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Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of the year. In single file, the penguins march...
7) Birds
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of baby birds.
8) Insects
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of insect young.
10) Penguin chick
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Describes how a penguin chick depends on its parents to survive in the Antarctic.
11) Tigress
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Lyrical prose describes how a mother tigress teaches her two cubs to hunt and survive on their own. Includes sidenote tiger facts throughout.
12) Fish
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of baby fish.
13) Mammals
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Introduces the birth, development, care, feeding, and characteristics of baby mammals.
15) The big bad fox
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"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Fox? No one, it seems. The fox dreams of being the terror of the barnyard. But no one is intimidated by him, least of all the hens? When he picks a fight with one, he always ends up on the losing end. Even the wolf, the most fearsome beast of the forest, can't teach him how to be a proper predator. It looks like the fox will have to spend the rest of his life eating turnips. But then the wolf comes up with the perfect...
17) I heart you
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"A rhyming picture book about the loving parent-child relationship in animal and human families"--
19) Wild babies
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Describes the various parenting techniques of different types of wild animals and provides a close look at the behavior and characteristics of their offspring.