Adrienne Mason
3) Skunks
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Kids Can Press
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c2006
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Provides an introduction to skunks, including their habitat, diet, and physical features.
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Each year, more than a million people visit the spectacular sweep of sand that stretches along Vancouver Island's west coast between Tofino and Ucluelet to watch waves crash ashore on a series of beaches-essentially one long beach separated by small rocky headlands, a shoreline steps away from howling wolves and towering red cedars. In Long Beach Wild: A Celebration of People and Place on Canada's Rugged Western Shore, local resident Adrienne Mason...
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Young readers can learn how to be modern-day Noah and protect the world's plants and animals from extinction not by building a giant boat, but by making small changes in their everyday lives - from planting trees to turning off the tap - to help preserve the world's biodiversity. Planet Ark is part of CitizenKid™, a collection of books that inform children about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens.
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It's not just humans combating global warming. Meet one of Earth's "ecosystem engineers"!
In this fascinating and unique book, a marine biologist reveals how whales are "ecosystem engineers" - animals that create, modify or maintain a habitat or ecosystem. Whales do this by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. They store loads of carbon in their bodies for decades, even centuries; when they die, they sink to the ocean floor,...