Oso polar, oso polar, que es ese ruido?

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Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? is the companion book to the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin's simple, rhythmic text invites young listeners to chant along with the sounds of the animals in the zoo, from braying zebras to trumpeting elephants. Eric Carle's vibrant and imaginative illustrations are the perfect match for the playful text, keeping children enthralled reading after reading. This new Spanish translation brings Bill Martin and Eric Carle's book to a whole new audience. Spanish-speaking and bilingual children will now be able to share the joy and magic of the delightful Polar Bear and his friends at the zoo.

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Fun book about animal sounds.......2007-02-04

We have five Eric Carle books (some English some Spanish) and this is my 18-mo-old's favorite. I think he likes the repetition and rhythm. He brings it to me all the time. The illustrations are simple, colorful and inviting.

From book:
"Oso polar, oso polar, que es ese ruido?
Es un leon que ruge en mi oido.
Leon, leon, que es ese ruido?
Es un hipopotamo que resopla en mi oido.
Hipopotamo, hipopotamo, que es ese ruido?..."

Tibet's Hidden Wilderness: Wildlife and Nomads of the Chang Tang Reserve

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Tibet's Hidden Wilderness: Wildlife and Nomads of the Chang Tang Reserve
George B. Schaller
Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
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Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe

ASIN: 0810938936

Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife And Tourists in Yellowstone

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Please DON'T feed the bears!!

Do (Not) Feed the Bears: The Fitful History of Wildlife And Tourists in Yellowstone
Alice Wondrak Biel , and Alice Wondrak Biel
Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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ASIN: 0700614583

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It was a familiar sight at Yellowstone National Park: traffic backed up for miles as visitors fed bears from their cars. It may have been against the rules, but park officials were willing to turn a blind eye if it kept the public happy. But bear feeding eventually became too widespread and dangerous to everyone-including the bears-for the National Park Service (NPS) to allow it any longer.

As one of the park's most beloved and enduring symbols, the Yellowstone bears have long been a flashpoint for controversy. Alice Wondrak Biel traces the evolution of their complex relationship with humans-from the creation of the first staged wildlife viewing areas to the present-and situates that relationship within the broader context of American cultural history. Early on, park bears were largely thought of as performers or surrogate pets and were routinely fed handouts from cars, as well as hotel garbage dumped at park-sanctioned "lunch counters for bears." But as these activities led to ever-greater numbers of tourist injuries, and of bears killed as a result, and as ideas about conservation and the NPS mission changed, the agency refashioned the bear's image from cute circus performer to dangerous wild animal and, eventually, to keystone inhabitant of a fragile ecosystem.

Drawing on the history of recorded interactions with bears and providing telling photographs depicting the evolving bear-human relationship, Biel traces the reaction of park visitors to the NPS's efforts-from warnings by Yogi Bear (which few tourists took seriously) to the increasing promotion of key ecological issues and concerns. Ultimately, as the rules were enforced and tourist behavior dramatically shifted, the bears returned to a more natural state of existence.

Biel's entertaining and informative account tracks this gradual "renaturalization" while also providing a cautionary tale about the need for careful negotiation at the complex nexus of tourists, bears, and all things wild.

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Please DON'T feed the bears!!.......2007-08-09

I bought this book about a year ago. I feel this book is easy to read, well written and told the story of the history of the black and grizzly bears of Yellowstone National Park. I highly commend the author for not glossing over some of the ugly past issues of bear policy. I laughed and cried at the ineptness of park managers when learning to deal with bears and the public. I did not know a lot about the past bear management in Yellowstone and found it heartbreaking to learn how the bears have been mismanaged in the park, from feeding platforms to letting visitors hand feed bears by the roadside. I was shocked to learn the numbers of bears that have been destroyed because of these issues!! I am glad that the park has gone full circle and now cherishes the natural bear and are working to do all they can to preserve bears and relocate them rather than destroy them. When you see a bear, please don't feed it.

Mother to Tigers (Junior Library Guild Selection)

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Mother to Tigers - George Ella Lyon
Cute Book
Heartwarming and inspiring
Frostburg State Univ.'s Children's Literature Centre

Mother to Tigers (Junior Library Guild Selection)
George Ella Lyon
Manufacturer: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 068984221X

Book Description

You are a Bengal tiger cub,

one of three -- Dacca, Rajpur, Raniganj -- abandoned by your mother.

You are so cold and thin that someone with kind hands puts you on a heating pad and sits by you for hours, moistening your mouth with milk.

When you give a weak cry and look up, there is a human face almost crying too.

Your new mother is Helen Delaney Martini, who has already raised a lion cub in her New York apartment. Tigers in the bathtub will be no problem for her and her husband, Fred.

This remarkable book -- strikingly striped as tigers are, sympathetically spoken as any child could wish -- tells the story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper.

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Mother to Tigers - George Ella Lyon.......2005-02-10

This is the story of Helen Martini, the first woman zookeeper. Helen and her husband (an employee of the Bronx Zoo), took in tiger cubs to care for them. This led to Helen opening the first animal nursery in a zoo. She is credited with raising 27 cubs, when no cubs had successfully been raised in a zoo before. This book is easy for students to connect with, because children of all ages have prior knowledge with animals and zoos. The author's illustrations depict animals bringing joy and color to the character's lives to fill the void of their not being able to have children. This book would be a great addition to a theme unit on women's history.

Cute Book.......2004-10-01

I just read this book yesterday. I thought it was both cute and interesting. I have always found that books involving people caring for animals in trouble are good and this one is great for younger kids.

Heartwarming and inspiring.......2003-04-11

Warmly written, based on fact, beautiful art, great for girls

Frostburg State Univ.'s Children's Literature Centre.......2002-11-14

This remarkable book tells the story of Helen Martini, founder of the Bronx Zoo's animal nursery in 1944 and its first woman zookeeper. Helen and her husband, Fred really wanted children. They lost their first child and Helen couldn't have any more. They began to fill their lives with pets. Fred found a job in the Bronx Zoo. He often took home some baby tigers and Helen cared for them just like she would care for a human baby. This lead to her setting up a nursery at the zoo to care for lots of baby animals. This story will be adored by both children and adults.

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Good Way for Kids to Learn Some Spanish

¡Marimba!: Animales From A to Z
Pat Mora
Manufacturer: Clarion Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0618194533

Book Description

Once a year, the singing monkey croons the keepers to sleep at the zoo. It's time for the animales to dance to the marimba's ting-tong! In this bilingual a-b-c book, gorillas strum guitars and pandas juggle papayas, as one by one the animals join in to create a rollicking fiesta. But what happens when the zoo keepers finally wake up? Infused with Latin American flavor, MARIMBA! is a fun-filled introduction to the Spanish language for the youngest picture book reader.

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Good Way for Kids to Learn Some Spanish.......2007-06-22

With "¡Marimba!" El Paso author Pat Mora says she wanted to create an alphabet book that incorporates both English and Spanish. She found twenty-six cognates, or words that are similar in both languages, and arrived at this colorful story of something special that happens at the zoo when a frisky monkey begins to play his marimba. At the back of the book is a translation and pronunciation guide. Listed for grades K through 3, but my 6-year-old grandson enjoyed it as well.

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one of my favorites!!!
A Unique Storytelling Experience--Not to be missed!
So beautiful and poignant - Not only for children

Eye of the Wolf
Daniel Pennac
Manufacturer: Candlewick
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: B000KHXBPY
Release Date: 2003-02-01

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one of my favorites!!!.......2004-06-24

Eye of the Wolf is a very interesting book. It told lots of different stories which ended up coming together in the end. I liked how the boy closed one of his eyes to make the wolf not feel sad. I also like how the boy could talk to animals and had relationships with all different kinds of animals from camels to wolves and cheetahs. The wolf's story was sad but ended up happy at the end. He lost his family in the wild and then lost his zoo family, too. But the boy became his friend and helped the wolf feel better. I recommend this book for everyone!! (The illustrations in the book are terrific and capture what is going on in the story!)

A Unique Storytelling Experience--Not to be missed!.......2003-10-21

Africa has a story to tell, and so does the wolf he visits every day at the zoo. At first, the wolf is annoyed by Africa's constant visits to his cage. He wonders why he is there and what he is looking for, so he stares back at Africa, challenging him to leave and let the wolf return to his loneliness.

But by looking into each other's eyes, the two are able to understand each other's stories and recognize how their lives relate to one another.

The wolf's story is about the family that he lost-his mother, sisters, and brothers-and how he came to live behind the cage at the zoo as a sacrifice to his sister. Africa's story is about the loss of his family and his life as an orphan, a shepherd, and now finally an adopted boy with a last name. But when told simultaneously, the stories suddenly become about looking for home, about being needed, and about being important and meaningful, no matter where you are.

What a unique storytelling adventure! The meeting between Africa and Blue Wolf is an unfamiliar way to open a story, and the reader is almost tempted to set down the book. But soon enough, Pennac creates an interaction between the two that is magical and enchanting and that leads the reader into two dynamic worlds.

There is an unexpected depth to Africa's existance, and his mystical ways with animals is a brilliant contrast to the very human emotions of Blue Wolf. As Blue Wolf tells his story of daring rescue and escape, he becomes a powerful reminder of all that is beautiful in nature. There was no way to anticipate the manner in which all the characters come together in the end or the final power that Africa and Blue Wolf have upon each other, but it is fascinating, indeed. The language is specific and flows beautifully together as an extension of Africa's famous storytelling abilities.

So beautiful and poignant - Not only for children.......2003-02-22

I read the book in other language, i.e. Korean, and with other
illustration. However, this is a really beautiful story whatever language it is written in. There is an wolf who has been captured by men and put into a zoo. When he was caught, his one eye was injured, but he didn't mind because he decided that one eye is sufficient to see the sad, miserable world of men-to his eye, men are as sad and miserable as the captured animals in the zoo. There is a boy from Africa who stands in front of the wolf and look at him directly in his one remaining eye. He himself has been through a lat of sad incidents all over the Africa - in yellow, grey, and green ones. What do they see each other's eyes ? How does the wolf change his mind and accept there are something even in this miserable world worth watching with two eyes ? It's a so beautiful and poignant story (and I don't want to spoil your chance to find it^^), worth reading over and over again.

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Realistic pictures
Wording is poetically written
This book is better than a one-star!
"Welcome to the Ice House" by Jane Yolen

Welcome to the Ice House
Jane Yolen
Manufacturer: Putnam Juvenile
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Realistic pictures.......2006-01-28

I have read the other reviews and understand why others have problems with the text. The pictures alone are WONDERFUL - so realistic and makes you feel you are right there with her use of color. I HAVE heard of all the animals she mentions as I teach kindergarten. These are very familiar animals used in other Arctic books I have read to my kids. I will be truthful in that the text doesn't lend itself to be asked "TO READ AGAIN AND AGAIN!" If you want the book for the pictures, you will be pleased. The book's entirity I would leave for first grade through fourth who could study the use of her wordings in the story. I rated the book higher because it is a very good book if used with the right age of children.

Wording is poetically written.......2005-10-02

I gave this book a 3 because my 5yr old loves it. He's fascinated with the animals only. He will not sit through the entire book as I read to him. I think partly because the words are too poetically written for a young age group. This is one book that he can't memorize page by page. Some of the animals in the book, I've never heard before (for instance, caribou, lemming, ptarmigan.) The book isn't exciting to me and this is one I dread reading to my son.

This book is better than a one-star!.......2001-06-25

A very quick read, granted, but the illustrations are beautiful. This is the kind of book youngsters will want to look at again and again. I haven't compared it to Yolen's other books, so maybe I would give it less, but for now it deserves a 4.

"Welcome to the Ice House" by Jane Yolen.......2000-03-25

Owning wonderful "Alphabeastiary" and "Owl Moon" by Yolen mistakenly led us to this book. Text is barely verbal and vacant, certainly not any great addition to our science collection, as Booklist review tends to indicate. Splitting a sentence between four pages is not our idea of reading. Any parents who are reading for literary enhancement should find something else. The star we give is for illustrations, nothing more. The illustrator should have put as much effort into the interior as she did the cover. Too bad, overall disappointment.

Animal Sounds For Baby (revised) (What-a-Baby Series)

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The Greatest Infant Board Book

Animal Sounds For Baby (revised) (What-a-Baby Series)
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Manufacturer: Cartwheel
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Binding: Board book

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The Greatest Infant Board Book.......1999-12-04

My 11 month old son received this book as a gift from his Godparents when he was about 5 months old. He loves it! It's his favorite board book! He actually turns the pages as I read the animal sounds to him! The pictures are vibrant and it is a great depiction of African American children!

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Wally Walrus (Let's Read Together)
Barbara Derubertis
Manufacturer: Kane Press
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Binding: Paperback

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In Wally Walrus the focus is on the vowel team sounds of al, aw, au, and augh. Wally Walrus is scared of bully Squawky Hawk...until Wally wins him over in a spectacular way. 32 pages, 6 1/2 x 9, Audio Cassette: Side A: Read-Along, Side B: Listening, Ages 4-8

El Regaldo Del Lenador/ the Woodcutter's Gift

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El Regaldo Del Lenador/ the Woodcutter's Gift
Lupe Ruiz-Flores
Manufacturer: Pinata Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1558854894

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One day, a terrible thunderstorm knocked down the giant mesquite tree that grew in the town square. After the storm, the townspeople gathered to gawk at the large obstruction blocking the street. They weren't sure what to do with it, but they all agreed that the wood was good for nothing except a fire.

But the woodcutter TomÃ¡s sees something in the huge tree that the rest of the townsfolk don't. "The beauty of this tree is not on the outside but on the inside," TomÃ¡s tells them. In the following days, everyone watches curiously as the woodcutter carves and chips and whittles the wood into blocks. At one point, he moves the chunks into his shed, increasing everyone's curiosity. What could the woodcutter be doing with all that lumber?

Finally, TomÃ¡s calls the townsfolk together to see his creations: a wonderful collection of life-sized animals for the children to enjoy. Children and adults alike are thrilled with their private zoo! But a few weeks later the woodcutter is visited by strangers from a folk-art museum who want to buy the pieces for their collection. Will TomÃ¡s sell the town's new zoo animals so that others can enjoy them too?

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