Cambridge Springs Public Library

A little girl and her brother encounter fireflies, frogs, and bats as they wonder about things like the sky, moon, sun, and stars while they are exploring their nighttime surroundings.

Stories, Poems, Activities, and games introduce readers to the rich array of math to be found in our own backyards.

Despite all the signs of spring--sprouting ferns, a frog, and flowers--a little girl searches for the robin that means that spring has finally come.

As a grandmother tucks her grandson into bed, she quietly answers his questions about nature in rhyme.

A biography of a self-taught scientist who photographed thousands of individual snowflakes in order to study their unique formations.

"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt."--

Look for the SECRET hidden inside . . . Plants come in all shapes and sizes, but they go through the same stages as they grow. Using four common plants, young readers learn about a plant's life cycles. Simple text and colorful illustrations show the major phases of plant growth: seed, plant, flower, and fruit. Back matter offers more information on each plant, as well as on each stage of growth.

Sky gazers experience a total solar eclipse in this descriptive picture book about the wonders of this phenomenon. What happens during a solar eclipse? The sun vanishes. Light becomes dark. Day animals sleep and night animals wake. The moon takes over the sky. People stop what they're doing and together, they look up. The whole world changes for a few beautiful minutes.

"Vibrant photos and carefully leveled text take beginning readers on a trip to Mars, exploring its composition, features, and place in the solar system. Includes picture glossary and index."--

"Trees that once had leaves are bare. They're dressed instead in lacy white. Snow dusts their trunks and coats their limbs with flakes that outline them with light." Join a boy and his dog as they use their senses of sight and touch to identify seven common trees in the snow covered forest. Intricate illustrations and lyrical text make distinguishing different types of trees easy--even in the middle of winter, when only bare branches stand like skeletons...