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Nic Bishop's colorful chameleon chameleon (kəmē`lēən, –mēl`yən), small- to medium-sized lizard of the family Chamaeleonidae. About eighty species are found in sub-Saharan Africa, with a few in S Asia. The so-called common chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon, is found around the Mediterranean. photos lend in Joy Cowley's captivating CHAMELEON, CHAMELEON (0439666538 $16.95), a fine picturebook survey of a cautious chameleon who searches for a new home. The two chameleons photographed for the book are panther chameleons from Madagascar: the 'plot' may read like fiction but the very simple coverage is all factual - and appealing with its colorful close-ups. Saxton Freymann and oost Elffers' FOOD FOR THOUGHT (0439110181, $14.95) uses garden veggies to emphasize five major concepts kids need to learn: shapes, colors, numbers, letters and opposites. Fun vegetable and fruit art accompany very simple one-page concept coverages, lending to an intriguing learning experience. Montgomery Alabama, Birmingham: these served as early fronts testing newly established civil rights laws, and Diane McWhorter has written A DREAM OF FREEDOM (0439576784 $19.95), which focuses on the movements of these battlegrounds, using the movements themselves--SNCC SNCC - Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, SCLC SCLC - Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (Cancer)
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
SCLC - John A. Shelburne Computer Learning Center
SCLC - San Carlos Lacrosse Club
SCLC - Sarapiqui Conservation Learning Center (Costa Rica)
SCLC - SCCP Connectionless Control (ANSI)
SCLC - School of Comparative Languages and Culture (Devi Ahilya University)
SCLC - Scientific Computing Laboratory Communication
--as a foundation for a logical analysis of civil rights issues, events, and historic rallies. Add vintage black and white photos of people and places and you have an unforgettable documentary for grades 4-7. Also unforgettable is Walter Dean Myers' ANTARCTICA: JOURNEYS TO THE SOUTH POLE (0439220017, $18.95), charting the journeys of early explorers who risked their lives to cross the Antarctic Circle Antarctic Circle, imaginary circle on the surface of the earth at 66 1-2°S lat., i.e., 23 1-2° north of the South Pole. It marks the southernmost point at which the sun can be seen at the winter solstice (about June 22) and the northernmost point of the southern polar regions at which the midnight sun is visible.. Primary source material--letters and journals--details the words and experiences of the explorers themselves.
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Author:Donovan, Diane C.
Publication:MBR Bookwatch
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Date:Jun 1, 2005
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