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Publisher
Candlewick Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"It's a warm, sunny day--the perfect day for Peppa and her family to take a nature walk. After a tasty picnic lunch, it's time to explore! Peppa has brought along her favorite book, Nature, Nature Everywhere, filled with interesting facts about all the things there are to see. There are spotted ladybugs, baby birds in a nest, funny cloud shapes, slow-moving turtles, and more. Along the way, Peppa and George like to play by making things with flowers...
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Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Douglas is very excited - he's off on a nature walk with all his friends from Little School! Miss Moo-Hoo has given everyone a worksheet with a list of interesting things to find - flowers, twigs, berries . . . and bugs! Soon everyone is too busy searching to notice that . . . DRIP, DROP . . . it's started to rain! Join Douglas and his friends for some fun in the great outdoors in this brand-new adventure!
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Los Angeles is a hiker's perfect playground: from enchanted canyons to bountiful beaches, the range of terrain provides an almost endless variety of trails, vistas, and even weather conditions.
Organized by level of difficulty, beginning with the most forgiving trails and building up to the toughest, Ecstatic Trails emphasizes the experience of the hike, guiding you to romantic hikes, trails that are right for children, thrill hikes, day trips you...
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This delightful rhyming storybook introduces young readers to twelve different Stories.From nature walks to Watching fireworks, each page features a new Adventure pre-story with lively rhymes and vibrant illustrations.Join the children as they embark on exciting adventures, riding on trains and alike; with each turn of the page, readers will discover the magic.
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This guide to the wildlife and vegetation of California's Central Valley and Foothills Regions features more than seven hundred detailed line drawings.
California's San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys and the nearby Sierra Nevada Foothills are host to abundant, varied, and often surprising plants and wildlife. This fully illustrated guide pairs over seven hundred meticulous line drawings with descriptions of the birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles,...
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Inspirational reflections on the art of teaching from the acclaimed essayist and teacher who inspired Dead Poets Society.
Sam Pickering has been teaching for more than forty years. As a young English teacher at Montgomery Bell Academy in Tennessee, his musings on literature and his maverick pedagogy touched a student named Tommy Schulman, who later wrote the screenplay for Dead Poets Society. Pickering went on to teach at Dartmouth and the University...
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Based on the Port St. Lucie Legend
What drives someone to kill? Is it something within them, or an outside force that influences them?
One of Florida's most overlooked serial killers (Gerard John Schaefer) wrought havoc along the Treasure Coast and Hutchinson Island in the 1970s. His reign of terror consisted of unspeakable acts of torture, rape, and murder by an ancient oak tree. He hanged people there, buried their bodies, and came back often...
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Find peace and stillness among the flowers with this lovely pocket guide to observing, identifying, and appreciating wild blooms.
Explore the charmed world of flora with this delightful flower book, part of the Pocket Nature series. Learn when and where to look for wildflowers, how to identify different varieties, and what flowers can teach us, from fireweed's resilience to dandelion's adaptability.
This petite guidebook also offers creative ideas...
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Experience the magic and excitement of the holiday season like never before with "2023 Pre-Christmas and After-Christmas." This comprehensive guide takes you on a journey through the festive period, from the days leading up to Christmas to the enchanting days that follow, offering an abundance of ideas, inspiration, and practical tips to make this year's celebrations truly extraordinary.
As the anticipation builds, delve into the pre-Christmas preparations...
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Without a map, navigate by the stars. Susan Tweit began learning this lesson as a young woman diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that was predicted to take her life in two to five years. Offered no clear direction for getting well through conventional medicine, Tweit turned to the natural world that was both her solace and her field of study as a plant ecologist. Drawing intuitive connections between the natural processes and cycles she observed...
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Almost since the dawn of time, the image of the Green Man-the carven enigmatic head surrounded by leaves and foliage-has both intrigued and mystified viewers and folklorists alike. Appearing in churches, taverns, and even on stately buildings, the carving seems shrouded in supernatural obscurity. Is it merely a fertility symbol, or is it something much deeper, which calls for a response from us all? Though it seems a predominantly Celtic icon, does...
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"A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces - light, wind and water - that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather. Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect...
17) All that grows
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"A boy discovers he has much to learn while observing plants with his older sister -- a story about cultivating patience and letting knowledge grow. As a boy walks around the neighborhood with his older, green-thumbed sister, she tells him all about the plants they see -- magnolias that smell like lemon cake, quince trees that will bloom the most beautiful red, daffodils that are the flower of Mother's Day, and even dandelions, whose greens can be...
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"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
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2024.
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"Magic is fading from Wales--choked off by King Offa's Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the dragons have disappeared. And now an attack is imminent. Prince Taliesin would love to watch magic die. Prince Dafydd fears it, and the throne. But when their father promises the crown to whichever son can destroy the dyke and restore magic to Wales, the brothers are forced into an uneasy rivalry. Ffion works hedgewitch magic for...
20) Not a smiley guy
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the day he’s born, Ernest has few complaints. His family is lovely; the world has a lot to offer. He’d like there to be more elephants around, but hey, you can’t have everything. Ernest is just as happy as the next guy. The trouble is, everyone around him is obsessed with smiling. His parents smile when he learns to walk, when he learns to talk, when he learns to button up his snowsuit. But smiling just isn’t for Ernest, and they can’t...