New Releases by PATRICIA LAUBER

A young boy and girl see lights at night on an offshore island, row out to the island and discover a cave, and eventually, during a storm, solve the question of what is going on out there.

Lauber provides an illustrated time line of how the world''s been waking up since the dawn of time.

Through a true-or-false format, presents statements about the history, uses, and behavior of dogs and discusses them.

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Describes the physical characteristics of a variety of snakes and how they hunt, catch, and eat their prey.

Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners.

As any cat owner knows, cats are born purrfect. But cats are purrfectionists -- they wish to make sure they are purrfectly purrfect. And that is why they go to the Acatemy, where they learn geography (CATskill Mountains, ConnectiCAT), mewsic (Kitten on the Keys), vocabulary (CATastrophe, CATapult), and, most important, EtiCAT, because knowing how to behave purrfectly is important. All of the students perform purrfectly, except Dudley. He''s only a kitten, much too young for the Acatemy. Will he ruin the Acatemy''s record for having all purrfect graduates?

Tells how hurricanes form, how scientists study them, and how they have affected the United States throughout this century.

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Through a true-or-false format, presents statements about the history, uses, and behavior of horses and discusses them.

Examines the work of zoo veterinarians focusing on such cases as a tiger with a toothache, a gorilla with a cold, and a tortoise with a broken bone.

Describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners.

Discusses the truth behind such beliefs as "Cats can see in total darkness," "Cats have nine lives," and "A cat signals its feelings with its tail."

Describes the 1994 discovery made in Chauvet, France, of a cave with Stone Age rock paintings, and discusses the significance of cave art to people living in prehistoric as well as modern times.

The earth is like a spaceship in orbit—it has everything on board that we need to survive: water, food, and air with oxygen. Unlike a space shuttle, Earth is able to renew its resources. Read and find out why Earth is the greatest spaceship to be aboard!

"[Here is] a charming introduction to the truly amazing octopus [from its intelligence to its ability to change colors to the camouflaging black ink it squirts to escape predators]. Lauber''s chatty, fact-filled text makes the book a good read-aloud, and Keller''s amusing and colorful drawings enhance it—a perfect match of text and illustration." —SLJ. Children''s Books of 1990 (Library of Congress)

Describes the severe flooding of the Mississippi River in 1993, the effects on people near the river, and the aftermath.

Presents the events in earth''s history that led up to the age of dinosaurs.

Let''s-Read-and-Find-Out Science Stage 2.

Why should you be a friend to trees? Trees are a valuable natural resource. People depend on trees for food, and animals depend on trees for food and shelter. But most important, we depend on trees because they add oxygen, a gas we all need, to the air. While trees give us many wonderful products, we must also protect them because we can''t live without them.

This photo-essay shows how animals adapt to their habitats.

Describes the eruption, aftermath, and gradual return of life to the Mount St. Helens slopes devastated by the 1980 eruption.

Examines the life cycle of the alligator from egg to adult and analyzes its significance in the ecological balance of nature.

Explains various changes in humanity''s beliefs about the shape of the earth, from the flat earth theories of the ancients to the round earth theories which were proven true by the voyages of Columbus and Magellan.

Four essays on the psychological aspects of art. A study of Leonardo treats the work of art, and art itself, not as ends in themselves, but rather as instruments of the artist''s inner situation. Two other essays discuss the relation of art to its epoch and specifically the relation of modern art to our own time. An essay on Chagall views this artist in the context of the problems explored in the other studies.

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Recreates life among the dinosaurs living in North America seventy-five million years ago.

Describes the characteristics and behavior of different kinds of whales and discusses why they are threatened by extinction.