הספרים של הוצאת BOYDS MILLS PRESS
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The award-winning author of How Beastly! and Before the Storm celebrates the beauty, power, and wonder of water in all its diverse forms, in a collection of meditative poetry enhanced by full-color photographs....
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Luminescence sheds light on the adventure of science. Scientists and many others have explored the science and wonder of cold light--the chemistry of animals and things that make light but not heat. A 17th-century alchemist tried to turn a stone into gold. He failed, but the stone glowed in the da...
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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Wanda cleans up an empty lot so the rosebush she found there can bloom, despite the doubts of her neighbors....
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To keep up with the fast pace of dinosaur research, this popular volume has been fully updated with stunning new illustrations.This third edition features thirty-eight dinosaurs including T.Rex and other favourites - plus twelve of the most recent exciting and important of the discoveries of the pas...
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Amid the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Leah's father is faced with the loss of the family farm and puts his farm and equipment up for auction, but Leah comes up with the money by selling her beloved pony. Jr Lib Guild....
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Acclaimed illustrator Michael Garland brings his trademark realism to this immortal classic with paintings that are as crisp and clear as a Halloween night in Sleepy Hollow. Full-color illustrations....
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Noor lives in a country near the Arabian (Persian) Gulf. She's looking forward to the festival known as Girgian that comes in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan. These middle days are known as 'the three whites', because they include the day of the full moon and day before and after. It's when ...
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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents a collection of poems celebrating summer sights and sounds....
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Brendan has a new baby brother named James. Brendan's mum and dad and grandma are amazed at what Baby James can do. He can smile. He can roll himself over. He can even burp! But Brendan can do these things, too. With his baby brother getting all the attention, Brendan wants to make sure the family h...
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The author describes his early years up until the age of ten, growing up on a Missouri farm and how he decided to be a writer....
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This book features bugs that make kids say 'Wow!' Here are twenty-one six-legged wonders from around the world - from the half metre long Giant Stick Insect of Borneo to the Western Pigmy Blue butterfly of just one centimetre. Huge mandibles, tiny bumps and other amazing adaptations - big and little...
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Emma's turtle lives in a backyard pen. He enjoys snacks that Emma feeds him. He also loves to listen to Emma as she tells him about faraway places such as Africa, Australia, and China.Emma's turtle has a good life, but he often dreams of those faraway places. One day he decides to stop dreaming and ...
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This book is revised to expand on the Pluto Controversy. To give young readers the science behind the headlines, astronomer Ken Croswell has revised the acclaimed "Ten Worlds" - the most substantial and beautiful children's book about the solar system. Pluto is demoted and astronomers revolt! In 200...
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A father tells his son the story of how he damaged a neighbor's garden when he was a boy and what he did to make amends....
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The award-winning author of Dinosaurs and The Sky Is Full of Song captures a young boy's dreams, experiences, and feelings over the course of a single tumultuous year of his life, in a collection of autobiographical poems....
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Large, fierce, and often dangerous predators might seem the best survivors. They have superior strength, great speed, and high levels of intelligence. If they are so well equipped, why are they among the rarest of animals and the most threatened by human activity?To answer these questions, Ron Hirsc...
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Like any Katydid, Katy loves to hop through the garden. Her hopping lands Katy in trouble, however, when she scatters a bee's pollen and ruins a spider's web. To make matters worse, her little brother, Lou, follows behind her shouting, 'Katy Did it! Katy Did it!' It seems that Katy can do nothing ri...
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An anthology of poetry celebrates the natural wonders of our world and details the human responsibility toward preserving the planet, in works by C. S. Lewis, Christina Rossetti, Joseph Langland, William Stafford, and other notable authors....
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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY....
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Bears roam North America from the waters of the Canadian arctic to the forests of the United States southeast. Black, grizzly, and polar bears are thrilling to see in the wild and exciting to study. In order to appreciate how wonderful bears are it helps to get to know them. Black bears, the most ab...
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What has the whiskers of a walrus, the eyes of a mole, the wrinkles of an elephant, the tail of a beaver, and the gentle nature of a sloth? A slow-moving, water-loving, plant-eating, gentle giant called a manatee. The manatee has been swimming the oceans for ages. But today this ancient animal faces...
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The author of The Always Prayer Shawl, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, explores the meaning of Hanukkah in the story of a grandfather who recounts to his grandson his family's life under the Nazis."...
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A Pakistani-American girl takes part in her aunt's traditional Pakistani wedding....
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Eagerly awaiting the bus on her first day of school, Tess learns the names of different vehicles from her older friend, Gus....
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"A photo-essay featuring patterns that appear in nature, from animal colorings to physical phenomena."...
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From the author of "Maizie" and "Hound Heaven" comes a lovingly told story that captures the special experience shared between a grandparent and child. On a warm and sunny day, a young girl helps her grandfather tend his bees. Full color ....
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A holiday counting book with rhymes and alliteration depicting how the six sheep dressed as creepy ghosts are frightened off, one-by-one, by trick-or-treaters until only one creepy sheep is left to knock on the door of a lonely barn. Full-color illustrations....
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Writers are often advised to write about what they know, but few could turn the humdrum routine of a school visit into such an engaging picture book. In rhyming couplets, a boy tells how his class prepares for author Amanda Drake's arrival: reading her books, decorating the room, making lemonade, ba...
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"Starting at the source--Lake Tear, in the Adirondacks--›Lourie| paddles his canoe all the way to Battery Park, at the south end of Manhattan. . . . The many color photographs that illustrate the book give a sense of glorious, solitary adventure".--"The Village Voice Literary Supplement". Full col...
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Takes young readers on a canoe trip along one of America's greatest waterways, from its terminus in Buffalo on Lake Erie to Albany, using full-color and historical photographs and text to explore the canal's technological and historical significance."...
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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY....
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Two children play the flute and the drum and are joined by a dog, horse, cow, and parade of other animals as they sing and dance over hill and dale, in a noisy romp featuring a rhythmic, onomatopoetic text....
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Agustinia was a giant, four-footed plant eater with strange plates and spikes running down its back. Achelousaurus would have looked a lot like its relative Triceratops, if Triceratops' horns had been snapped off. Feathered Guanlong looked as fierce as its cousin T. rex - but Guanlong was only 10 fe...
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More than seventy busy pictures, culled from the pages of Highlights magazine, prompt young readers to find the more than one thousand objects hidden in each of them. Original....
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Presents an introduction to the Earth's only flying mammal. This title features watercolours that depict various bat species....
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Amid the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Leah's father is faced with the loss of the family farm and puts his farm and equipment up for auction, but Leah comes up with the money by selling her beloved pony. Jr Lib Guild....
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This title takes you on a journey to frog heaven. If you're walking in the woods, you can tell that winter is changing into spring by the riot of sound that fills the air. The quacking, piping, and creaking that you hear are the sounds of frogs singing their love songs. Follow those sounds and they ...
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During summer vacation all the brothers and sisters and cousins of one large family come to stay together at a big house by the shore. Each morning Grandpa wakes the sleepy children to go clam digging. Each day they return with hardly any clams at all. But one day after a big storm they go down to t...
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A sixteen-year-old girl rides through the Putnam County, New York countryside like Paul Revere to alert Patriots that the British have burned Danbury and are headed their way....
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An informative text and color photographs present some very unusual insects, focusing in on their appearances, their shapes, their life cycles, and their adaptations for survival....
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Joseph loves books and on library day, the librarian lets him take two books home--an easy one he can read by himself and a harder one that someone can read for him. One night, Joseph takes his book to his mother and is distressed to find out that she can't read. This compassionate story of how a mo...
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Describes how cheese is made, from a sample's beginnings on a Wisconsin dairy farm until a cheese factory ships the final product across America....
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Giggles abound in a zany collection of whimsical verses that explore the wonders and curiosities of childhood, from caterpillars and paleontology to chicken pox and ripped pants....
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In the days when only wealthy Korean children are allowed to attend school, a poor boy named Song-ho learns by listening outside a schoolroom door, which eventually earns him a chance to better himself and make life easier for his widowed mother....
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Tracks the path of a huge storm in Spring 1982 from the Pacific coast to New York, explaining why storms move west to east, how weather forecasters follow their progress, and the connection between geography and meteorology....
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Exploring fourteen ecological mysteries, including why a herd of reindeer would suddenly disappear, and why dead pigs would become mummified, a naturalist and wildlife biologist takes readers on a journey of discovery and investigation. Jr Lib Guild....
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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A guide for young writers for performing their poetry with style and pizzazz....
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From the tiny cookiecutter to the great white, the world's oceans are home to hundreds of species of sharks. This book details the length, eating habits and the environment of the many species....
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