Arcadia Public Library

Meet the biggest bird in the world -- the ostrich!

Details how and when the Sun formed, what it is, its size, and why it is so important to our solar system and life on Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

"Meet the biggest rodent in the world--the capybara...Readers will learn all that is super-size about this cute mammal."--

Traces the steps taken in creating a pencil, including baking a mixture of graphite and clay for the pencil lead, carving grooves into cedar slats to hold the lead, forming the slats into pencils, and then adding paint, lacquer, and stamps.

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of nurse sharks.

Traces the steps taken in creating fireworks, describing how a firework includes three main parts surrounded by paper, how a flammable mixture is combined with other chemicals to create colors, and how the charges and fuses are placed to ignite the firework.

Describes the various stages in the life cycle of a butterfly, from the egg to the emergence of the adult butterfly.

"Meet the biggest rodent in the world--the capybara...Readers will learn all that is super-size about this cute mammal."--

Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the world's tallest mammal, the giraffe.