Ocean Child

¡El océano es un lugar misterioso, donde los animales grandes y chicos juegan a las escondidas! ¿Puedes imaginarte un tiburón escondido a plena luz? ¿Qué tal un pez payaso a la vista? ¿No lo crees? Entonces, sumérgete en la profundidad del océano azul con Jennifer Evans Kramer y ¡ A las escondidas en el océano! El océano es un antiguo, antiguo lugar, y los animales exóticos de las profundidades han aprendido a adaptarse a su medio ambiente para sobrevivir.

Meet Blanco, the Last Lighthouse Giant. Ages ago, giants arrived on the coastlines of the world. They built tall round houses on the dark headlands. Out their high windows they shone bright lanterns to guide ships safely past their homes. Blanco is the last of the lighthouse giants. From sunset to sunrise he shines his fish-oil lantern from his house on Cape Humbug, to aid steamer ships along the Oregon coast. Jenny Hughes, age ten, is Blanco’s friend. Jenny lives with her father, Jacob, on the Hughes Dairy Ranch below Cape Humbug. Each day Jenny and her father bring Blanco a kettle of ...

From lakes, to clouds, to rain that falls back to Earth - discover how water changes through various processes to form the water cycle.

Sejal, Mommy, and Pati travel together to the southern tip of India. Along the way, they share meals, visit markets, and catch up with old friends. For Pati, the trip retraces spaces she knows well. For Mommy, it’s a return to the place she grew up. For Sejal, it’s a discovery of new sights and sounds.

Welche Mutter und welcher Vater kennt sie nicht, die vielen Fragen neugieriger Kinder: «Warum? Wieso? Wie funktioniert das? Was ist das?»Natürlich sind die Tiere der Unterwasserwelt der Meere nicht so einfach in ihrem natürlichen Lebensraum zu beobachten wie die Wassertiere in unseren Flüssen, aber es sind wunderbare Tiere mit schillernden Farben, spannenden Eigenschaften und kleinen Geheimnissen. In diesem Buch werden zehn dieser Tiere vorgestellt.

Dutch student Boyan Slat always loved inventing. A visit to the oceans of Greece inspired his greatest invention ever. Why were there more plastic bags than fish? How could he save the sea? Learn more about Boyan’s Great Pacific Garbage Patch project; The Ocean Cleanup and his plastic cleanup invention, System 001; and the challenges behind removing trash from our oceans and rivers.

Dive under the waves with some of the ocean's most fascinating fish. From teeth to tail, learn what makes sharks so incredible. The engaging STEM topic makes this set perfect for budding marine biologists and adventure-seekers alike. You're about to get shark shocked! This volume includes Great White Shark, Hammerhead Shark, and Mako Shark.

Emily Windsnap is thrilled to arrive at her new home, a secret island near the Bermuda Triangle where humans and merfolk live together, and where being a girl who grows a tail as soon as she enters the water isn't a problem. Being Emily, she can't resist exploring forbidden places, and as a result, she inadvertently wakes the kraken, the legendary deep sea monster who has been asleep for two hundred years.

Oona is on a mission! A baby beluga whale has lost her way from her family and needs help getting back to her icy arctic home! But Oona and her best friend Otto have never traveled from their warm ocean waters before. Will old ship maps and a compass be enough to lead them through the dangerous storms ahead?

La científica marina Ellen Prager nos presenta a unos animales fascinantes y extraños que utilizan su "mucosa" para poder sobrevivir en el océano.

Ursula knew the submarine wasn't designed to go this deep, but what choice did they have? No one wanted to get swallowed up by a colossal sneezing jellyfish! In a distant watery corner of the Explorers Kingdom, a submarine engineer, Ursula, is determined to become an explorer. Unfortunately, she hides an extraordinary secret, which makes her the sworn enemy of the Ocean Squid Explorers' Club were they ever to find out.

One night, Emma finds a mysterious green bottle floating in the ocean. When she pulls out the stopper, she sets a blue genie free! Most genies grant three wishes, but Karim can’t grant even one anymore. A yellow genie stole his magic nose ring, leaving him small, powerless, and trapped in that bottle. Emma and her noodle-tailed dog have to help Karim get his nose ring - and his magic - back!

From the dramatic discovery of the world’s first analog computer to the incredible secrets uncovered in a sailor’s good luck charm, underwater excavation has revealed historical truths dating back to the beginning of modern civilization. As the exciting field of marine archaeology continues to grow, so do the astonishing discoveries from the ocean floor—with every sunken ship shedding light on moments in time that only the sea remembers. Shipwrecked! is a riveting deep dive into some of the world’s most incredible shipwrecks and what they reveal about human history.

This is the true story of the youngest daughter of a Sydney couple living at Lockhart River Mission for 9 years, raising their children within an Aboriginal village of five tribes. Conceived on Cape York, and finally moving to Rockhampton as a young child. A family tragedy in 1971 with the shocking death of brother Chris, two days before a family wedding, sees the upheaval of family life. Patty feels abandoned and has to educate and raise herself as well as learn to iron a cassock! Share her adventures in this gentle, humorous and insightful early memoir.

One evening, Patrick discovers a polar bear—in his parents' freezer! How did Monty—official name, Wilbur Ambrose Cedric Barnaby Montague the Third—get there? He talks like he might have swallowed a dictionary as well as a library, he has read more books than Patrick knew existed...and his stomach is always rumbling. Always. But how on earth is Patrick going to feed him on pocket money that doesn't stretch much further than a few tins of sardines?

Did you know that water can be in the form of a liquid, solid, or gas? Kids will learn about evaporation and condensation in this fun, fact-filled audiobook, Water Is Like Magic.

Four friends begin to put together the shattered pieces of their lives and to find out what this means for them. Now, disconnected from her future and unable to resolve her past, she inherits an old gray house. Yet, the moment she steps in Ravenwood manor, her past begins to unravel and soon she begins to find the missing pieces of her life with her sister, her friends, and the old attic that beckons her. She soon realizes she can reclaim her future, but will she have the courage to reclaim the magick of her past in time to save them all?

This is our blue planet: a beautiful blue marble suspended in a sea of stars. Unlike billions of other worlds in the Milky Way, 71 percent of our blue planet is covered by ocean. It's home to the greatest diversity of life on Earth but is our least explored habitat; we've better maps of Mars than of the ocean floor. With so much more to discover, take a deep breath...and dive into a wondrous world beneath the waves. Explore coral reefs that shimmer in a kaleidoscope of colours. Venture to the bottom of the ocean, where creatures beyond your wildest imagination live in the dark.

Becket Rumsey is all at sea. His dad has run away with him and his brother, Billy, in the middle of the night. And they've left everything behind, including their almost-mum, Pearl. Becket has no idea what's going on - it's a mystery. So with the help of Billy and a snail called Brian, Becket sets out on a journey of discovery. It's not plain sailing, but then what journeys ever are?

The first installment in The Adventures of Shelly Beach series, A Manatee Miracle introduces us to Shelly Beach and her family as they move to the Florida Keys. A friendly manatee leads Shelly and her brother Sunny to a magical paddle boat and on to save the fragile environment they have come to love.