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Ready, Steady, Sloth!
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: May 27, 2025
Format: Hardcover
Follow—very slowly—a brown-throated sloth and her clinging baby as they go on a secretive, daring mission in this captivating look at a hugely popular creature by a BBC documentary maker.
Did you know that sloths give birth hanging upside down? That they fall out of their tree in the rainforest canopy about once a week? That they’re covered with algae and small brown moths that serve as an excellent disguise? Or that it takes them thirty days to digest a single leaf? The animals’ slow digestion may account for their weekly long journey from treetops to ground (where they deposit a smelly signal to other sloths), and their talent for freezing in place helps to keep them safe from predators during this dangerous operation. With humor and warmth, this engaging narrative, coupled with vividly colorful, friendly illustrations, is sure to please sloth lovers and attract new fans. More information about the seven species of sloths can be found in the back matter, along with resources for helping to save this enduring animal’s dwindling habitat.
Ice Journey of the Polar Bear
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: November 26, 2024
Format: Hardcover
Written by a conservation biologist, this beautifully illustrated and atmospheric story gently explores the life of a polar bear in a time of climate change.
It snowed last night.
The first time this season.
More is on its way.
For a polar bear, winter’s first snow is a sign that it’s time to make a den—a safe place for her to sleep through the harsh season and give birth to her cubs. But the Arctic is changing; familiar landscapes are melting. What kind of world will her cubs grow up in? The story’s clear text and gorgeous, affecting illustrations capture the massive bear’s movements amid a crystalline landscape, while quietly observing the loosening ice and other effects of climate change on her life and that of her active cubs. Back matter offers more information and suggestions on how we can help protect the planet for these majestic animals.
Evolution: A Celebration of Beautiful Animals
Price: $22.99
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
Format: Hardcover
This stunning book shows how a variety of amazing creatures have evolved to look and behave the way they do.
From the familiar but imposing American bison to the elusive narwhal, the animals of the globe have all been touched by evolution, developing unique and fascinating traits to ensure their survival. In this deeply informative and gorgeously illustrated compendium of some of the world's most unique animals, celebrate the way all living things have adapted for survival in astonishing and beautiful ways.
Pau: The Last Song of the Kaua’i ‘o’o
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
Format: Hardcover
A moving ecological fable and a lyrical love song to a lost species from the cocreators of One Tiny Treefrog: A Countdown to Survival
Millions of years ago, the island of Kaua‘i began to bloom with life, color, and sound. In time, the ‘o‘o bird added its song to the island chorus. Then a new species arrived: people. The impact of more and more humans meant fewer and fewer Kaua‘i ‘o‘o. When scientists realized these unique birds were disappearing from the island, they deepened their efforts to observe them, including by recording their song. In time, only a single Kaua‘i ‘o‘o was singing, and inevitably, a day came when there were none: pau. Complete with clear back matter, this gentle and poetic portrait of a species that evolved over thousands of years, declined, and became extinct only a few decades ago touches lightly on key conservation topics like invasive species and island ecology. Illustrations drenched in tropical color will light up the imaginations of young naturalists and fuel their instinct to understand, protect, and defend our planet’s biodiversity.
Wildlife Crossings: Protecting Animal Pathways Around the World
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: August 13, 2024
Format: Hardcover
How have we prevented wild animals from accessing the pathways they need to survive? A look at seven species that humans have put at risk and are now trying to help.
From the cocreators of Water: How We Can Protect Our Freshwater comes a compelling picture book about threatened animal species around the world, among them elephants, hedgehogs, spoon-billed sandpipers, gibbons, salmon, grizzly bears, and cougars. Discover how the infringement of humans into these creatures’ habitats has cut them off from vital pathways and put them at risk, then find out how people are helping them by reconnecting wildlands and waterways. Trace the animals’ tracks, understand their challenges, and explore their journeys to find food, water, and the mates they need to survive. With an engaging narrative and bold illustrations, this enlightening book offers an end note providing a brief overview of similar challenges and solutions involving six more international species.
How the World Works
Series: Explore the Earth
Price: $8.99
Pub Date: August 13, 2024
Format: Paperback
Journey through the story of our magnificent home planet and its spectacular features in this beautifully illustrated picture book paperback about planet Earth.
Answering a multitude of questions about how our world works, this fun, engaging book introduces Earth’s important cycles and offers an exciting way to learn geography and science. Packed with facts, this book encourages readers to think about the impact of human actions on our environment while engendering respect for the natural world. Now available in paperback.
Out of the Blue
How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas
Price: $8.99
Pub Date: June 18, 2024
Format: Paperback
“Readers can begin to understand the joyous, wondrous, frightening complexity of the creation of life. A book to be read over and over for its intriguing story, illustrations, and captions.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
Clear and inviting nonfiction prose, vetted by scientists—together with lively illustrations and a time line—narrate how life on the Earth emerged “out of the blue.” It began in the vast, empty sea when the Earth was young. Single-celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life-forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of years in restless seas until they began to change, to convert sunlight into energy, to produce oxygen until one day—Gulp!—one cell swallowed another and the race was on. Learn how and why creatures began to emerge from the deep—from the Cambrian Explosion to crustaceans, mollusks to fishes, giant reptiles to the rise of mammals—and how they compare to the animals we know today, in a lively and accessible outing into the prehistoric past that boils a complex subject down to its lyrical essence.
Super Swifts: Small Birds with Amazing Powers
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: May 28, 2024
Format: Hardcover
An evocative nonfiction narrative follows the swifts on their epic journey north, from the jungles of Africa to nesting sites in Europe.
A swift may not look like anything special—it’s just a plain brown bird, small enough to nestle in the palm of your hand—but these superheroes of the avian world can fly incredible distances amazingly quickly, reaching speeds of up to seventy miles per hour and spending ten months of every year in the air. Follow one female swift from the steamy forests of tropical central Africa to northern Europe as she navigates arid desert and restless ocean, dodging predators along the way. Eating, drinking, and sleeping on the wind, she won’t rest until she’s reached her nesting site. Woven through with fascinating facts amplified in an author’s note and index, Super Swifts fuses gorgeous collage illustrations and a lilting text to evoke the grandeur of a voyage like no other—and introduce a singular bird with amazing powers.
One Tiny Turtle
Series: Read and Wonder
Price: $8.99
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
Format: Paperback
"Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic double-page pictures convey the astonishing facts about the Loggerhead sea turtle. . . . A powerful nature story for a young audience." —Booklist
Far, far out at sea lives one of the world’s most mysterious creatures, the Loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Then, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs—the very same beach where she herself was born. Nicola Davies’s lyrical text offers fascinating information about the journey of the tiny, endangered Loggerhead, while charming paintings by Jane Chapman vividly illustrate one turtle’s odyssey.
Kids Fight Extinction: Act Now to Be a #2minutesuperhero
Series: 2minutesuperhero
Price: $7.99
Pub Date: March 26, 2024
Format: Paperback
Kids are invited to do their part to help save endangered animals and plants with dozens of positive missions from environmental champion Martin Dorey.
Let dandelions grow wild in your garden? Scout for locally grown fruits and berries? Make a bird feeder? Check labels for palm oil? Protecting the earth’s wildlife and saving endangered living things from extinction may begin by changing what you eat, how you travel, and the things you buy. Eco-warrior Martin Dorey invites young readers to become a #2minutesuperhero by completing sixty fun missions at home, at school, and in their community that can help the planet and support some of the million species at risk of extinction.

Ready, Steady, Sloth!
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: May 27, 2025
Format: Hardcover
Follow—very slowly—a brown-throated sloth and her clinging baby as they go on a secretive, daring mission in this captivating look at a hugely popular creature by a BBC documentary maker.
Did you know that sloths give birth hanging upside down? That they fall out of their tree in the rainforest canopy about once a week? That they’re covered with algae and small brown moths that serve as an excellent disguise? Or that it takes them thirty days to digest a single leaf? The animals’ slow digestion may account for their weekly long journey from treetops to ground (where they deposit a smelly signal to other sloths), and their talent for freezing in place helps to keep them safe from predators during this dangerous operation. With humor and warmth, this engaging narrative, coupled with vividly colorful, friendly illustrations, is sure to please sloth lovers and attract new fans. More information about the seven species of sloths can be found in the back matter, along with resources for helping to save this enduring animal’s dwindling habitat.
Ice Journey of the Polar Bear
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: November 26, 2024
Format: Hardcover
Written by a conservation biologist, this beautifully illustrated and atmospheric story gently explores the life of a polar bear in a time of climate change.
It snowed last night.
The first time this season.
More is on its way.
For a polar bear, winter’s first snow is a sign that it’s time to make a den—a safe place for her to sleep through the harsh season and give birth to her cubs. But the Arctic is changing; familiar landscapes are melting. What kind of world will her cubs grow up in? The story’s clear text and gorgeous, affecting illustrations capture the massive bear’s movements amid a crystalline landscape, while quietly observing the loosening ice and other effects of climate change on her life and that of her active cubs. Back matter offers more information and suggestions on how we can help protect the planet for these majestic animals.
Evolution: A Celebration of Beautiful Animals
Price: $22.99
Pub Date: October 15, 2024
Format: Hardcover
This stunning book shows how a variety of amazing creatures have evolved to look and behave the way they do.
From the familiar but imposing American bison to the elusive narwhal, the animals of the globe have all been touched by evolution, developing unique and fascinating traits to ensure their survival. In this deeply informative and gorgeously illustrated compendium of some of the world's most unique animals, celebrate the way all living things have adapted for survival in astonishing and beautiful ways.
Pau: The Last Song of the Kaua’i ‘o’o
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: September 17, 2024
Format: Hardcover
A moving ecological fable and a lyrical love song to a lost species from the cocreators of One Tiny Treefrog: A Countdown to Survival
Millions of years ago, the island of Kaua‘i began to bloom with life, color, and sound. In time, the ‘o‘o bird added its song to the island chorus. Then a new species arrived: people. The impact of more and more humans meant fewer and fewer Kaua‘i ‘o‘o. When scientists realized these unique birds were disappearing from the island, they deepened their efforts to observe them, including by recording their song. In time, only a single Kaua‘i ‘o‘o was singing, and inevitably, a day came when there were none: pau. Complete with clear back matter, this gentle and poetic portrait of a species that evolved over thousands of years, declined, and became extinct only a few decades ago touches lightly on key conservation topics like invasive species and island ecology. Illustrations drenched in tropical color will light up the imaginations of young naturalists and fuel their instinct to understand, protect, and defend our planet’s biodiversity.
Wildlife Crossings: Protecting Animal Pathways Around the World
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: August 13, 2024
Format: Hardcover
How have we prevented wild animals from accessing the pathways they need to survive? A look at seven species that humans have put at risk and are now trying to help.
From the cocreators of Water: How We Can Protect Our Freshwater comes a compelling picture book about threatened animal species around the world, among them elephants, hedgehogs, spoon-billed sandpipers, gibbons, salmon, grizzly bears, and cougars. Discover how the infringement of humans into these creatures’ habitats has cut them off from vital pathways and put them at risk, then find out how people are helping them by reconnecting wildlands and waterways. Trace the animals’ tracks, understand their challenges, and explore their journeys to find food, water, and the mates they need to survive. With an engaging narrative and bold illustrations, this enlightening book offers an end note providing a brief overview of similar challenges and solutions involving six more international species.
How the World Works
Series: Explore the Earth
Price: $8.99
Pub Date: August 13, 2024
Format: Paperback
Journey through the story of our magnificent home planet and its spectacular features in this beautifully illustrated picture book paperback about planet Earth.
Answering a multitude of questions about how our world works, this fun, engaging book introduces Earth’s important cycles and offers an exciting way to learn geography and science. Packed with facts, this book encourages readers to think about the impact of human actions on our environment while engendering respect for the natural world. Now available in paperback.
Out of the Blue
How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas
Price: $8.99
Pub Date: June 18, 2024
Format: Paperback
“Readers can begin to understand the joyous, wondrous, frightening complexity of the creation of life. A book to be read over and over for its intriguing story, illustrations, and captions.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
Clear and inviting nonfiction prose, vetted by scientists—together with lively illustrations and a time line—narrate how life on the Earth emerged “out of the blue.” It began in the vast, empty sea when the Earth was young. Single-celled microbes too small to see held the promise of all life-forms to come. Those microbes survived billions of years in restless seas until they began to change, to convert sunlight into energy, to produce oxygen until one day—Gulp!—one cell swallowed another and the race was on. Learn how and why creatures began to emerge from the deep—from the Cambrian Explosion to crustaceans, mollusks to fishes, giant reptiles to the rise of mammals—and how they compare to the animals we know today, in a lively and accessible outing into the prehistoric past that boils a complex subject down to its lyrical essence.
Super Swifts: Small Birds with Amazing Powers
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: May 28, 2024
Format: Hardcover
An evocative nonfiction narrative follows the swifts on their epic journey north, from the jungles of Africa to nesting sites in Europe.
A swift may not look like anything special—it’s just a plain brown bird, small enough to nestle in the palm of your hand—but these superheroes of the avian world can fly incredible distances amazingly quickly, reaching speeds of up to seventy miles per hour and spending ten months of every year in the air. Follow one female swift from the steamy forests of tropical central Africa to northern Europe as she navigates arid desert and restless ocean, dodging predators along the way. Eating, drinking, and sleeping on the wind, she won’t rest until she’s reached her nesting site. Woven through with fascinating facts amplified in an author’s note and index, Super Swifts fuses gorgeous collage illustrations and a lilting text to evoke the grandeur of a voyage like no other—and introduce a singular bird with amazing powers.
One Tiny Turtle
Series: Read and Wonder
Price: $8.99
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
Format: Paperback
"Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic double-page pictures convey the astonishing facts about the Loggerhead sea turtle. . . . A powerful nature story for a young audience." —Booklist
Far, far out at sea lives one of the world’s most mysterious creatures, the Loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Then, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs—the very same beach where she herself was born. Nicola Davies’s lyrical text offers fascinating information about the journey of the tiny, endangered Loggerhead, while charming paintings by Jane Chapman vividly illustrate one turtle’s odyssey.
Kids Fight Extinction: Act Now to Be a #2minutesuperhero
Series: 2minutesuperhero
Price: $7.99
Pub Date: March 26, 2024
Format: Paperback
Kids are invited to do their part to help save endangered animals and plants with dozens of positive missions from environmental champion Martin Dorey.
Let dandelions grow wild in your garden? Scout for locally grown fruits and berries? Make a bird feeder? Check labels for palm oil? Protecting the earth’s wildlife and saving endangered living things from extinction may begin by changing what you eat, how you travel, and the things you buy. Eco-warrior Martin Dorey invites young readers to become a #2minutesuperhero by completing sixty fun missions at home, at school, and in their community that can help the planet and support some of the million species at risk of extinction.