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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1999

Biography

Snowflake Bentley

Earth and Space Science

Environment and Ecology

Life Science

All about turkeys
Autumn leaves
Bones : our skeletal system
Buried treasure : roots & tubers
Chirping crickets
Garden
Home at last : a song of migration
Lemurs
Muscles : our muscular system
National Audubon Society first field guide. Birds
National Audubon Society first field guide. Wildflowers
One bean
Our wet world : exploring earth's aquatic ecosystems
Penguins!
Safari
Soaring with the wind : the bald eagle
Spectacular spiders
Why does the cat do that?

Science-Related Careers

What is a scientist?

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1998

Committee's Choice

A drop of water : a book of science and wonder

Biography Plus

Environment and Ecology

Animals you never even heard of
Back to the wild
Before & after : a book of nature timescapes
The big rivers : the Missouri, the Mississippi, and the Ohio
Destination : rain forest
The most beautiful roof in the world: exploring the rainforest canopy
Project puffin : how we brought puffins back to Egg Rock
Turtle bay

Integrated Science

Life Science

About mammals
The brain : our nervous system
The burrow book
Cheetahs
City foxes
Everybody has a bellybutton : your life before you were born
Gulls--gulls--gulls
Hawk highway in the sky : watching raptor migration
A log's life
Pigeons
Simon & Schuster children's guide to insects and spiders
Tale of a tadpole
There's still time : the success of the endangered species act
Thinking about ants
Watching water birds
What do you do when something wants to eat you?
What's a penguin doing in a place like this?
Wild flamingos
Wolves
Yikes! : your body, up close!

Paleontology

Physical Science

Big bang
The Kingfisher young people's book of oceans
Lightning

Science-Related Careers

I want to be a veterinarian
I want to be an engineer

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1997

Anthropology and Paleontology

Biography

American environmental heroes
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: first to see microscopic life
Isaac Newton: the greatest scientist of all time

Earth Science

Earthquakes
Highest, longest, deepest: a foldout guide to the world's record breakers
Hurricanes : Earth's mightiest storms
Weather watch: forecasting the weather

Environment and Ecology

Compost! growing gardens from your garbage
Ecology
Nearer nature
Rain forest
Squishy, misty, damp & muddy: the in-between world of wetlands
You animal!
Yuck! a big book of little horrors

Integrated Science

Echoes for the eye : poems to celebrate patterns in nature
Incredible comparisons
This title has been republished as part 1 of the "Factastic book of comparisons"

Life Science

All about deer
Animal action ABC
Animal homes
Animals: black and white
Babies
Bat
Beneath blue water: meetings with remarkable deep-sea creatures
Blood
The desert fox famly book
A desert scrapbook : dawn to dusk in the Sonoran Desert
Flight of the golden plover: the amazing migration between Hawaii and Alaska
Fox
From caterpillar to butterfly
The heart : our circulatory system
Journey of the red wolf
Mute swans
The naked mole-rat mystery: scientific sleuths at work
No more dodos: how zoos help endangered wildlife
Over under in the garden: an alphabet book
Simon & Schuster children's guide to birds
The sunflower family

Physical Science

Black holes
The story of oxygen
Waves: the electromagnetic universe

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1996

Biography

Ordinary genius: the story of Albert Einstein
Taking flight : my story

Earth Sceicne

Caves
The children's atlas of natural wonders
Orion, the Hunter
Our patchwork planet : the story of plate tectonics
Science on the ice: an Antarctic journal

Environment and Ecology

An American safari : adventures on the North American prairie
Angel Falls: a South Ameircan journey
The case of the mummified pigs : and other mysteries in nature
Fire in the forest: a cycle of growth and renewal
I see animals hiding
Raptor rescue! : an eagle flies free
Richard Orr's nature cross-sections
Summer ice : life along the Antarctic peninsula
The summer sands
Sweet Magnolia
The threatened Florida black bear
Trees and forests
Woods
Cactus desert

Fiction

Life Science

African animals ABC
All about owls
Apes
Biggest, strongest, fastest
Bones
The book of North American owls
Butterfly
Butterfly story
The concise encyclopedia of the human body
Coyotes
Sharks
Do you know the difference?
Eagles of America
Elephants swim
Eyes
Have you seen trees?
Insects
The life and times of the honeybee
Lucky mouse
Metamorphosis: animals that change
Nature in your backyard : simple activities for children
Nights of the pufflings
Puffins climb, penguins rhyme
Rhino
Lion
Sea turtles
Sharks
Sky tree : seeing science through art
Trees
The visual dictionary of the skeleton
What is a reptile?
Who eats what? : food chains and food webs
How mountains are made
Who lives here?

Medicine and Medical Research

Genetic engineering
Living with asthma
Medicine
The voices of AIDS

Paleontology

How do we know dinosaurs existed?
The search for the origin of birds

Physical Science

It's all in your brain
What's smaller than a pygmy shrew?

Technology and Engineering

Catastrophe! : great engineering failure--and success
Flush!: treating wastewater
Nature got there first

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1995

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Frozen man
Earthworms: underground farmers
Spotted owl: bird of the ancient forest
The iceman
The search for Seismosaurus: the world's longest dinosaur

Biography

Barbara McClintock: alone in her field
Jack Horner: living with dinosaurs
Champion for children's health: a story about Dr. S. Josephine Baker
Liftoff!: an astronaut's dream
Marie Curie: discoverer of radium
Charles Darwin: naturalist
William Harvey: discoverer of how blood circulates

Earth Science

Comets, meteors, and asteroids
Deep-sea vents: living worlds without sun
Mountains
Thunderstorm!
Winter across America
Zero gravity

Environment and Ecology

Ancient ones : the world of the old-growth Douglas fir
The eagle and the river
The golden lion tamarin comes home
Mangrove wilderness : nature's nursery
Sanctuary: the story of Three Arch Rocks
Sand and fog: adventures in southern Africa
The Serengeti migration: Africa's animals on the move
Squish!: a wetland walk

Fiction

Julie

Life Science

All about alligators
America's prairies
A beekeeper's year
A caribou journey
Deer and elk
The home
The human body
Eyewitness natural world
Flies are fascinating
Hunter in the snow: the lynx
Lobsters: the gangsters of the sea
My five senses
Oceanarium
Outside and inside birds
Outside and inside spiders
Snakes
A swim through the sea
This way home
Those amazing ants
Watch them grow
Your dog's wild cousins

Physical Science

Technology and Engineering

Science to the rescue

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1994

About Animals

Animals that glow
Apes
The astonishing armadillo
Elephant moon
Elephants
The endangered Florida panther
The eyes of the gray wolf
A gathering of garter snakes
Here is the Arctic winter
Hiding out : camouflage in the wild
Hoofbeats: the story of a thoroughbred
Kangaroos on location
Let's get a pet
Playful slider : the North American river otter
Rabies
Salamanders
Shadows of night : the hidden world of the little brown bat
A time for babies
Vultures
Wild, wild West: wildlife habitats of western North America
Also known as "Wild, wild West : western wildlife habitat"
Wolves
The world of animals

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Dougal Dixon's dinosaurs
Mummies & their mysteries

Biography

Charles Darwin: revolutionary biologist
Jackal woman: exploring the world of jackals
Listening to crickets : a story about Rachel Carson
Marie Curie and her daughter Irène

Botany

Backyard sunflower
Flowers for you: blooms for every month
Jack-in-the-pulpit

Chemistry and Mineralogy

Environment and Conservation

Antonio's rain forest
Oil spills: damage, recovery, and prevention
The Sierra Club kid's guide to planet care & repair
Ten tall oaktrees
The year of fire

Geology and Meteorology

The big storm
Investigating the ozone hole
The Visual dictionary of the universe
The visual dictionary of dinosaurs
The visual dictionary of the earth

The Human Body and Sexuality

The body atlas
Dr. Ruth talks to kids : where you came from, how your body changes, and what sex is all about

Nature and Life

Capturing nature: the writings and art of John James Audubon
Evolution
Land of dark, land of light: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
They came from DNA
Voices of the wild
Where the great bear watches
Winter fox
Winter walk
Wolf island

Ocean and Shore Life

A beach for the birds
Fish fish fish
Killer whales
Lobster boat
My visit to the aquarium
this book is also part of the kit ”Oceans of the world”
Penguins at home: gentoos of Antarctica
Sea jellies: rainbows of the sea
Seal journey
The search for the right whale
Sharks: challengers of the deep
Story of a dolphin
Tentacles : the amazing world of octopus, squid, and their relatives
Tracks in the sand
Waiting for the whales

Physics, Technology, and Engineering

The disaster of the Hindenburg: the last flight of the greatest airship ever built
Fly! : a brief history of flight illustrated
Get the message : telecommunications in your high-tech world
Plane song

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1993

Animals

American bison
Animals don't wear pajamas : a book about sleeping
The armadillo
The baby zoo
Barn owls
Bears
Bees dance and whales sing: the mysteries of animal communication
The beetle
The spider
Breathtaking noses
Dancers in the garden
An elephant never forgets its snorkel: how animals survive without tools and gadgets
Elephants calling
Feathers
The Galapagos tortoise
Going to sleep on the farm
Guinea pigs
House sparrows everywhere
Hummingbirds: jewels in the sky
Jake: a labrador puppy at work
The kitten book
Ladybug
Look out for turtles!
Monarch butterflies : mysterious travelers
Our yard is full of birds
Pelicans
The raggedy red squirrel
Small and furry animals: a watercolor sketchbook of mammals in the wild
Snakes
Somewhere today
Swimming with sea lions and other adventures in the Galápagos Islands
Tasmanian devil
Wonderful worms

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

Buried in ice
Digging up Tyrannosaurus rex
Macmillan children's guide to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals
Where to find dinosaurs today

Biography

Galileo
Galileo and the universe
Marie Curie and radium
The worker's detective: a story about Dr. Alice Hamilton

Environment and Conservation

Antarctica: the last unspoiled continent
Come back, salmon: how a group of dedicated kids adopted Pigeon Creek and brought it back to life
Elephant have right of way : life with the wild animals of Africa
Garden in the city
My river
My river
Big book
Operation Siberian crane : the story behind the international effort to save an amazing bird
Prince William
Recycle! : a handbook for kids
A river ran wild : an environmental history
Saving endangered animals: a field guide to some of the Earth's rarest mammals
Think like an eagle: at work with a wildlife photographer
View from the air: Charles Lindbergh's earth and sky
Wings along the waterway

Nature and Life

Cactus
A child's book of wildflowers
Crinkleroot's guide to knowing the trees
Crinkleroot's guide to knowing the birds
Egg story
The visual dictionary of plants
Footprints and shadows
The gift of the tree
How a shirt grew in the field
The Life and times of the apple
The moon of the winter bird
The moon of the chicakrees
The moon of the deer
The moon of the fox pops
The moon of the salamanders
The moon of the wild pigs
My first garden book
Nature spy
Nutrition : what's in the food we eat
One earth, a multitude of creatures
The perfect spot
The seashore book
Note: we do have the redesigned 25th anniversary edition
Spoonbill swamp
Spring pool: a guide to the ecology of temporary ponds
Surtsey: the newest place on Earth
Thirteen moons on turtle's back : a Native American year of moons
Townsend's warbler
Where the buffalo roam
Wonderful pussy willows

Physics, Technology, and Engineering

Let's fly from A to Z
Mirrors: finding out about the properties of light
A rainbow balloon : a book of concepts
Shadows are about
Smell, the subtle sense

Underwater and Outer Space

The Atlantic salmon
Going on a whale watch
Otters under water
Our solar system
Venus
Mercury
Voyager: an adventure to the edge of the solar system

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1992

Animals

African elephants: giants of the land
Animal architecture
Animals and the new zoos
Batman : exploring the world of bats
Big cats
Busy, busy squirrels
Chameleons: dragons in the trees
Creatures that glow
Dawn to dusk in the Galapagos
Dear Mr. Blueberry
Do fishes get thirsty?
Harp seals
The hoiho: New Zealand's yellow-eyed penguin
I wonder if I'll see a whale
A journey of hope = Una jornada de esperanza /
Melody's mystery = el misterio de Melodia
June moutain secret
Life in the oceans
Loon lake
Manatee
Walrus
Miniature horses
Moon of the alligators
The moon of the mountain lions
Nature by design
Our vanishing farm animals: saving America's rare breeds
Pomona: the birth of a penguin
Predator!
The puffins are back
The Random House book of horses and horsemanship
Slippery babies : young frogs, toads, and salamanders
Snake
Flamingo
Tiger with wings : the great horned owl
Wasps at home
Watching whales
A water snake's year
Whales
When the woods hum
WInter whale
The work of the zoo doctors at the San Diego Zoo

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

A dinosaur named after me
Discovering dinosaur babies
The dragon in the cliff : a novel based on the life of Mary Anning
Living with dinosaurs
The secrets of Vesuvius

Biography

Environment and Conservation

And still the turtle watched
The big tree
Brother eagle, sister sky : a message from Chief Seattle
Note: This book is also part of the kit "Native Americans"
Cactus hotel
Cartons, cans, and orange peels : where does your garbage go?
Danger on the African grassland
The empty lot
Fall
Summer
Fishing at Long Pond
The land of Gray Wolf
Living treasure: saving Earth's threatened biodiversity
My first green book
Nature all year long
The old ladies who liked cats
The rock
Sierra
Summer of fire: Yellowstone 1988
Tigress
The whales' song
The world that Jack built

Nature and Life

Bigger than a baby
Changes
Corn Belt harvest
Cranberries
From seed to plant
The handmade alphabet
Helping hands: how monkeys assist people who are disabled
On the day you were born
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”On the day you were born : creative arts enrichment curriculum”
Red leaf, yellow leaf
Remember the butterflies
Roses red, violets blue : why flowers have colors
The Sierra Club book of weatherwisdom
Vegetable garden
Where food comes from

Physics, Technology, and Engineering

Bridges
Photography: take your best shot
Samuel Todd's book of great inventions
Sea squares
Visual magic
The Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane

Underwater and Outer Space

Exploring the Bismarck
Neptune
Night reef: dusk to dawn on a coral reef
A reef comes to life: creating an undersea exhibit
Under the sea from A to Z
Voyager to the planets
Window on the deep: the adventures of underwater explorer Sylvia Earle

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1991

Animals

Amazing poisonous animals
Amazing birds
Amazing cats
Amazing frogs & toads
Amazing lizards
Amazing mammals
Amazing snakes
Amazing spiders
Animal camouflage : a closer look
Animal families of the wild
Animals of the night
Backyard hunter: the praying mantis
Bats
Bird watch: a book of poetry
Dolphin adventure : a true story
Elephants on the beach
Feathers for lunch
Giraffes, the sentinels of the Savannas
The great butterfly hunt: the mystery of the migrating monarchs
Airborne: the search for the secret of flight
Garbage: where it comes from, where it goes
Radical robots: can you be replaced?
Great northern diver : the loon
How smart are animals?
Insect
Fish
Fossil
Insect metamorphosis : from egg to adult
A kettle of hawks and other wildlife groups
North country night
An owl in the house : a naturalist's diary
Seals, sea lions, and walruses
The secretive timber rattlesnake
Spiders
Spring fleece: a day of sheepshearing
Tiger trek
The vanishing manatee
Wolves
Eagles

Archaeology and Paleontology

Bones, bones, dinosaur bones
Dinosaur dig
Dinosaurs down under: and other fossils from Australia
Fossils tell of long ago
Note: we do have the 1972 edition
The lost wreck of the Isis
The new illustrated dinosaur dictionary
Traces of life : the origins of humankind

Space and Astronomy

The Christmas sky
The great Voyager adventure
How did we find out about Neptune?
Small worlds : exploring the 60 moons of our solar system

Earth Science and Life Science

An apple a day: from orchard to you
The clover and the bee : a book of pollination
Cows in the parlor: a visit to a dairy farm
Dumb cane and daffodils: poisonous plants in the house and garden
A flower grows
Flowers for everyone
The hidden life of the desert
Hidden stories in plants : unusual and easy-to-tell stories from around the world, together with creative things to do while telling them
More than just a vegetable garden
Nature's great balancing act: in our own backyard
Plants: extinction or survival
Tomato
The tree
24 hours in a forest
Under your feet
Winter
Spring
Woodpile

Environment and Conservation

Antarctica
Global warming
The great Kapok tree : a tale of the Amazon rain forest
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Rain forest of the world : endangered animals”
The great Yellowstone fire
Greening the city streets: the story of community gardens
John Muir
Just a dream
Near the sea: a portfolio of paintings
One day in the tropical rain forest
The peopling of planet earth: human population growth through the ages
Riverkeeper
Saving our wildlife
Sea otter rescue : the aftermath of an oil spill
Urban roosts: where birds nest in the city
Windows on wildlife
The year of the panda
Yellowstone fires: flames and rebirth

Medical and Health Sciences

Be smart about sex: facts for young people
The facts about Alzheimer's disease
The facts about crack and cocaine
The facts about drinking and driving
The facts about leukemia
The facts about transplants
Florence Sabin: medical researcher
Medical dilemmas
My feet
My hands
Overcoming acne: the how and why of healthy skin care

Physics, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Balloons : building and experimenting with inflatable toys
How did we find out about lasers?
Mathematics
Robots: your high-tech world
The time and space of Uncle Albert

Observation

Color farm
Exactly the opposite
My first look at sizes
My first look at opposites
My first look at touch
One sun: a book of terse verse
Shadows and reflections

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1990

Animals

Animals in winter
Animals keeping cool
Animals keeping clean
Animals keeping safe
Animals keeping warm
Birds of Antarcica: the wandering albatross
Birds of Antarctica: the Adélie penguin
The book of eagles
The call of the wolves
Can you find me?: a book about animal camouflage
Chameleons
Amazing spiders
An ant colony
Tule elk
Cheetah
Hippo
The chimpanzee family book
Cockroaches
The complete frog: a guide for the very young naturalist
The dolphins and me
Dragonflies
Elephant seals
Eric Carle's animals, animals
Humpback whales
Looking at dolphins and porpoises
Looking at ants
Never kiss an alligator!
Polar bear cubs
Tenrec's twigs
Turtle day
Whales
Wild animals of Africa ABC
Wild turkey, tame turkey
Young lions
Elephant crossing

Biography

Arctic explorer : the story of Matthew Henson
Bearman: exploring the world of black bears
George Washington Carver
Grace Hopper : Navy admiral and computer pioneer
Healing warrior : a story about Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Space Science and Astronomy

The Big Dipper and you
Junk in space
Voyagers from space: meteors and meteorites

Anthropology and Paleontology

Before the sun dies : the story of evolution
Dinosaur Mountain : graveyard of the past
Dinosaurs, dinosaurs
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs”, which includes a big book and plastic dinosaurs
Early humans
Dinosaur
Mammal
Music
Note: we do have the revised edition
Plant
Seashore
Shell
A gallery of dinosaurs and other early reptiles
The news about dinosaurs
Tyrannosaurus rex and its kin: the Mesozoic monsters
What happened to the dinosaurs?

Life Sciences, Earth Science, Environment, and Conservation

A B Cedar : an alphabet of trees
The animal rights controversy
Apples and pumpkins
At the frog pond
Big friend, little friend: a book about symbiosis
Box Turtle at Long Pond
The city kid's field guide
Come out, muskrats
Deep down underground
Desert giant : the world of the saguaro cactus
Endangered animals
High in the mountains
In the forest: a portfolio of paintings
Journey through a tropical jungle
Keep looking!
Lily pad pond
It's an armadillo!
The lost lake
Natural wonders of America
Nature walk
Partners for life: the myseries of animal symbiosis
Do not disturb : the mysteries of animal hibernation and sleep
Plant families
Potatoes
Bread
Eggs
Milk
Quiet
Rescue of the stranded whales
Sand dunes
Scoots, the bog turtle
Seasons of the cranes
The secret language: pheromones in the animal world
Signs of the apes, songs of the whales: adventures in human-animal communication
Start collecting rocks and minerals
Sterling: the rescue of a baby harbor seal
Strawberry
Turtle in July
Two orphan cubs
Where butterflies grow
White snow, blue feather

Medical and Health Sciences

Asthma
Cancer
Epilepsy
The brain: what it is, what it does
Children and the AIDS virus : a book for children, parents, & teachers
Getting your period: a book about menstruation
Glasses and contact lenses: your guide to eyes, eyewear, and eye care
How it feels to fight for your life
Peak performance: sports, science, and the body in action
Your immune system

Physics, Technology, and Engineering

Blimps
Feel the wind
Nuclear energy: troubled past, uncertain future
The science of music
Simulators
Switch on, switch off
Tops : building and experimenting with spinning toys

Other

Animals galore!
Anno's math games II
Cats from away
Color dance
Handtalk zoo
The tiny patient
Topsy-turvies: more picture to stretch the imagination
Willy can count