Margery Facklam, Author Little Brown and Company $6.95 (16p) ISBN 978-0-316-27374-9
In each of these books, a red-headed child proudly states ""I go to sleep'' or ``I eat dinner'' and then tells how it differs from the way animals eat or sleep: ``Not like . . . a turtle in a shell, and not like a cat who sleeps anywhere. I go to...
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Margery Facklam, Author Clarion Books $13.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-89919-773-9
When Luke and best friend Buzz interview Major Madison, a visitor in town promoting his book The Cleaning of America , they assume he is an army officer trying to clean up the environment. Luke learns later that the Major wants to ``clean up'' the...
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Margery Facklam, Author, Sylvia Long, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $6.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88106-272-4
Here's the buzz from this chipper picture book: though they may not be everyone's favorite dish, bugs make tasty treats for many creatures, even humans. In simple rhyming verse, Facklam (The Big Bug Book) offers a list of critters that regularly...
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Margery Facklam, Author, Sylvia Long, Illustrator Charlesbridge Publishing $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-88106-271-7
Here's the buzz from this chipper picture book: though they may not be everyone's favorite dish, bugs make tasty treats for many creatures, even humans. In simple rhyming verse, Facklam (The Big Bug Book) offers a list of critters that regularly...
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Margery Facklam, Author, Nancy Carpenter, Illustrator Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5122-2
Facklam lends her considerable scientific expertise to this quiet tale about the first Christmas and the reverberating power of nature. On the night Jesus was born, there were no such things as Christmas ornaments and tinsel, only the light of a...
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Margery Facklam, Author, Pamela Johnson, Illustrator Sierra Club Books for Children $14.45 (48p) ISBN 978-0-87156-573-0
From this book youngsters will learn that ``anthropomorphism''--ascribing human characteristics to animal communication--can be harmful to science. But they will also discover intriguing and surprising behavioral traits that will increase curiosity...
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Margery Facklam, Author, Jeni Bassett, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $6.95 (20p) ISBN 978-0-15-200419-4
The concepts of motion and anatomy are presented with charm and appeal in these small-size books with gatefold flaps. In So Can I, each spread shows an animal in motionswimming, swinging, hopping, hugging. Lifting the flap reveals a child performing
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