Author: Anne Collet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In Swimming with Giants, Anne Collet describes the power and majesty of being close to some of nature's most magnificent creatures. Combining science with a sense of adventure, she conveys the sheer excitement of her work, from riding the tail of a white whale to saving animals harmed by drift nets or toxic spills.
Swimming with Giants
Author: Anne Collet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In Swimming with Giants, Anne Collet describes the power and majesty of being close to some of nature's most magnificent creatures. Combining science with a sense of adventure, she conveys the sheer excitement of her work, from riding the tail of a white whale to saving animals harmed by drift nets or toxic spills.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In Swimming with Giants, Anne Collet describes the power and majesty of being close to some of nature's most magnificent creatures. Combining science with a sense of adventure, she conveys the sheer excitement of her work, from riding the tail of a white whale to saving animals harmed by drift nets or toxic spills.
Swimming Giants
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 159716612X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Imagine a turtle that’s 13 feet [4 m] long! That’s just one of many surprises to be found in Swimming Giants, a book about the creatures that inhabited the world’s ocean waters during dino times. In this exciting companion to Flying Giants, young readers will get a glimpse into the steamy world of long ago where some fish, such as the Shonisaurus, were over 50 feet long [15 m] and had spine bones the size of dinner plates! The simple text and colorful illustrations will help kids learn about the similarities between these ancient swimmers and modern-day animals. Developed by literacy experts, Swimming Giants features controlled text with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure for emergent readers.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 159716612X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Imagine a turtle that’s 13 feet [4 m] long! That’s just one of many surprises to be found in Swimming Giants, a book about the creatures that inhabited the world’s ocean waters during dino times. In this exciting companion to Flying Giants, young readers will get a glimpse into the steamy world of long ago where some fish, such as the Shonisaurus, were over 50 feet long [15 m] and had spine bones the size of dinner plates! The simple text and colorful illustrations will help kids learn about the similarities between these ancient swimmers and modern-day animals. Developed by literacy experts, Swimming Giants features controlled text with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure for emergent readers.
Whales: The Gentle Giants
Author: Joyce Milton
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385374631
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Illus. in full color. "Milton understands what kids like about whales, and packs a considerable amount of information into the book. This easy-reader leaps with appeal."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385374631
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Illus. in full color. "Milton understands what kids like about whales, and packs a considerable amount of information into the book. This easy-reader leaps with appeal."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
Ocean Soul
Author: Brian Skerry
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426208162
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of Brian Skerry's ocean photography, including sharks in the Bahamas, leatherback sea turtles in Trinidad, and right whales in the Auckland Islands.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426208162
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of Brian Skerry's ocean photography, including sharks in the Bahamas, leatherback sea turtles in Trinidad, and right whales in the Auckland Islands.
Swimming Giants
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597165425
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Provides information about enormous reptiles who swam the seas during the dinosaur age.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1597165425
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Provides information about enormous reptiles who swam the seas during the dinosaur age.
Prehistoric Swimming Giants
Author: Monica Hughes
Publisher: TickTock Books
ISBN: 9781846967542
Category : Animal swimming
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
I love reading series is a unique new series of exciting, informative graded non-fiction readers for children aged 5-7 years.
Publisher: TickTock Books
ISBN: 9781846967542
Category : Animal swimming
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
I love reading series is a unique new series of exciting, informative graded non-fiction readers for children aged 5-7 years.
Giants
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648715405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Jem Cresswell's striking anthropomorphic photographic work allows us to view the complex creatures that are humpback whales and the intimate bonds they form in a manner that is befitting of sentient beings who think, feel and communicate like we do. It opens a dialogue that mutes the distances between our species, creating a space in which the restless modern spirit is humbled into peaceful submission.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648715405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Jem Cresswell's striking anthropomorphic photographic work allows us to view the complex creatures that are humpback whales and the intimate bonds they form in a manner that is befitting of sentient beings who think, feel and communicate like we do. It opens a dialogue that mutes the distances between our species, creating a space in which the restless modern spirit is humbled into peaceful submission.
Amazing Giant Sea Creatures
Author: Marie Greenwood
Publisher: DK Children
ISBN: 9781465419019
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides an introduction to the biggest creatures found in the ocean, including the lion's mane jellyfish, the great white shark, the sperm whale, and the giant squid.--
Publisher: DK Children
ISBN: 9781465419019
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides an introduction to the biggest creatures found in the ocean, including the lion's mane jellyfish, the great white shark, the sperm whale, and the giant squid.--
Science of Swimming Faster
Author: Riewald, Scott
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 0736095713
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Editors Riewald and Rodeo assemble many of the world’s leading swimming experts to reveal the latest in research, technology, training, and performance across the sport. Authoritative and applicable, Science of Swimming Faster dives into the physiology, biomechanics, medicine, psychology, and training for swim performance while providing prescriptive advice along the way.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 0736095713
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Editors Riewald and Rodeo assemble many of the world’s leading swimming experts to reveal the latest in research, technology, training, and performance across the sport. Authoritative and applicable, Science of Swimming Faster dives into the physiology, biomechanics, medicine, psychology, and training for swim performance while providing prescriptive advice along the way.
Go Giants: Poems
Author: Nick Laird
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347699
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
An inventive new collection by the writer whom Colm Tóibín called “an assured and brilliant voice in Irish poetry.” Go Giants, Nick Laird’s stunning third volume of poetry, is full of "epic ambition." In a collection that’s "easily his most accomplished to date…[Laird] gives everything of himself in a poetry as expansive and thought-provoking as his considered response to an infinitely complicated universe needs it to be" (The Guardian). Laird boldly engages with topics ranging from fatherhood and marriage to mass destruction and the cosmos. Go Giants is a brash, brave, and wildly imaginative new collection. From Go Giants: Go in peace to love and serve the. Go and get help. Go directly to jail. Go down in flames. Go up in smoke. Go for broke. Go tell Aunt Rhody. Go tell the Spartans. Go to hell. Go into detail. Go for the throat.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347699
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
An inventive new collection by the writer whom Colm Tóibín called “an assured and brilliant voice in Irish poetry.” Go Giants, Nick Laird’s stunning third volume of poetry, is full of "epic ambition." In a collection that’s "easily his most accomplished to date…[Laird] gives everything of himself in a poetry as expansive and thought-provoking as his considered response to an infinitely complicated universe needs it to be" (The Guardian). Laird boldly engages with topics ranging from fatherhood and marriage to mass destruction and the cosmos. Go Giants is a brash, brave, and wildly imaginative new collection. From Go Giants: Go in peace to love and serve the. Go and get help. Go directly to jail. Go down in flames. Go up in smoke. Go for broke. Go tell Aunt Rhody. Go tell the Spartans. Go to hell. Go into detail. Go for the throat.