Aldona Jonaitis, Author, American Museum of Natural History, Author, Stephen S. Myers, Photographer Museum $40 (269p) ISBN 978-0-295-96572-7
As the Northwest Coast Indian tribes fell victim to extermination and exploitation by white settlers, as well as to smallpox, venereal disease and alcoholism, acquisitive collectors and anthropologists rushed to British Columbia and Alaska, starting
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American Museum of Natural History, Author, Ellen Futter, Author, Ellen V. Futter, Foreword by ABRAMS $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8109-2969-2
In Rose Center for Earth and Space: A Museum for the Twenty-First Century, put together by the American Museum of Natural History, readers are treated to the facts and visual stimuli available at the museum's latest, greatest project. The book...
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American Museum of Natural History. Sterling, $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4549-2236-0
A dolphin calf explores the ocean in one of two books launching the First Discoveries series, created in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Brief, declarative sentences highlight details about dolphins (“The...
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Sterling. Sterling, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4549-3212-3
Wildlife photographs document the life of an elephant on the African savannah from newborn calf to 15-year-old adult. A gentle narrative details the calf’s early years spent protected by the herd, drinking her mother’s milk, and learning what it is...
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Illus. by Steve Jenkins. Sterling, $6.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4027-7722-6
Jenkins’s characteristically detailed collages take on the ever-popular subject of dinosaurs in a board book created in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Things begin promisingly, as different dinosaurs take
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American Museum of Natural History. Sterling, $7.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4549-0386-4
In this addition to the American Museum of Natural History’s series of oversize alphabet board books, 26 animals appear in photographs as they interact with large capital letters. A lime green tree frog uses the letter F as a launching pad, while a...
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American Museum of Natural History. Sterling, $7.95 (18p) ISBN 978-1-4549-1194-4
Like its animal and dinosaur-themed predecessors, this large-format addition to the AMNH ABC Board Books series uses the letters of the alphabet to introduce 26 creatures, this time of the insect variety. Photos of each insect are superimposed on...
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Will Lach, illus. by Jonny Lambert. Sterling, $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4549-1491-4
Ancient creatures use the declaration of the title to defiantly assert their non-dino status in a picture book distinguished by crisp, marble-textured graphics and lively rhymes, written in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History. “
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