● This set of engaging books includes stories of habitats changing due to earth processes (fast or slow) or by living things (including humans).
● The stories in this set incorporate environmental education, earth systems, and life science.
● 32 pages each.
● Includes the 9 books listed below:
● Animal Helpers: Aquariums - Where else can you stay dry while visiting aquatic animals from around the world?
● Follow this behind-the-scenes photographic journal as it leads you into the wondrous world of aquariums and the animal helpers who work there.
● Animal Helpers: Raptor Centers - When powerful birds of prey get sick or hurt, animal helpers at raptor centers come to the rescue!
● Dedicated staff treat injured, sick, and orphaned animals, then either return them to their native environments or find permanent homes at education and raptor centers for those that can't survive in the wild.
● Follow along in this photographic journal as staff and volunteers come together to care for these remarkable birds.
● Animal Helpers: Sanctuaries - What happens to exotic pets when owners realize they can no longer care for them, but they can't be returned to the wild?
● And what about big predators that get hurt or sick?
● This photographic journal takes readers behind the scenes at five nonprofit sanctuaries and rescue zoos, and one care farm, that have opened their doors and their hearts.
● Animal Helpers: Wildlife Rehabilitators - This photographic journal follows the staff at four different wildlife rehabilitation centers as they nurse wild animals back to health and release them back into the wild when possible.
● Animal Helpers: Zoos - Zoos are a great place to see and learn about the many native and exotic animals that inhabit this world.
● The zookeepers who feed and care for them may also be helping to conserve and protect whole species through breeding and head start programs.
● Follow the extraordinary duties of these unusual animal helpers in this behind-the-scenes photographic journal.
● Kali's Story: An Orphaned Polar Bear Rescue - Follow the rescue of orphaned polar bear Kali from the Inupiat village of Kali to the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage to his new home at the Buffalo Zoo in New York with Luna, a female polar bear.
● This photographic journey beautifully captures the remarkable development of the cub as he rapidly grows into the largest land carnivore on earth.
● The Lucky Litter: Wolf Pups Rescued from Wildfire - When a huge wildfire roared along the Funny River in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, firefighters rushed to the rescue and found a litter of five wolf pups in need of saving.
● With no wolf parents to help, zookeepers and vets at the Alaska Zoo made sure the babies grew into a healthy, happy pack.
● Follow this true story as the helpless pups move from the charred refuge to the Alaska Zoo, and finally to their forever home at the Minnesota Zoo.
● Primate School - Gorillas using iPads®, lemurs finger painting, squirrel monkeys blowing bubbles…these primates are pretty smart!
● Learn how diverse the primate family is, and some of the ways humans are teaching new skills to their primate cousins.
● Turtles in My Sandbox - When a mother diamondback terrapin lays eggs in a young girl's sandbox, the girl becomes a turtle-sitter to help the babies safely hatch.
● She raises the hatchlings until they become big enough to fend for themselves in the wild, then she releases them with the help of experts.
● A section at the back of the book includes terrapin fun facts and a turtle habitat craft.