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• Champion Chompers, Super Stinkers and Other Poems by Extraordinary Animals

  Ashman, Linda,

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  Facts and poems about amazing animals. Here’s the slowest mammal (the three-toed sloth): “Although I know / I’m very slow / (the pokiest around) / I take first prize / endurance-wise / for hanging upside down.”

• How the Sea Came to Be

  and All the Creatures in It

  Berne, Jennifer,

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  Countless lifeforms thrive in earth’s oceans: “But where most sea life lives is the bright sunlit zone / where the sun shines its rays and adds heat / in the shallow blue seas, in the oceans so wide / where light shimmers down hundreds of feet.”

• Galápagos

  Islands of Change

  Bulion, Leslie, 1958-

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  Poems and facts about the Galapagos Islands: “When steady trade winds sweep the vast Pacific / cool currents whoosh below / crossing thousands of miles / until crash! / they meet deep slopes / of volcanic isles / and rush uphill!...”

• In the Woods

  Elliott, David, 1947-

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  Forest creature poems. Here's the Opossum: “Your rattish snout / your naked tail / dragging on the woodland trail / You’re not a classic beauty / You bump along the woodland track / your babies clinging to your back / There’s beauty, too, in duty”

• ICE!

  Poems About Polar Life

  Florian, Douglas,

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  Cool poems about life at the poles: “The Arctic fox – a crafty guy / it’s cunning, clever, smart, and sly / Its four fox feet have furry soles / to tunnel into burrow holes / Its bushy thick fur tail is built / to warm him like a cozy quilt.”

• Counting in Dog Years and Other Sassy Math Poems

  Franco, Betsy,

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  Poems + Math: “My Grandpa Dan is 56 / His beagle just turned 8 / In doggy years their ages match / Hold on-I'll set you straight / Since dogs age faster than we do / we use a different gauge / Count 7 years per canine year / to find their human age”

• Ice Cycle

  Poems About the Life of Ice

  Gianferrari, Maria, 1964-

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  All kinds of ice are introduced in poetry and pictures: “Liquid water / meets freezing air / On wood / ice threads / grow hairs / On plants / ice petals / form flowers / In soil / ice spikes / narrow needles.”

• Fur, Feather, Fin

  All of Us Are Kin

  Lang, Diane,

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  Animal groups in poetry: “Milk to drink and furry hide / mammals keep warm from inside / Their babies are not hatched, they’re born / no matter where their fur is worn / All need a parent when they’re new / like humans – yes, we’re mammals too!”

• Thank You, Earth

  a Love Letter to Our Planet

  Sayre, April Pulley,

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  A poetic tribute to our amazing planet, with excellent photographs: “Thank you for the water / and those that float / for slippery seaweed and stone / Thank you for mountains and minerals / that strengthen bills and bone...”

• Science Verse

  Scieszka, Jon

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  Science facts & classic rhymes: I’m a little mealworm short & wiggly / Here’s my antenna cute & jiggly / Now I am a pupa squat & white / How did this happen? I’m a sight / Now I am a beetle What is this? / I really hate Metamorphosis.

• Dear Treefrog

  Sidman, Joyce,

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  A girl makes new friends; one is a boy, and one is a treefrog: “Anything is possible / among the / soft spring fronds / and singing / waters / of this wide green world / when you are / a treefrog / or when / you are looking / for one”

• Trees

  Haiku From Roots to Leaves

  Walker, Sally M.,

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  Brief poems convey the science and wonder of trees...in just three lines and seventeen syllables each! Seeds: “crack! a seed hull splits! / a thin root tip emerges / and grabs hold of life “

• The Day the Universe Exploded My Head

  Poems to Take You Into Space and Back Again

  Wolf, Allan,

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  Fun poems about the solar system and beyond: “Everybody look at me! / It’s me. The planet Mercury. / As planets go I’m number one / because I’m closest to the sun / I may be small, but I stand tall; / My axis barely moves at all...”