A thrilling true story of a young sea otter pup’s adventure and triumph!
Sabby the Sea Otter is just a young pup, but his mom is teaching him everything about how to be a sea otter – how to dive underwater, how to find food in the ocean, and how to stay safe in a world full of danger. Sabby wants to know everything about the bay he and his mom live in. But one day Sabby’s curiosity gets him in trouble when a rushing tide traps him in a human-made hazard, a great big pipe filled with water. Now Sabby needs to learn how to survive on his own, while his mom fights every obstacle to find him.
Young readers will be thrilled with this true story of a how a real-life sea otter pup and his mom were reunited, while learning fun sea otter facts and an important lesson about how human activity affects wildlife. Illustrated with color photos of real sea otters, Sabby the Sea Otter: A Pup’s True Adventure and Triumph is a fun introduction to the ocean and the creatures who live there.
About the Author: Kim Steinhardt is an environmental writer and marine wildlife photographer who has been recognized as a “keen observer and a wonderful storyteller.” He interprets the natural world for all ages and audiences, and has been an adviser and photo contributor to National Geographic’s Explore My World series for children. He is co-author of The Edge: The Pressured Past and Precarious Future of California’s Coast.
Specifications:
Age Range: 5 – 9 years
Grade Level: Kindergarten – 4
Hardcover: 32 pages, 44 full color photos
List Price: $17.95
Publisher: Craven Street Books (March 1, 2020)
Product Dimensions: 9 x 9 inches
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Park Rangers and What They Do
Today, we head out with the forester. Do any trees have to be cut down or planted? Are there any animals in the forest that weren’t there before? Is the forest clean or did someone dump trash? Is there a walk in the dark on the program? The forester keeps an eye on all of that and protects nature.
For ages 4 and up.
Ocean Anatomy Sticker Book
Fans can’t get enough of Julia Rothman’s acclaimed illustrations from her best-selling book, Ocean Anatomy, and now they can put them anywhere they want with more than 750 stickers depicting birds, fish, lobsters, snails, sharks, jellyfish, and much more.
A fun, compact gift that’s easy to pack or ship!
This fun sketchbook is a great entry point into nature journaling! Great for adults and kids.
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Adults and children are irresistibly drawn to Julia Rothman’s best-selling illustrated guide to the natural world, Nature Anatomy, with its colorful drawings that awaken curiosity — and invite imitation.
With this companion volume, Rothman leads fans deeper into nature observation with her specially designed record pages for tracking daily nature sightings throughout the seasons. Her step-by-step technique tutorials for drawing a flower, a dragonfly, a robin, and much more, along with blank sketchbook pages, will inspire nature lovers and art enthusiasts of all ages to take up their own colored pencils or favorite pens and create their own unique Nature Anatomy Notebook.
Nature Anatomy by Julia Rothman
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Also available at the Wilder Ranch, Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz Mission, and Seacliff ParkStores.
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With lyrical text grounded in the latest research, this picture book shares the primal connection between all living things and fire. Children will grasp that fire is basic and powerful; that it has the capability to both destroy and create; that everything they know in the world has evolved with fire.
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