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STORYTIME @ HOME
Youth Services staff has created special resources to help facilitate a fun storytime experience in your home. We’ve outlined early literacy activities to help keep kids reading, singing, playing, writing, and talking every day.
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This educational title explores the various habitats and behavior of animals that live together in the forest. From a sleuth of bears to a parliament of owls, large photos take children on a journey around the globe to learn about animal groups. Each page spread has a simple sentence followed by facts about the animals. A quick quiz provides additional reading and learning fun!
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Sandcastle...
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Nonfiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
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"When a group of bees lives together, it's called a colony. Learn about life in a colony of bees and why these animals like to stick together. Find out how living together with others helps bees stay safe, find food, and mate"-- Provided by publisher.
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A fluffy chicken and a pup on wheels? A goat and a donkey who are inseparable? Lion, tiger, and bear best friends? This new chapter book features all kinds of heartwarming, awww-inspiring--and completely true--stories about animal friendships. So funny, sweet, and filled with engaging photos, fast facts, and fascinating sidebars, that you can't help but want to cuddle up and read about these unlikely pairings and animal best buddies. From the Trade...
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2022.
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"A rat will go out of its way to help a cold, wet stranger. Cockroaches pass down generational knowledge, hyenas form personal relationships with members of different species, and ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? Why do we believe that humans are special for their ability to live and work together, or worse, that human society is somehow "unnatural"? In The Social...
8) Lion pride
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This title explains what a lion pride is and what lions living together in a group do to help one another. For instance, lion prides hunt, care for young, and protect their territories together.
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[2009]
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A stray Labrador named Bella befriends Tarra, a former circus elephant and resident of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. While the pairing is unusual, the two are inseparable--even when a crisis threatens to separate them. Based on the national media sensation, this is a true story of friendship and loyalty.
11) The possibility dogs: what a handful of "unadoptables" taught me about service, hope, and healing
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A tour of the psychiatric service dog industry traces the author's work with unwanted shelter dogs before matching them with people in need, documenting her own partnership with a search canine while sharing uplifting success stories.
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"Inspiring, true tales of interspecies adoption, One Big Happy Family tells the heartwarming stories of animals who have reached out to save the lives of babies from other species and raise them as their own. Whether it's the border collie and his piglets, the cat and her ducklings, the orangutan and his lion cubs, or even the Labrador and her baby hippo, these are poignant, charming tales of animals who have felt the parental instinct and cared for...
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2015.
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Timid and kind Lakota lives with his pack -- his family -- in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, U.S.A. The wolves' days are filled with games, meals, and fun. But soon, as the pack members grow older, Lakota is picked on almost every day by the other wolves. That is, until Matsi steps in. When things get tough, Matsi blocks the others' nips and tugs. With Matsi by his side as his best friend, Lakota is able to open up and develop the courage to just...
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2010.
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Jonathan Balcombe, animal behaviorist and author of the critically acclaimed "Pleasurable Kingdom," draws on the latest research, observational studies and personal anecdotes to reveal the full gamut of animal experience--from emotions, to problem solving, to moral judgment, while at the same time challenging the widely held idea that nature is red in tooth and claw and highlighting animal traits we have disregarded until now.
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