Blast off into outer space and explore the mysteries of the red planet with Discovering Mars.
Did you know that Mars is twice the size of Earth’s moon? Or that it is home to the Valles Marineris—the largest canyon in our solar system? Blast off and explore the surface of the fourth planet from the Sun with Discovering Mars. This book is a complete scientific guide to Mars, including information on geography, atmosphere, unique landscape features, and more. Discover Mars’s moons Phobos and Deimos, learn all about unique polar spiders, and investigate past, present, and future life on Mars. Incredible illustrations and NASA imagery of Mars’s surface, craters, and volcanoes bring outer space right to your fingertips and let you explore the red planet like never before. Learn all about past missions to Mars, and take a sneak peek into future projects from NASA and beyond.
An avid traveler, Alexandra Lefort has lived in France, Scotland, Switzerland, and the U.S., and has now made her home in Vancouver, B.C. Passionate about exploration, she completed a PhD in planetary sciences at the University of Bern, Switzerland, focusing her academic research on the investigations of Martian water, with a particular interest for the question of habitability and extraterrestrial life. This interest in the origin and development of life also translates into artistic representation of terrestrial lifeforms and environments. A self-taught artist, her favorite media are photography, with a portfolio which includes wildlife portraits, macro photography, landscapes, and traditional drawing and painting, including graphite, pastels, acrylics, and digital art. She has designed several coins for the Royal Canadian Mint and has collaborated with paleoartist Julius Csotonyi on realistic depictions of prehistoric wildlife, including a mural for the 2015-2018 exhibit “Ice Age Bison Discovery: Our Frozen Past and Thawing Future” at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, and collaborative paintings in The paleoart of Julius Csotonyi, Why Did T. rex Have Short Arms?: And Other Questions about Dinosaurs, and Discovering Sharks.
Shark Flashcards
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Learn amazing facts about the world’s most incredible sharks with Shark Flash Cards!
Become a shark expert and learn dozens of facts and fascinating creatures about the coolest sharks to swim the seven seas. Kids of all ages will love learning about these apex predators, vividly illustrated by Julius Csotonyi. Swim through an ocean of shark species, from the infamous great white to the bizarre goblin shark. Dive deep into facts about these magnificent creatures, including their diet, where they live, how they hunt, and other species-specific information. Did you know?
- The largest whale shark ever measured came in at 40 feet long, making it the largest living fish in the world. - The basking shark can suck in as many as 2,000 tons of seawater per hour. - The megamouth shark has a silvery mouth that helps it attract prey right into its mouth. - The great white’s sense of smell is so well honed that it can sense a drop of blood in 100 liters of water. - The bigeye thresher has a tail nearly as long as the rest of its body, which it uses as a weapon to stun or kill prey. - The zebra horn shark rests facing the current and pumps water over its gills so it can breathe while staying still. - The Halmahera shark is a species of walking shark— it has leg-like pelvic and pectoral fins that help it move along the bottom of the ocean, which makes it look like it’s walking! - When it’s in danger, the sarawak pygmy swellshark gulps in seawater to inflate its stomach and make itself look bigger to scare off predators. - Female lemon sharks have a special homing sense that allows them to return to the same nursery area every time they give birth. - Shortfin mako sharks can travel up to 36 miles a day, and keep that pace for more than a month—that’s about the same distance as 41 marathons in a month! - Only four taillight shark specimens have ever been studied.
Study up on your shark facts then put your knowledge to the test with Shark Flashcards
Sticker Mosaics: Sharks
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Puzzle together 12 unique fin-tastic designs with Sticker Mosaics: Sharks.
In the most recent edition of the beloved Sticker Mosaics series, Sticker Mosaics: Sharks makes the underwater world come alive with stunning illustrations of everyone’s favorite marine predators from renowned artist Julius Csotonyi. No artistic skill is required to assemble these masterpieces—just match the stickers to their numbers in each design. Kids will be engaged with this activity book that encourages creativity and problem-solving skills. The designs are complicated enough to result in astonishing pictures, but simple enough that anyone of any age can complete them. And once you’ve created your masterpiece, the perforated pages make it easy to frame and display your finished work. Kids and adults alike will be fascinated with cool shark facts and discoveries, which can be found on the back of each design. From the fearsome great white to the hammerhead and goblin shark, you’ll be amazed by the way these fintastic works of art come alive in front of your eyes.
Sticker Mosaics: Dinosaurs
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Puzzle and sticker together 12 unique prehistoric designs with Sticker Mosaics: Dinosaurs.
There is no artistic skill required, just match the stickers to their numbers in each design and create a prehistoric masterpiece. This entertaining activity book encourages creativity and problem-solving skills. As a bonus, the back of each design includes cool dinosaur facts and discoveries. Artists and dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages will enjoy this engaging sticker book. Plus, this book has perforated pages for easy removal so you can frame your finished work.
The Ultimate Dinosaur Field Guide
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Travel back in time and walk alongside your favorite prehistoric creatures with The Ultimate Dinosaur Field Guide—created as if a paleontologist painted these illustrations and made these notes during a journey through the Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Cenozoic periods.
Encounter dinos of all shapes and sizes and note observations on each species’ appearance, size, diet, and more. Detailed watercolor illustrations will captivate young readers. This spectacular visual guide gets you up close and personal with the coolest prehistoric creatures to walk the Earth, including the T-rex, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Dimetrodon, Moschops, Archosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Smilosuchus, Allosaurus, Pterodactylus, and Velociraptor. Explore prehistoric landscapes with these incredible herbivores, ferocious carnivores, and other fascinating animals in The Ultimate Dinosaur Field Guide!
The Ultimate Shark Field Guide
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Swim alongside your favorite underwater creatures with The Ultimate Shark Field Guide—created as if a marine biologist painted these illustrations and made these notes while out collecting research.
Pick up the journal of a marine biologist and discover underwater mysteries with The Ultimate Shark Field Guide. Encounter sharks of all shapes and sizes and note observations on each species’ appearance, size, diet, and more. Detailed watercolor illustrations will captivate young readers. This spectacular visual guide gets you up close and personal with some of the fiercest creatures on Earth, including the bull shark, the great white, the Ganges river shark, the whale shark, and the great hammerhead. Explore underwater landscapes with these incredible animals in The Ultimate Shark Field Guide!
