Presents a portrait of the Delaware Bay in the spring when a wide variety of animals, including minnows, mice, turtles, raccons, and especially migrating shorebirds, come to feed on the billions of eggs laid by horseshoe crabs.

3) Ma Jiang and the orange ants

Author

Porte, Barbara Ann

Publisher

Orchards Books

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

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When her father and brother are called away to war, Ma Jiang finds a unique way to trap the orange ants that her mother sells in order to make a living. Capturing and selling orange ants (thus named because they prey on insects that eat oranges) to the owners of orange groves has been the livelihood of the Ma family for many years. One day, though, the men in the family are taken away to serve in the emperor's army and no one is left to search for...

4) Tale of a tadpole

Author

Porte, Barbara Ann

Publisher

Orchard Books

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm

Language

English

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Francine and her family watch as their pet tadpole Fred gradually changes into what they think is a frog until Grandpa tells them Fred is a toad that should be living in the backyard.

5) With love from Koko

Author

McNulty, Faith

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1990

Physical Desc

[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Language

English

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The author records her visit with Koko, a young gorilla in California who uses sign language and who experiences many of the same feelings a child feels.