Living In A Biome

Text and photographs introduce the stream biome, describing its environment, plants, and animals that live in or near streams including fish, insects, and bears.

Animals adapt in a wide variety of environments. Their adaptations make it possible to eat, drink, and find shelter in places as diverse as the desert and the rain forest. In this colorful new Pebble Plus series, explore the diversity of these environments and read about the animals that make these places their homes. Pebble Plus offers the same high-quality nonfiction topics and low reading levels of Pebble Books in an enlarged, graphically enhanced format. This series explores and supports the standard The Living Environment: Interdependence of Life, as required by Benchmarks for Science Literacy: Project 2061. This series is leveled for early-intervention reading programs: Early Level to Newly Fluent Level.

Discover earth's natural neighborhoods on a colorful trek through the twelve terrestrial biomes of North and South America. Travel from the icy tundra, where the polar bear makes its home, through grasslands, and driest of deserts, to the tropical rain forest, the natural home of more than thirty million kinds of insects. From mountains to prairies, James M. Needham’s rich, exquisite illustrations highlight the smallest of details throughout each natural habitat, while Sneed B. Collard’s fascinating, fact-filled text present a detailed journey through earth's splendid ecosystems. Readers will love traveling around the world and learning about all the different homes that nature has to offer.

Text and photographs introduce the desert biome, describing its environment, plants, and animals such as camels, lizards, and snakes.

Text and photographs introduce the forest biome, describing its environment, plants, and animals such as foxes, birds, and insects.

Biomes are the major communities of plants and animals in our world. Children will love learning about life in everything from the chilly arctic tundra biome to dry, grassy savannahs.

Grasslands vary around the globe and are home to many life forms, including big cats and grazing animals. These sprawling fields are found on every single continent except Antarctica. Tropical savannahs and rolling prairies are just two different types of grasslands. Curious young learners are sure to discover that grasslands are a fascinating biome in this engaging title!

"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to life in a wetland. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--