This fun book provides an easy-to-read introduction to worms. The book features simple text and vibrant photos, making it a perfect choice for beginning readers. It also includes a table of contents, picture glossary, and index. This Little Blue Readers book is at Level 1, aligned to reading levels of grades PreK-1 and interest levels of grades PreK-2.

Oh, no! What's that awful smell? Has someone crossed paths with a skunk? Although they're best known for their distinctive odor when threatened, most skunks are happy to go about their business quietly in the dark. This book explores the life cycle and habits of a creature that most of us hope we'll never encounter. Color photographs depict in detail what most people see only as a shadow moving in the darkness. Fact boxes provide fun insights.

It's night. It's dark. It's time to go indoors-or is it? The outdoors at night can be a scary place, but this book will help young readers investigate the mysterious nature of night. To explore the night, it would be great to have eyes like an owl, the sensitive nose of a deer, and feet that can move as silently as a fox. Humans aren't quite as good as nocturnal animals at navigating the darkness, but we can come surprisingly close. Our senses are...

The aardvark has a grumbly tummy. The ants have something yummy. Share their treats, they will. But...the ants won't budge!

Who's that flying overhead? If it's after sunset, it might be an owl. Even if you didn't spot it, it very likely saw and heard you. This book introduces young readers to these amazing nocturnal hunters. Full-color photographs showcase some of the owls' most intriguing physical adaptations, and fact boxes present additional fun information. Your thrilled and informed readers might evolve into owl-spotting bird watchers.

These killer spiders don't like to be bothered, and most people will gladly keep their distance. When they do get close to humans, however, it can be very dangerous. A brown recluse bite is full of venom and needs immediate medical attention. This book is full of facts about these fierce arachnids, how they live, and what to do if you find yourself face-to-face with the feared brown recluse. Readers will also discover how the changing climate on Earth...

Look at animal adaptation in a whole new way. Of course having long legs allows a horse to run fast, but why does a jellyfish switch on its own light down in the ocean? Find out the answers to lots of odd questions like this. There's more to animal adaptation than you ever realised!

While reading a bedtime story starring sleepy animals dozing off, the unflappable narrator, distracted by nocturnal animals who have anything but sleep on their minds, improvises the nocturnal brood into the verse.

"This easy-to-read nonfiction story tells a "night in the life" of an owl, from waking up, hunting, and feeding babies, to going back to sleep when the sun comes up"--

In Aardvarks, beginning readers will follow an aardvark as it digs for finds food and digs burrows. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn how aardvarks survive in the wild. A labeled diagram helps readers identify an aardvark's body parts, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about aardvarks online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate...