New Releases by Nancy Honovich

Updated, expanded, and buzzing with the latest information on all the wild, wacky, cool, and creepy insects and spiders that kids love, this is a must-have title for all young explorers! Get ready to meet even more incredible bugs in the second edition of Ultimate Bugopedia! Featuring snakeflies, the red fire ant, the Indian domino cockroach, and hundreds more, this expanded edition explores all your favorite creatures that creep, crawl, and climb. Wonder how different spiders make their webs? This book has you covered with facts, photos, and explanations of the six different types of webs! If you think caterpillars are cool and butterflies are beautiful, you won’t want to miss the section on metamorphosis. Reviewed by an expert in the field of entomology and featuring completely updated facts and figures, parents, teachers, and young readers can be sure they’re getting the latest and greatest information on all things bugs. It’s the perfect fun-filled reference book for use at school or home.

Illustrated children''s reference book about ancient Egypt. Includes mummies, pyramids, pharaohs, hieroglyphs, gods, history, and more.

"Information about insects formatted for children."--

Make birthdays magical with this adorable book, filled with 30 cool pull-out birthday postcards and fun themed content. Precious animal photos paired with heartfelt and funny (and pun-ny ) captions help kids celebrate that most special of days. Each card also leaves plenty of room for kids to craft their own messages to show friends and family how much they care. Content includes tips and tricks for writing fun and friendly birthday notes and being a good guest, as well as cute creature pictures to spread that warm, fuzzy feeling far and wide.

Greetings adventurer! Are you prepared to delve deep in the Amazon jungle? Ultimate Expeditions Rainforest Explorer will take you to a place where awe-inspiring adventure awaits... but so does danger! The world’s most massive rain forest promises both beauty and peril. Ultimate Expeditions Rainforest Explorer presents young readers with the thrilling tales of famed explorer Harold Bennington. Harold has just returned from an exciting research expedition where he recorded his observations of the most magnificent creatures he has ever encountered. From pink river dolphins, to blood-drinking vampire bats, to fierce jaguars, these rare, beautiful beasts are described so vividly they seem to pounce off the page! Ultimate Expeditions Rainforest Explorer comes complete with illustrations, maps, photos, and facts, making it the perfect companion for any aspiring adventurer. As an added bonus, each of Mr. Bennington''s eight animal profiles come with assembly instructions and all the materials you need to make your own 3-D model.

Dinosaurs may be gone, but we can learn from their fossils! Ultimate Expeditions: Dinosaur Hunters gives you facts, and even lets you make 3D models of 8 dinos. Though dinosaurs are long extinct, their bones can be used to piece together the puzzle of their past. Fossil hunter Jackson Foster has just returned from a three-month expedition uncovering the remains of dinosaurs that roamed across North America millions of years ago, and he has a fascinating tale to tell. From the massive and toothy Tyrannosaurus rex to the speedy Coelophysis that traveled in packs, Ultimate Expeditions: Dinosaur Hunter brings to life eight incredible creatures, with illustrations, maps, fossil finds, and facts about when, where, and how they lived. Accompany Foster on his thrilling adventures, and take a trip beyond the page and back to a time when animals were larger than elephants, some weighing more than 88,000 pounds! Follow the assembly instructions to create your own fierce 3-D models of each dinosaur.

Rijk geïllustreerd overzicht van 400 insecten uit de hele wereld, vergezeld van informatie over o.a. communicatie, nuttige en schadelijke insecten en bedreigingen.

"Learn what it takes to be a real-life explorer in this fun and action-packed guide to discovering the world around us...Amazing stories, fantastic photos, and hands-on-activities inspire curious kids to start discovering on land, air, and sea. Profiles feature National Geographic explorers of all kinds...Kids are inspired to follow their passions into careers and introduced to the first steps to take to achieve their dream."--

"Find adventure! Go outside! Have fun! Be a rock hound!"--Cover.

Join the adventure of a lifetime as you explore the Amazon Rain Forest! Follow the trail of the jungle''s most magnificent creatures, including silent jaguars, leaping monkeys, and pink river dolphins in The Field Guide to Rain Forest Animals. Learn the difference between New World and Old World monkeys, how to detect the presence of a Dwarf Caiman crocodile, and why Vampire Bats can walk and run. This unique interactive journal is filled with photographs, maps, and detailed illustrations of eight interesting jungle animals. At the end of this book kids can continue the adventure by assembling their animals amidst a colorful diorama for their own museum-ready display!

A child friendly guide to the essentials of photography.

"This fun-filled guide inspires kids to get out of the house and explore the great outdoors where they can discover the wonder and amazement of the world around them, whether in their backyard, across the country, or around the world. Full of fun activities, kids will learn how to make backyard bird baths, explore their local state parks, participate in an outdoor community event, and much more. Activities for every season, spring, summer, winter, and fall will be included to keep kids engaged all throughout the year. And some rainy day actitiveis will also be presented. Fun facts, lists, and sidebars supplement activities to help put information into geographic, scientific, and/or historical context, to help kids dig deeper and learn more."--

Texts and photographs look at over four hundred insects.

An introduction to the hidden worlds of popular insects profiles their habits, habitats, and diets while providing thematic spreads that share additional historical and geographical fun facts.

Go face-to-face with the world''s most awesome predators! Extreme: Sharks is packed with incredible photos of the most fascinating creatures in the sea!

Go face-to-face with the world''s most awesome predators! Extreme 3-D: Sharks is packed with incredible 3-D photos of the most fasincating creatures in the sea!

Explora el Ártico y la Antártida y descubre ocho asombrosos animales que habitan en los polos, como los enormes osos polares, las letales orcas y los curiosos narvales. ¡Y luego monta tus propios animales polares!

Discover the world''s most fascinating birds! Written as the research notebook of a 1920s naturalist, The Field Guide to Birds includes 59 pieces that kids can easily use to assemble eight exotic birds. By placing their birds in the removable diorama, they''ll get closer than ever before to seeing these wild creatures in their natural habitats. The Field Guide to Birds offers kids an in-depth look at the remarkable creatures that fly through the skies of southern Asia and Oceania, from the greater flamingo, whose color is determined by its diet, to the golden bowerbird, who croaks like a bullfrog. Kids can go on the adventure of a lifetime-without leaving home!

Viaja de nueva Zelanda a la India y descubre ocho de las aves más fascinantes del mundo, desde el ave del paraíso de Wilson, en Indonesia, hasta el milano negro de Vietnam. Y, después, ¡monta tus propias aves exóticas!

Suivez les pas d''une ornithologue à la découverte des beautés de l''Asie tropicale. Au coeur de forêts splendides, vous croiserez des oiseaux extraordinaires : kiwis, paons verts, flamants roses, casoars, oiseaux de paradis... dont vous pourrez monter les maquettes, afin que je jeu prolonge le plaisir de la lecture.

Brr! Bundle up, kids, you''re about to depart on an incredible, icy expedition in The Field Guide to Polar Animals. In this clever book, kids will discover the 1920s journal of a fictional zoologist who traveled to the subarctic region and Antarctica. The journal is filled with observations about the animals he encounters on his journey to the ends of the earth. From polar bears to penguins, kids will learn all about wildlife in the planet''s most extreme environments. Detailed illustrations, maps, photographs, and handwritten diary excerpts make readers feel as if they''re part of the expedition. Kids can also create a 3-D polar scene with a full-color diorama and eight easy-to-assemble polar animals that come with the book. Very cool.

Tijdens een expeditie naar de Noord- en Zuidpool maken we kennis met acht pooldieren. Reisdagboek van de natuuronderzoeker Nora Jenkins met kleurentekeningen, puzzelstukjes van pooldieren en maquette. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.