Jason Chin
1) Redwoods
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A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
2) Grand Canyon
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"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain"--
3) Gravity
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"What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
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Holiday House
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Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe? -- Amazon
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During an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.
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Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched, this historical and scientific book tells the epic saga of the life of an island-its birth in fire, its rise to greatness, its decline, and, finally, the emergence of life on new islands....
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Roaring Brook Press
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2012
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., maps (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
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Presents a visual tribute to the evolving terrain and animals of the Galapagos that traces the island's fiery origins, its rise and decline as an environment, and the emergence of life on new islands. This book is the biography of a Galápagos island- from birth, through adolescence, to adulthood, and beyond.
8) Coral reefs
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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A young girl gets quite a surprise when the text of a library book she is reading transforms her surroundings into those of a teeming-with-life coral reef!
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Vista Higher Learning
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[2021]
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53 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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A river winds through the landscape, eroding the rock for millions of years, shaping a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, as much as 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as ... Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that live within its walls, Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through this wondrous place, discovering life both present...
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Picarona
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abril de 2022.
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38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
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Un niño de ocho años, de media, es cinco veces más alto que este libro, pero sólo la mitad de alto que un avestruz. Y un avestruz es la mitad de alto que una jirafa, que solamente tiene la vigésima parte de la altura de una secuoya roja. ¿Y cómo de altas son las secuoyas en comparación con los grandes rascacielos? ¿Y con el monte Everest? ¿Y en relación con los planetas, estrellas, galaxias y el universo? El galardonado autor Jason Chin...
12) Watercress
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Holiday House
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Award Winners for Kids
Award Winning Books for Kids
Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage
Diverse Books for Kids
Award Winning Books for Kids
Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage
Diverse Books for Kids
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Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
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A picnic, a beach, a pie cut into pieces and shared with good friends.
Pie is for sharing.
It starts off round, and you can slice it into as many pieces as you want. What else can be shared? A ball, of course. A tree? What about time?
Through the course of one memorable Fourth of July picnic, Stephanie Ledyard and Jason Chin take young readers through the ups and downs of sharing in this lovely picture book.