Jason Chin
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe? -- Amazon
2) Grand Canyon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"An exploration of the Grand Canyon on a grand scale, as only Jason Chin can illustrate and explain"--
3) Gravity
Author
Language
English
Description
"What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity ... Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book.
4) Redwoods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read.
Author
Language
English
Description
Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched, this historical and scientific book tells the epic saga of the life of an island-its birth in fire, its rise to greatness, its decline, and, finally, the emergence of life on new islands....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.
7) Coral reefs
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl gets quite a surprise when the text of a library book she is reading transforms her surroundings into those of a teeming-with-life coral reef!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A book exploring the world of the very small, delving deep into the microscopic spaces just beneath our skin"--
9) Watercress
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a baby grows in her mother's tummy, a soon-to-be big sister and her family spend nine months preparing for the newest member of the family to arrive."--
13) Gravity
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The complex subject of gravity is made brilliantly accessible to young viewers in this unusual, innovative video adaptation of Jason Chin's picture book.
14) Redwoods
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests, his ordinary subway trip is transformed to include dinosaurs, ancient Roman citizens, and the forest itself!
15) Grand canyon
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the Grand Canyon, a cavernous wonder that₂s home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., maps (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a visual tribute to the evolving terrain and animals of the Galapagos that traces the island's fiery origins, its rise and decline as an environment, and the emergence of life on new islands. This book is the biography of a Galápagos island- from birth, through adolescence, to adulthood, and beyond.
Author
Publisher
Picarona, sello infantil de Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 26 cm
Language
Español
Description
Un niño de ocho años, de media, es cinco veces más alto que este libro
, pero sólo la mitad de alto que un avestruz. Y un avestruz es la mitad de alto que una jirafa, que solamente tiene la vigésima parte de la altura de una secuoya roja. ¿Y cómo de altas son las secuoyas en comparación con los grandes rascacielos? ¿Y con el monte Everest? ¿Y en relación con los planetas, estrellas, galaxias y el universo? El galardonado autor Jason Chin...
19) El Gran Cañón
Author
Publisher
Vista Higher Learning
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
53 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
A river winds through the landscape, eroding the rock for millions of years, shaping a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, as much as 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as... Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that live within its walls, Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through this wondrous place, discovering life both present...
Author
Language
English
Description
Charles Darwin first visited the Galápagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched, this historical and scientific book tells the epic saga of the life of an island? Its birth in fire, its rise to greatness, its decline, and, finally, the emergence of life on new islands....