For Bookworms

Say, Good Morning to the plants, trees and animals with this bestselling book featuring artwork by Native American Pacific Northwest Coast artist, Paul Windsor.

• Board Book
• For readers newborn and up
• Good Morning World by Haisla, Heiltsuk artist, Paul Windsor

From Apatosaurus to Zupaysaurus, the 26 dinosaur friends in this over-sized board book will enchant preschoolers and help them learn their ABCs. Developed in conjunction with paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History, it features extra-large letters; bright, detailed illustrations of the dinos; information about each creature; and an embossed tactile cover that feels like bumpy dinosaur skin!

• Board book
• For readers 2 - 5 years
• Illustrated by Scott Hartman

Slowly, slowly, slowly . . . that's the way the sloth moves. Slowly, it eats and then, slowly, it falls asleep. "What strange kind of creature is this?" the other animals wonder. Why doesn't it run or fly or play or hunt like the rest of us? "Why are you so slow?" the howler monkey inquires. But the sloth doesn't answer any questions until the jaguar asks, "Why are you so lazy?"

Anyone who has ever felt too busy will appreciate the sloth's peaceful lifestyle and realize that it's okay to take time to enjoy life. Eric Carle' s dazzling collage illustrations introduce readers to the exotic beauty of the Amazon rain forest and the many unusual animals living there.

• Paperback
• For readers ages 3 - 7 years
• Written by Eric Carle

What are the causes and consequences of climate change? When the scale is so big, can an individual make any difference? Documentary, diary, and masterwork graphic novel, this up-to-date look at our planet and how we live on it explains what global warming is all about. With the most complicated concepts made clear in a feat of investigative journalism by artist Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Changed weaves together scientific research, extensive interviews with experts, and a call for action. Weighing the potential of some solutions and the false promises of others, this groundbreaking work provides a realistic, balanced view of the magnitude of the crisis that An Inconvenient Truth only touched on.

• Paperback
• 480 pages
• Written by Philippe Squarzoni

Written by noted entomologist George C. McGavin, this comprehensive handbook covers all 29 orders of insect as well as spiders and terrestrial arthropods. It's packed with hundreds of annotated photographs and illustrations to help you discern the many types of insects and gives you a brief description of each insect family with main characteristics, including life cycles, the environment in which they thrive, and a photographic guide to assist you in categorizing the insect group. It's an indispensable handbook for beginners and enthusiasts alike.

Smithsonian Handbooks are the most visually appealing guides on the natural world in the book marketplace. Featuring more than 500 full-color illustrations and photographs, along with detailed annotations, Smithsonian Handbooks make identification easy and accurate.

• Paperback
• For readers 13 and up
• Written by George C. McGavin

The sun is setting, time to rise! At dusk, when an owl's day is just beginning, a baby owl asks questions and a mama owl offers comforting answers in this gentle, reverse bedtime book, featuring lulling, lyrical text and luminous illustrations of the nighttime world.

• Hardcover
• For readers ages 4 - 8 years
• Written by Matthew Heroux and Wednesday Kirwan

In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist published an accurate description of the process. Later, Merian and her daughter ventured thousands of miles from their home in the Netherlands to the rainforests of South America seeking new and amazing insects to observe and illustrate.

Years after her death, Merian's accurate and beautiful illustrations were used by scientists, including Carl Linnaeus, to classify species, and today her prints and paintings are prized by museums around the world. More than a dozen species of plants and animals are named after Merian.

• Paperback
• For readers ages 8 - 12 years
• Written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and Jeyaraney Kathirithamby

In this read-along picture book, a classroom full of young dinosaurs plays with toys, does art projects, and reads books. But each activity is another opportunity for the over-enthusiastic Tyrannosaurus Rex to wreak havoc. Parents and young children will love the call-and-response nature of the book, and young dinosaur fans will appreciate the listing (and pronunciation guide) for a dozen different dino species. The format is extra vertical in order to accommodate T. rex's biggest messes.

• Board book
• For readers ages 1 - 4 years
• Written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and Illustrated by Zachariah OHora

Llamaphones, Janik Coat's much-anticipated follow-up to Hippopposites and Rhymoceros, features witty words that sound the same but are spelled differently-and have different meanings. Like the other books in the series, this one features surprising novelties, including a touch-and-feel element, making homophones an easy and fun concept to learn.

• Board book
• For readers ages 2 - 4 years
• Written by Janik Coat

Welcome to the exciting land of Jurassic, a dinosaur graphic novel for all ages one hundred and fifty million years in the making - featuring the triumphant return of the Brontosaurs! For decades the beloved Brontosaurus was thought to have never existed and that its bones belonged to another dinosaur known as the Apatosaurus. In 2015, dinosaur fans were rocked as the paleontology community concluded that the Thunder Lizard (as the Brontosaurus is known) was indeed a species of sauropod!

From the mind of Ted Rechlin, author and illustrator of Tyrannosaurus Rex comes a thrilling new prehistoric adventure whisking readers along a wild journey encountering many famous dinosaur species. Both educational and scientifically accurate, Jurassic centers around the survival story of a young Brontosaurus calf trying to maneuver through the golden age of dinosaurs.

• Hardcover
• For readers ages 9 - 12 years
• Written and illustrated by Ted Rechlin

Bring the prehistoric world back to life in your own ultimate dinosaur coloring adventure. Dinosaurs Live! features wonderfully detailed and scientifically accurate coloring pages from acclaimed artist and dino-enthusiast Ted Rechlin (Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jurassic). Each page is jam-packed with amazing facts and coloring areas of your favorite dinosaurs as fossilized museum mounts and in their full glory as they triumphantly roamed the Mesozoic earth.

Featuring thirty-one dinosaurs in prehistoric scenes and species ranging from famous favorites to more recently unearthed finds, Dinosaurs Live! is the perfect coloring adventure for dinosaur lovers of all ages.

• Paperback
• 64 pages
• Written and illustrated by Ted Rechlin

A leader among the Lakota during the 1860s, Chief Red Cloud deeply opposed white expansion into Native American territory. He rejected treaties from the U.S. government and instead united the warriors of the Lakota and nearby tribes, becoming the only Native American to win a war against the U.S. Army. Despite his military successes, Red Cloud recognized that continued conflict would only bring destruction to his people. He made the controversial decision to make an agreement with the U.S. government, and moved his people to a reservation. The effects of his decision-as well as the conflicts that arose from those who rejected the agreement and continued fighting against white expansion, such as Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull-shaped much of the history of Native American relations with the U.S. in years to come.

• Hardcover
• For readers ages 8 - 12 years
• Written by S.D. Nelson

A wonderfully illustrated puzzle book teeming with dinosaurs to spot, count, and match. An activity book children will want to share and scrutinize with friends and family.

• Hardcover
• For readers ages 4 years and up
• 32 pages

This is an exceptional poetry collection written by Lakota students in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The historic school was founded in 1888 at the request of Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Lakota. The poems enable readers to learn about the unique lives and heritage of students growing up in such distinctive circumstances and straddling cultures. The collection was compiled by a teacher at the school, working with school administrators, and contains never-before-published artworks by award-winning artist S. D. Nelson.

• Hardcover
• For readers ages 8 - 12 years
• Edited by Timothy P. McLaughlin and Illustrated by S. D. Nelson

Following in the footsteps of the groundbreaking Alphablock and Countablock, Dinoblock features thick pages cut into the shapes of dinosaurs! Readers will be introduced to more than 20 different kinds of dinos via die-cuts of their unique silhouettes and the illuminating comparisons to familiar things from a young child's world. I stretch high like the ladder on a fire truck. I am a Brachiosaurus. As children touch the pages, they have a chance to guess the dinosaur and appreciate the uniqueness of its silhouette. A final gatefold delivers a roundup of all the dinos included. This hands-on approach, delivered in colorful pages by hip British design team Peskimo, makes for an immersive, age-appropriate introduction to a favorite topic of childhood.

• Board book
• For readers ages 1 - 4 years
• Written by Christopher Franceschelli

Meet Cobalt, forty feet long, seven ton apex predator. Cobalt is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most famous dinosaur of all. He is trying to stake out a territory of his own - not an easy task, even for a T. rex! Cobalt's world is one where his food can bite back, and meeting another T. rex can be more dangerous than anything else.

• Hardcover
• For readers ages 9 - 12 years
• Forward by @SUEtheTrex
• Written and illustrated by Ted Rechlin

How do mothers and fathers-whether they are apple trees, sheep, or humans-pass down traits to their children? This question fascinated Gregor Mendel throughout his life. Regarded as the world's first geneticist, Mendel overcame poverty and obscurity to discover one of the fundamental aspects of genetic science: animals, plants, and people all inherit and pass down traits through the same process, following the same rules.

Living the slow-paced, contemplative life of a friar, Gregor Mendel was able to conceive and put into practice his great experiment: growing multiple generations of peas. From observing yellow peas, green peas, smooth peas, and wrinkled peas, Mendel crafted his theory of heredity-years before scientists had any notion of genes.

Children will be inspired by Gregor's neverending search for knowledge, and his famous experiments are easy to understand as an introduction to genetics. The only picture book available about the father of genetics and his pea plants!

• Hardcover
• For readers ages 8 - 11 years
• Written by Cheryl Bardoe and illustrated by Jos. A. Smith

A charming bedtime story to foster a serene sleeping environment for your child.

• Board Book
• For readers newborn and up
• Artwork by various Native American Pacific Northwest Coast artists

Illustrated in full color, this foldout wonderfully presents a short description of the more famous gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt.

• Size: 7" W x 9" H
• Printed in Egypt
• Illustration & design by Jeanne Rogers