Young readers will be drawn in by eye-catching photographs of penguins, pelicans, parrots, and more. They will come away knowing not only the national bird of the United States, but what that bird's main food is.
Many species of cuckoo lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. After the young cuckoo hatches, it may eject the other babies from the nest so it can thrive. Readers learn these and other amazing facts about the life cycle of the cuckoo through engaging and information text.
Groups birds according to whether they are found in city and town, farm country, field and meadow, or woodland and then describes the birds, their nests, and their eggs.
A study of dinosaur reproduction, discussing what has been learned about dinosaur mating behavior, eggs, nests, and babies from clues found in the fossil record.
Describes the expeditions led by Roy Chapman Andrews for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.
Discusses the discovery by fossil hunters in 1997 of a nesting ground full of dinosaur eggs, and tells what scientists learn from their study of the unhatched eggs.
Presents a portrait of the Delaware Bay in the spring when a wide variety of animals, including minnows, mice, turtles, raccoons, and especially migrating shorebirds, come to feed on the billions of eggs laid by horseshoe crabs.
