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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The Jungle Book from 1894 is a collection of Rudyard Kipling's stories that give moral lessons through the personification of animals. The most famous of the stories are the three detailing the adventures of Mowgli, the abandoned "man cub" who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. Also well-known is the tale of a heroic mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and the story of a young elephant handler in Toomai of the Elephants. Due
...Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Cryptozoology is the study of animals that may or may not be real: familiar animals like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, and those that are less familiar like the Marozi of Kenya, the Orang-pendek of Sumatra and the Thylacine of Tasmania. Meet these and more in this introduction to cryptozoology.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates how the Jade Emperor chose twelve animals to represent the years in his calendar. Also discusses the Chinese calendar, zodiac, the qualities associated with each animal, and what animal rules the year in which the reader was born.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this version of "The Little Red Hen," set at a farm, the other animals eat and play while the little gray bunny does all the chores in the barn, until one day he teaches them a lesson about laziness.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the traditional Russian folk tale in which a little mouse makes a perfect home in the woods. One by one other animals are welcomed to share the home until the little house is full. All the animals live happily together until the day a bear wants to squeeze in too.
17) Ancient night
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ancient Night is a twist on two Nahuatl traditions: the rabbit which the Feathered Serpent placed on the moon, and Yaushu, the Lord Opossum who ruled the earth before humans came, and who stole fire from the gods to create the sun. Award-winning author David Bowles has written a poetic text - and carefully researched backmatter - to accompany David's lush illustrations and story."--
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