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Learn about living and nonliving things for beginning listeners.

Exploring life on Earth has never been simpler.

Sing a song of science! You know the song "Are You Sleeping?" Sing along with new words that explain the differences between living and nonliving things.

How did life begin? How many species are on our planet? Can we bring extinct species back to life? When it comes to life on our planet, there are a whole lot of questions we’re still trying to answer. Get ready to explore the unknown and discover how scientists are working to solve the mysteries of living things.

Animals are living things. Rocks are nonliving. Why? Let’s investigate the differences between living and nonliving things!

This book explores the concept of food, and why living things - i.e., animals, humans, and plants - need it.

Making a compost pile is a simple way to dispose of waste—like leaves, grass clippings, fruit, and vegetable peels—and turns them into healthy food for plants! Cece notices how nice Jane’s flowers are and wants to make a compost pile, too! Jane and Click show their friends how to make compost and you can learn too! What else is needed to help the compost decompose?

Introduces early listeners to environmentalist concepts including recycling and composting, and what they can do to help the environment. Features real-life examples of kids who have made a difference.

This books looks at what happens to old clothes when you throw them in the trash, and then looks at alternative things that the listener could make out of them instead of throwing the old clothes away.

Collection of audiobooks about living beings. An exploration of the diversity of living beings on our planet, from plants to animals.

In the history of life on this planet, 99.9 percent of all species have gone extinct. But a few have survived almost unchanged. Author Rebecca E. Hirsch introduces listeners to six living fossils, including the chambered nautilus, the horseshoe crab with its sticky blue blood, and venomous platypuses that sting, as well as a comprehensive explanation of evolution and extinction for listeners who may not be familiar with the terms yet.

Author Kevin Kurtz poses thought-provoking questions to help listeners determine if things are living or nonliving. For example, if most (but not all) living things can move, can any nonliving things move? As part of the Compare and Contrast series, this is a unique look at determining whether something is living or nonliving.

A plant's environment helps it grow. Weather, soil, and animals are important to a plant's survival. But do you know what happens to a plant when the seasons change? Or how earthworms help a plant's roots? Let's experiment to find out! Simple step-by-step instructions help listeners explore science concepts and analyze information.

Your mouth contains more bacteria than a dog's. Money is covered with germs that can make you sick. The germs in a sneeze travel only an arm's length. You may have heard these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven through research? Let's investigate 17 statements about the microscopic world and find out which ones are right, which ones are wrong, and which ones stump even the experts! Find out whether millions of tiny creatures are living under your bed!

The globetrotting naturalists of the 18th century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology. In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus's life and career in readable, relatable prose.

A timely and inspiring nonfiction guide for middle grade readers about the history of our fight against climate change, and how young people today are rising to action. Inspired by Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth: A Recent History, the acclaimed book that grew out of an August 2018 issue of the...

In this book, we will cover some of the amazing facts about the moons we know about, many of the amazing objects around our star the sun, and colonization ideas around the solar system. Even though mankind dreams of someday traveling to the nearest stars, our solar system has enough places to visit and colonize for thousands of years. This book lays out the structures and objects of the solar system in detail and discusses which parts of it we should colonize, build on, or mine.

Turn old plants and food scraps into nutrient-rich soil for your garden! This engaging text introduces emergent listeners to composting. Pairs with the fiction title Composting Pie.

Die Mülltonne ist schon wieder voll! Die Kinder Emma und Henry begleiten Sonja deshalb zum Wertstoffhof. Dort können sie nicht nur ihren Abfall entsorgen, sie erfahren auch alles über Recycling und Mülltrennung. Sonja zeigt den beiden Kindern, wie sie Lebensmittel retten und Müll vermeiden können. Gemeinsam kaufen sie im Unverpacktladen ein, retten alte Möbel, helfen beim Müllsammeln im Park und feiern schließlich eine Upcycling-Party mit tollen Basteltipps, bei der alle zum Mitmachen eingeladen sind.

El autor Kevin Kurtz hace preguntas muy bien pensadas, incitando a los oyentes a determinar si las cosas son seres vivos o no vivos. Por ejemplo, si la mayoría (pero no todos) de los seres vivos se pueden mover, ¿se pueden mover los seres que no son vivos? Como parte de la serie de libros de Comparación y Contraste, éste es una manera única de determinar si algo es un ser vivo o no vivo.