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Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Provides simple information about different birds. Text consists of short and simple sentences, high-interest information, easy vocabulary with a high degree of phonic regularity and lots of repetition.
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Series
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Ripley Publishing, a Jim Pattison Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.
Description
Features strange stories, feats, and oddities from all over the world, including a cat with twenty-eight toes and a man who lived in a sand castle.
Publisher
Guinness World Records
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Description
Contains thousands of records that span every field of human and non-human endeavors, including science and technology, animals, sports, geography, arts and entertainment, education, hobbies and pastimes, unusual rituals, and many others.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 18 x 18 cm.
Description
Everything has its weird side-- even sports! Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of spots trivia with this new addition to the very popular Weird but True series! With the Olympics on the way, discover tons more zany fun, focused totally on the subject of sports!
Publisher
World Almanac Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1007 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm.
Description
The World Almanac is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2023 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2022 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a treasure trove of political, economic, scientific...
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
"This edition from Ripley's Believe It or Not features 144 pages of awesomely weird information and photos--from a life-size gingerbread house in Texas to a real underwater city in China, from a dolphin with an artificial tail to an ex-soldier with a bionic arm!"--2016 ed.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Description
This charming reference introduces young readers to the wider world by exploring languages, landscapes, weather, animals, capital cities, mountains, deserts, and other landscapes and landforms, and more. It encourages kids to get play with activities such as creating a mini-rainforest in a bottle and singing a simple song in Spanish. More than 100 colorful photos are paired with kid-friendly and age-appropriate maps along with basic facts about each...
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"...here are natural wondersthe dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's...
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Miss Peregrine volume Related works
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Presents an illustrated edition of the fantastical book featured in the Miss Peregrine series that includes unusual fairy tales about wealthy cannibals, a fork-tongued princess, and the origins of the first ymbryne.
This collection of stories, written for peculiar eyes only, presents unusual folklore that are a formative part of the upbringing of peculiar children everywhere. Encoded within their pages are the locations of hidden loops, the secret...
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Publisher
Ronin Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
196 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Description
"Filled with stories of strange phenomena, odd places, and weird beings in the Golden State, Eerie California tells of haunted houses, unexplained events, and creepy characters from the Dark Watchers and ghostly women -in-white to bizarre beasts like Bigfoot and the Billewhack monster. Discover painted caves, petroglyphs drawings, rocks that move on their own, and odd drawings of human figures in the desert sand only visible from the air. Eerie California...
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Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Mega space volcanoes...super-giant asteroids...a twenty-six-pound gummy bear? In the second installment of the Mr. DeMaio Presents! series, the crew is traveling across the galaxy in search of the biggest stuff in the universe...even if that means a sugary piece of candy that weighs more than three bowling balls!"--
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Series
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Description
Taking readers beyond the clock, this fascinating book, filled with facts, figures, and infographs, explores what happens around the world in just twenty-four hours.--
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