May 2017 list by Lora Koehler
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Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
by Kwame Alexander
Part of photographer Joel Sartore's lifelong project to photograph every animal in the world, with special attention given to disappearing and endangered species, this book features more than 40 unique animal portraits that invite kids to explore each creature's markings, textures and attributes in stunning detail.
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Creekfinding: a True Story
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
"Once upon a time a creek burbled up and tumbled across a prairie valley. It was filled with insects and brook trout that ate them, frogs that chirruped and birds watching for bugs and fish. This is a true story about a man named Mike who went looking for that creek long after it was buried under fields of corn. It is the story of how a creek can be brought back to life, and with it a whole world of nature. In the words of award-winning author Jacqueline Briggs Martin and the enchanting illustrations by Claudia McGehee, this heartening tale of an ecosystem restored in the Driftless Area of northeast Iowa unfolds in a way that will charm and inform young readers who are drawn to a good mystery, the wonders of nature--and, of course, big earth-moving machines"
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Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth
by Molly Bang
"The sun explains its role in the movement of water around the Earth, from the lifting of fresh water from the seas, to the movement of underwater currents that nourish the world's oceans. The sun has a hand in moving rivers of water in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states all around the Earth, enabling life to exist on our planet. But human beings are interfering in this natural cycle, unbalancing the amount of fresh water available."
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