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Otters (Usborne Beginners) by James Maclaine
11.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Where do otters sleep? When can baby otters start to swim? Why do some sea otters have purple teeth? Beginner readers can discover the answers to these questions and lots of other fascinating facts in this engaging information book. With simple text and stunning photographs and illustrations, plus link ...Show more
The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names by Matthew Murrie; Steve Murrie
35.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Kids love science, kids love animals, and kids love everything - everything - weird. Introducing The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Wild, Wacky Names, a science-based illustrated celebration of creatures notable for their bizarre, baffling, and just-plain-funny names. Meet the Waxy ...Show more
Rescuing Birds (Endangered Wildlife) by Anita Ganeri
24.00 NZD
Category: Animals
A powerful look at Earth's biodiversity loss, focusing on animals from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Discover some of the rarest and most threatened birds on Earth, from the flightless kakapo to the soaring waved albatross. Find out where they are found, what they eat, their life cycle and t ...Show more
Rescuing Reptiles (Endangered Wildlife) by Anita Ganeri
24.00 NZD
Category: Animals
A powerful look at Earth's biodiversity loss, focusing on animals from the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesDiscover some of the rarest and most threatened reptiles on Earth, from the legendary Komodo dragon to the tiny leaf chameleon. Find out where they are found, what they eat, their life cycle and ...Show more
Masters of Disguise by Marc Martin
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Now you see them, now you don't! Cloaked in a riot of colour, pattern and texture are a dozen animals - from chameleons and polar bears to Gaboon vipers and mimic octopuses - that have mastered the art of fading into the background. Fact-packed pages segue into clever and beautifully illustrated seek-an ...Show more
Orangutan Hats and Other Tools Animals Use by Richard Haynes
33.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Elephants that remove ticks with sticks? Otters that crack open their lunch with rocks? Crows that slide down a roof on a jar lid--over and over? Take a fascinating look at the use of tools by animals around the world. Move over, humans We're not the only creatures who can invent and use tools to keep o ...Show more
Invented by Animals by Christiane Dorion
28.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Humans think they invent everything, but the fact is, us animals have invented ways of solving problems, making unbelievable materials, ways of getting around and working out how to survive on our own for millions of years. In this book you will meet the animal inventors who have shared their super inve ...Show more
Are You Smarter Than a Shark? by David George Gordon
23.00 NZD
Category: Animals
Laugh your way through the intriguing world of sharks with Are You Smarter Than a Shark? Sure to pique the interest and tickle the funny bones of young shark lovers, this lively illustrated nonfiction book has the element that's been missing in other shark books-humor.
Funny Bums, Freaky Beaks (HB) by Sean Taylor; Alex Morss
28.00 NZD
Category: Animals
A delightful compendium of all the most unusual and unexpected features in the animal kingdom, from puzzling toes to weird ears, and all the other body parts in between! Carries the underlying message that everybody and everything is strange and wonderful in its own way - difference should be celebrated ...Show more
Know Your Horses by Jack Byard
18.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: Know Your...
"Know Your Horses" gives a full page photograph of each featured breed and Jack has conducted thorough research to produce an accompanying concise description of the animal's appearance, uses and history. He also includes fascinating snippets about the role of the breed in human history. Jack includes w ...Show more
Wings: Birds, Bees, Biplanes and Other Things with Wings by Tracey Turner
20.00 NZD
Category: Physics
Wings takes readers on a fact-packed flight over a fascinating subject. Written by Tracey Turner, Wings offers a bird's-eye view of the first aeroplanes, the fastest jet planes, beetles, birds, winged horses, flying dragons - even winged unicorns. There's fun, easy-to-read information on wings of all k ...Show more
How Not to Get Eaten by Josette Reeves
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals
An in-depth look at the many clever, creative, and crazy ways that animals protect themselves from predatorsFor many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator's menu. This book explores lots of cunning ways they avoid being eaten. From camouflage and colour-changing, natural armour, play ...Show more