Title:
The atlas of migrating plants and animals / Matt Sewell ; written by Megan Lee.
ISBN:
9781648961168
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Hudson, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2022.
Physical Description:
159 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
General Note:
"First published in 2021 in Great Britain by Pavilion Children's Books."--Colophon.
Contents:
Cougar -- Basking shark -- Common wildebeest -- Plains zebra -- Swift parrot -- Orange-bellied parrot -- Sockeye salmon -- Adélie penguin -- Violet -- Amur falcon -- Wandering glider -- Wild Bactrian camel -- Pronghorn -- Straw-colored fruit bat -- Lemming -- Red knot sandpiper -- Bornean elephant -- Corn leaf aphid -- Amazing migrations -- Short-eared owl -- Northern elephant seal -- Bohemian waxwing -- Painted lady butterfly -- Wandering albatross -- Mule deer -- Redstart warbler -- Leatherback sea turtle -- Green darner dragonfly -- Amazing migrations -- Christmas Island red crab -- Alpine ibex -- Common cuckoo -- Pacific bluefin tuna -- Pacific walrus -- Bar-headed goose -- Burrowing owl -- Water moccasin -- Osprey -- Burdock -- Amazing migrations -- Humpback whale -- Arctic tern -- Golden jellyfish -- Wild cherry -- European eel -- Barn swallow -- Monarch butterfly -- Bar-tailed godwit -- Nathusius' pipistrelle bat -- Blue whale -- Cerulean warbler -- Amazing migrations -- Great white shark -- Hen harrier -- Bornean bearded pig -- Caribou -- Gray wolf -- Canada warbler -- Dandelion -- European toad -- Saltwater crocodile -- Sea lamprey -- Amazing migrations -- Cownose ray -- Desert locust -- Eurasion curlew -- Saiga antelope -- Sacred kingfisher -- Coconut -- Rufous hummingbird -- Zooplankton.
Summary:
"Curious young readers will love learning about the migration patterns of plants and animals from all around the world in this colorful children's atlas, richly illustrated in Matt Sewell's signature watercolors. Featuring mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, and plants from all continents and nearly all oceans, this informative collection will teach young nature lovers about migration in its many forms. Grade-school children will discover how creatures navigate the planet when they encounter climate change, sun, chemicals, the Earth's magnetic field, and the changing seasons in this illustrated reference book. Follow flocks of arctic terns on their annual 24,855-mile journey between the Earth's poles. Join the monarch butterflies on their famous pilgrimage, upwards of 3,000 miles, from Canada to Mexico. Marvel at wildebeests, humpback whales, salmon, dragonflies, and more, as they travel around the globe and battle the Earth's toughest conditions to survive." -- Provided by publisher.
Added Author:
OCLC Number:
on1263663931
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
