Crabtree Publishing.Crabtree Publishing 350--5th Ave., #3308, NY, NY 10118 $22.60/Each www.crabtreebooks.com Crabtree's titles are geared to curriculum needs and thus make excellent choices for schools who face regular report needs. These recent Bobbie Kalman books are real winners, and highly recommended picks for discriminating dis·crim·i·nat·ing adj. 1. a. Able to recognize or draw fine distinctions; perceptive. b. Showing careful judgment or fine taste: collections for grades 2-5. Endangered en·dan·ger tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers 1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil. 2. To threaten with extinction. Elephants (0778-718603) surveys the life cycle of an elephant, its specific environmental needs, and why these bring it in increasing conflict with humans; Endangered Chimpanzees (077871859X) surveys chimp habits and why they are hunted and vanishing; Endangered Pandas (0778718581, $22.60) surveys where pandas live, their narrow eating habits and loss of habitats, poaching poaching: see cooking. problems and protection efforts; and Endangered Leopards (0778718566, $22.60) identifies the eight kinds of leopards, their life cycle and differences, and why there's less room for them. The 'Food Chains' titles ($22.60 each) are also winners for young students of ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. . Seashore Food Chains (0778719499) surveys how plants to carnivores obtain food from sun, sand, and surf; Prairie prairie Level or rolling grassland, especially that found in central North America. Decreasing amounts of rainfall, from 40 in. (100 cm) at the forested eastern edge to less than 12 in. Food Chains (0778719472) discusses how food is made and consumed in a prairie environment--something only touched upon in most competing 'food chains' books which focus on rainforests and shore primarily; and Tundra tundra (tŭn`drə), treeless plains of N North America and N Eurasia, lying principally along the Arctic Circle, on the coasts and islands of the Arctic Ocean, and to the north of the coniferous forest belt. Food Chains (0778719466) discusses tundra animals, plants, and food webs. All include discussions of environmental protection, species status, and plenty of facts and color photos. |
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