development

A photo essay about the first six to eight months in the life of a duckling, abandoned before hatching and later adopted by a farmyard hen.

Text and photographs follow a baby chick through its first year of life as it learns how to peck for food, plays with other chicks, and develops into a rooster.

Photographs and text follow two young pygmy goats as they grow, learn, and play during their first year of life.

Divides insects into four categories, according to their developmental stages, and discusses their habits and characteristics.

Photographs and text depict the development of a rabbit from birth through six weeks of age.

Text and photographs help young children understand how a baby grows and develops in the first year; includes activities designed to help children understand how a baby moves, eats, feels, sees, and sleeps.

Explore the deep, dark sea and come face to face with ferocious sharks. Meet various kinds of sharks from prehistoric times and those that swim today. Learn everything about these predators of the sea, their hunting and feeding habits, their senses, the threats they face, and their survival tricks. Get up close with them through superb illustrations and in-you-face photographs.

Explains, in simple text and illustrations, the growth and development of plants, including how animals spread seeds, why flowers are important, and what happens to plants in winter.

Photographs and text record the changes calves go through as they grow from birth to adulthood.