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Wolves

CEBAdmin — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:05:04 +0000

Here is information on gray wolves (also called timber wolves) who live in packs that hunt in territories as large as 500 square miles. Pack leaders mate for life, and pack member hunt together, share food, and protect each other.

There is also information about the red wolf, and how all wolves are in danger of extinction and need to be protected. Included are four myths and legends, and a list of curious facts.

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Animals in Winter

Dayna Barendregt — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 22:24:06 +0000

Have you ever seen a butterfly in the snow? Probably not. Butterflies can’t survive cold weather, so when winter comes, many butterflies fly to warmer places. They migrate. Woodchucks don’t like cold weather either but they don’t migrate; they hibernate. Woodchucks sleep in their dens all winter long. Read and find out how other animals [...]

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Katy and the Big Snow

Dayna Barendregt — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:59:50 +0000

In Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton, the town of Geoppolis gets buried under feet and feet of snow after a huge storm. Thankfully Katy the red crawler tractor has her snow plow and can dig the city out! Follow Katy as she tunnels through snow to the police station, post office, railway station, telephone company, water department and more. Katy chug chug chugs along, clears the roads, and saves the day with her snowplow.

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White Snow, Bright Snow

Dayna Barendregt — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 03:24:34 +0000

The classic Caldecott Medal–winning picture book about a neighborhood transformed by a delightful snowfall, from the legendary picture book duo Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin.

When the first flakes fell from the grey sky, the postman and the farmer and the policeman and his wife scurried about doing all the practical things grown-ups do when a snowstorm comes. But the children laughed and danced, and caught the lacy snowflakes on their tongues.

All the wonder and delight a child feels in a snowfall is caught in the pages of this book—the frost ferns on the windowsill, the snowman in the yard and the mystery and magic of a new white world.

Roger Duvoisin’s pictures in soft blue half-tones with brilliant splashes of yellow and red emphasize the happiness and humor as well as the poetic quality of the text.

First published in 1947, this classic picture book won the 1948 Caldecott Medal and was the first of eighteen picture book collaborations by Alvin Tresselt and Roger Duvoisin.

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