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Animal books

Last Updated: 4-Dec-2015

This guide lists nonfiction children's books and young adult literature in the Cubberley Education Library about animals.

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Table of Contents

Recently received

Some bugs / words by Angela DiTerlizzi ; bugs by Brendan Wenzel.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3604 .I87 S66 2014
Lexile measure AD200L; Ages 4-8; Gr.PrK-K; Guided reading K
Animalium / illustrated [and curated] by Katie Scott ; written by Jenny Broom.
First U.S. edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL49 .B7464 2014 F
Lexile measure NC1260L; Ages 8-12
Cover image of Creature features
Creature features : 25 animals explain why they look the way they do / Steve Jenkins & Robin Page ; illustrated by Steve Jenkins.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL799.3 .J46 2014
Lexile measure AD580L; Ages 4-8; Gr.2-4
Handle with care : an unusual butterfly journey / Loree Griffin Burns ; Photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL544.2 .B79 2014
Ages 6-10
Mama built a little nest / Jennifer Ward ; illustrated by Steve Jenkins.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL676.2 .W382 2014
Ages 5-8; PrK-Gr.2
Cover image of Eye to eye
Eye to eye : how animals see the world / Steve Jenkins.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL949 .J46 2014
Lexile measure 1040; ages 6-12;  Gr.3-6
Feathers : not just for flying / Melissa Stewart ; illustrated by Sarah S. Brannen.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL697.4 .S74 2014
Ages 4-7; Gr.1-3
Neighborhood sharks : hunting with the great whites of California's Farallon Islands / Katherine Roy.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL638.9 .R685 2014
Lexile measure NC1330L; Ages 7-11, Gr.3-6
Cover image of Born in the wild
Born in the wild : baby mammals and their parents / Lita Judge.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL763 .J83 2014
Lexile measure AD900L; Ages 5-8; Gr.K-3
What's the difference? : an endangered animal subtraction story / by Suzanne Slade ; illustrated by Joan Waites.
Mount Pleasant, S.C. : Sylvan Dell Publishing, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL83 .S52 2010
Lexile Measure 960; Book level 5; Ages 4-8; Gr.Prk-3
Ultimate bug-opedia : the most complete bug reference ever : more than 400 amazing color photos throughout the book! / by Darlyne Murawski & Nancy Honovich.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL462.3 .M87 2013
Gr. 2-6
Cover image of Scaly spotted feathered frilled
Scaly spotted feathered frilled : how do we know what dinosaurs really looked like? / by the Sibert medalist Catherine Thimmesh.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QE861.5 .T475 2013
Lexile measure 1130; Ages 8-14; Gr.4-7
The animal book : a collection of the fastest, fiercest, toughest, cleverest, shyest--and most surprising--animals on earth / Steve Jenkins.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL49 .J436 2013
Lexile measure IG1030L; Ages 8-10; gr.3-6

Other books

Animal tracks and signs : [track over 400 animals from big cats to garden birds] / Jinny Johnson ; editorial consultant, [forward by] John Burton.
London : Marshall Editions, c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL768 .J636 2008
Ages 10-18; general nonfiction, gr. 6-10
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The beetle book / by Steve Jenkins.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL576.2 .J46 2012
Lexile measure AD980; Ages 5-12, gr. 2-5
Frogs / Nic Bishop.
New York, NY : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL668 .E2 B47 2008
Lexile measure 890; ages 5-12; book level 4.8; informational, gr. 2-4
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Island : a story of the Galápagos / Jason Chin.
1st ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QH198 .G3 C44 2012
Lexile measure 900; Ages 6-9, gr. 2-4.
The life cycle of an emperor penguin / Bobbie Kalman & Robin Johnson.
New York : Crabtree Pub., c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL696 .S473 K33 2007
Lexile measure 880; Ages 8-12; Book level 5.5; Nonfiction; Library has 6 copies, gr. 3-6.
Moonbird : a year on the wind with the great survivor B95 / Phillip Hoose.
1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL696 .C48 H66 2012
Awards: Robert F. Sibert Informational Award Honor Book (2013); YALSA Award for Excelleing in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist (2013); Lexile measure 1150; Ages 10 and up, gr. 7-12
One kingdom : our lives with animals : the human-animal bond in myth, history, science, and story / by Deborah Noyes.
Boston, [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL85 .N69 2006
Cover image of The penguin
The penguin : a funny bird / Béatrice Fontanel ; photos by André Fatras ; [translated by Elizabeth Uhlig].
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2004.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL696 .S473 F65813 2004
Lexile measure 820; Ages 5-10; Grade level 4.5; General nonfiction; Library has 6 copies, gr. 3-5
Saving the Baghdad Zoo : a true story of hope and heroes / by Kelly Milner Halls with William Sumner.
1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL76.5 .I722 B342 2010
Ages 8-12; Book level 7.1, gr. 4-7
When the wolves returned : restoring nature's balance in Yellowstone / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent ; photographs by Dan Hartman and Cassie Hartman.
New York : Walker : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL737 .C22 P385 2008
Lexile measure 1040; age 6-13; nonfiction, gr. 3-5
Cover image of Nat Geo wild animal atlas
Wild animal atlas : Earth's astonishing animals and where they live.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QH541.14 .W55 2010 F
Ages 8-12, gr. K-5
Wild tracks! : a guide to nature's footprints / Jim Arnosky.
New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL768 .A77 2008
Lexile measure 1040; ages 7-9; book level 5.5; informational, gr. 1-3
Wolfsnail : a backyard predator / Sarah C. Campbell ; photographs by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell.
1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL430.5 .S65 C36 2008
Ages 6-10; book level 4.4; nonfiction, gr. PreK-2