Bøger af Gina Shaw

Who's Looking After the Zoo?How do you weigh a panda? Or check a sea lion's tooth? Or figure out why a llama is limping? These are just some of the many tasks veterinarians, technicians, and animal keepers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo are trained in. With full-color photos and lively, accessible text, this new title looks at the very busy "to do” list of zoo workers as they take care of their creatures large and small.

Primate Power! What's got long red hair, toes that work like thumbs, arms longer than its legs, swings from tree branch to tree branch, and can even use an iPad? The amazing orangutan! Smithsonian's National Zoo is actively working to help save this endangered primate. Curious about how? Check out this 8 x 8 filled with full-color photos and lively text about how orangutans live and how the Zoo provides for their enrichment and survival.

Sometimes it is hard to solve a problem when none of the choices are good. Ms. Futzy always seems to get into these predicaments. Find out what happens when Ms. Futzy finds ants in her plants (and everywhere else too).

To begin with, "feral" means wild, untamed, don't touch. And of course, "feline" means in the cat family. So Freddy was a wild cat who decided to live in Miss Futzy's house.Now Miss Futzy loved animals…but not wild ones in her house.But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's go back to the beginning and see how this all got started.

When does it snow? Why is snow white? How do we know no two snowflakes are alike? (Hint: the proof is in the photographs, first made in the 1890s!) With full-colour photographs and the Smithsonian's famous Wilson Bentley snowflake photos.