Mary Alice Monroe

Suzanne Slade

Barbara Mariconda

Kevin Kurtz

Set Includes all 55 hardcover Sylvan Dell titles in print: Carolina's Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!, Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean, Pieces of Another World, Christmas Eve Blizzard, How The Moon Regained Her Shape, Loon Chase, If A Dolphin Were A Fish, Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud, Tudley Didn't Know, Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights, The, Happy Birthday To Whooo?, If You Were A Parrot, One Odd Day, Turtles In My Sandbox, In Arctic Waters, ABC Safari, Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter, Rainforest Grew All Around, The, Ocean Seasons, In My Backyard, Burro's Tortillas, Day in the Salt Marsh, A, Little Skink's Tail, Julie the Rockhound, My Even Day, Kersplatypus, 'Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, Best Nest, The, Animals are Sleeping, Blackberry Banquet Sort it Out! My Half Day, River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers, Whistling Wings, Saturn for My Birthday, Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet, Where Should Turtle Be?, Henry the Impatient Heron, Ocean Hide and Seek, One Wolf Howls, What's New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure, Count Down to Fall, Moose and Magpie, Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls, Baby Owl's Rescue, Newton and Me, Felina's New Home: A Florida Panther Story, Little Red Bat, What's the Difference? An Endangered Animal Subtraction Story, Pandas' Earthquake Escape, Ready, Set, Wait!, Day on the Mountain, A , Fur and Feathers, Astro: The Steller Sea Lion, Champ's Story: Dogs Get Cancer Too!; Sylvan Dell Publishing will award any institution that purchases this set a 1-year eBook Site License, representing all titles. Proof of purchase necessary. The set comprises: A Day in the Salt Marsh; ABC Safari; Animals are Sleeping; Baby Owl's Rescue; Blackberry Banquet; Burro's Tortillas; Carolina's Story: Sea Turtles Get Sick Too!; Christmas Eve Blizzard; Count Down to Fall; Happy Birthday To Whooo?; Henry the Impatient Heron; How The Moon Regained Her Shape; If A Dolphin Were A Fish; If You Were A Parrot; In Arctic Waters; In My Backyard; Julie the Rockhound; Kersplatypus; Little Skink's Tail; Loon Chase; Moose and Magpie; Mother Osprey: Nursery Rhymes for Buoys & Gulls; My Even Day; My Half Day; Ocean Seasons; Octavia and Her Purple Ink Cloud; One Odd Day; One Wolf Howls; Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet; Pieces of Another World; River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers; Saturn for My Birthday; Sort it Out!; The Best Nest; The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights; The Rainforest Grew All Around; Tudley Didn't Know; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter; Turtles In My Sandbox; Twas the Day Before Zoo Day; Water Beds: Sleeping In the Ocean; What's New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure; Where Should Turtle Be?; Whistling Wings. All books feature a 3-5 page For Creative Minds educational section and additional Free Online Educator Resources: cross-curricular Teaching Activities, Interactive Reading Comprehension & Math Quizzes, Audio Books, and Related Websites.

Science and Math Through Literature

All Titles Set

Using a wide variety of stunning photographs, author Kevin Kurtz poses thought-provoking questions to help readers determine if things are living or nonliving. For example, if most (but not all) living things can move, can any nonliving things move? As part of the Compare and Contrast series, this is a unique look at determining whether something is living or nonliving. This nonfiction picture book with a cuddle factor includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 30-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Living Things and Nonliving Things is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Tap animals and other things that make noise to hear their sounds.

A Compare and Contrast Book

Living Things and Nonliving Things

Enjoy hours of fun with hundreds of would-you-rather questions for kids ages 8 to 12 Would you rather...leave the house barefoot OR wear tap shoes all day? Have your own treehouse OR your own secret room in your home with a hidden door? The Big Book of Would You Rather Questions for Kids offers hundreds of fun prompts to think about and laugh over with friends and family. With more than 350 thought-starters, kids will develop skills in critical thinking, creativity, and friendly debate. What sets this would-you-rather book apart: Kid-friendly questions--Keep the pages turning and the conversations flowing with age-appropriate questions that all ages will enjoy. On-the-go fun--Take this book anywhere with a compact size that makes it easy for kids to pass around, write their own questions, and bring on road trips. All kinds of questions--Discover silly and stimulating scenarios within 10 different categories, ranging from sports and hobbies to superpowers and skills. Enjoy hours of friendly debate for the whole family with this would-you-rather book for kids.

Over 350 Smart and Silly Scenarios

The Big Book of Would You Rather Questions for Kids

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Take a trip into orbit with the most up-to-date information on space tourism. With a STEM-focused sidebars, engaging photos, and fascinating facts, this book enables readers to explore the exciting space tourism industry—no astronaut training needed!

Cutting-Edge Space Tourism

Take a look at the many ways that teams use STEAM to solve problems. From developing smartphones to capturing images of black holes, there's nothing teams can't do when they work together!

Creativity, Innovation, and Teamwork

Crayola ® STEAM Teams

Mortimer finds a stick in the woodpile. With his imagination, he transforms into a mighty warrior. Mortimer finds himself battling ferocious dragons, murderous pirates and blood-thirsty trolls. These are only the beginning of Mortimer’s adventures. When he meets the mysterious Queen Valora, Ruler of the Land of Ruen, Mortimer must choose his allegiance. His decision triggers the final epic battle for control of the Western Lands.

Mortimer and the Powerful Sword

Introduces young readers to hourly changes in the salt marsh as the tide comes and goes, following the animals that have adapted to this ever-changing environment as they hunt for food or play in the sun.

A Day in the Salt Marsh

Rhyming verses take children up a mountain to explore how animals and habitats change as they travel higher and higher above sea level. Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.

A Day on the Mountain

Rapidly increasing sea levels are endangering coastal wildlife and contributing to major floods worldwide. In the future, some coastal cities may even be underwater. But what is behind this dramatic shift? Learn all about the role climate change plays in rising ocean levels and what effects this will have on our watery planet.

Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels

Sharks and dolphins both have torpedo-shaped bodies with fins on their backs. They slice through the water to grab their prey with sharp teeth. But despite their similarities, sharks and dolphins belong to different animal classes: one is a fish and gets oxygen from the water and the other is a mammal and gets oxygen from the air. Marine educator Kevin Kurtz guides early readers to compare and contrast these ocean predators through stunning photographs and simple, nonfiction text.

Sharks and Dolphins

Erin E. Hunter

Via rhyming text, introduces creatures who live way below the ocean's surface.

A Day in the Deep

Take a deep look into some of the most mysterious objects in the universe—black holes. Readers will explore the most up-to-date information available and be encouraged think critically about space discoveries in this STEM-focused title!

Cutting-Edge Black Holes Research

Explore outer space through interactive augmented reality experiences! Black holes are invisible because light cannot escape their gravity. Explore new techniques that astronomers use to study black holes and learn about thrilling discoveries in black hole science, with the help of exciting augmented reality features.

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