Stephen R Swinburne

Dr. Kimberly Stewart, also known as the Turtle Lady of St. Kitts, is already waiting at midnight when an 800-pound leatherback sea turtle crawls out of the Caribbean surf and onto the sandy beach. The mother turtle has a vital job to do: dig a nest in which she will lay eggs that will hatch into part of the next generation of leatherbacks. With only one in a thousand of the eggs for this critically endangered species resulting in an adult sea turtle,...

Simple text and color photographs explore a variety of occupations and the shoes that are worn for the particular jobs.

Dive in for a taste of tide pool soup! When the tide goes out, a briny soup is trapped among the rocks. Playful poems introduce readers to ten salty tide-pool creatures--from a self-satisfied anemone that brags about its home to barnacles that perform a rap about their feeding technique. The poems are brought to life by Mary Peterson's lighthearted illustrations. A secondary layer of factual text introduces children to the creatures that inhabit...

"Told through the voice of Twiga the giraffe, this picture book shares knowledge about giraffes through math, using measurements, graphs, fractions, time, elemental geometry, and percentages."--

"A photo-essay featuring patterns that appear in nature, from animal colorings to physical phenomena."

"After a hard day's work, a garbage truck, a tractor, an 18-wheeler, and more are covered with dirt, so they visit the Big Truck Super Wash!" -- Provided by publisher.

Describes a day in the life of a grizzly bear family in Yellowstone's high country.