapi, a member of the giraffe family found deep in Central Africa''s rain forest.

Discusses how the elephant developed from a small, pig-like animal into the large, trunked and tusked creature of today.

Shows how lions, elephants, cats and human adults were all babies once.

Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, reproduction, and life cycle of the hippo.

Describes fishes, amphibians, and reptiles, all prehistoric animals that came before the dinosaurs

A picture book "with a few rhymed lines accompanying each drawing of an animal or human traveling by foot, by boat, by sled, and just about every other kind of locomotion." Publishers'' weekly.