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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1979

Animal and plant life spans
Animal and plant mimicry
Animal rescue
Animals that use tools
Beaver moon
Beetles and how they live
Benjamin Banneker, genius of early America
Beyond the Arctic Circle
Bug hunters
Catch a sunbeam : a book of solar study and experiments
City of birds and beasts
Color: from rainbows to lasers
Discovering the mysterious egret
Disease detectives
Dr. Beaumont and the man with the hole in his stomach
Elephant seal island
Exploring fields and lots
Exploring with solar energy
Factory made: how things are manufactured
A fish hatches
The gray kangaroo at home
How did we find out about black holes?
How did we find out about earthquakes?
In defense of animals
Inside animals
Island of wild horses
Itch, sniffle, and sneeze: all about asthma, hay fever, and other allergies
Jet journey
Supermachines
Space frontier
Killer whales
Lambing time
Laser light
Learning about sex
The little deer of the Florida Keys
Living light: exploring bioluminescence
A look at ants
Looking at lizards
Mystery monsters of Loch Ness
Panda
Paper science
Physician's associate: a new career in health care
Possum baby
Rainbows, halos, and other wonders
Roadrunners and other cuckoos
Rocks and minerals
Seashores
Save that raccoon
Seven ways to collect plants
The smallest life around us
Small worlds close up
Snakes
The spider's web
Threshold : straight forward answers to teenager's questions about sex
Volcanoes: nature's fireworks
What does a geologist do?
The white Kikuyu, Louis S.B. Leakey
Wild animals, gentle women
Wild foods: a beginner's guide to identifying, harvesting and cooking safe and tasty plants from the outdoors
The world of fresh water fish
Wonders of jellyfish
Wonders of storks
Wonders of terrariums
Wooden ship
The world of worms
The wounded wolf
Zero is not for nothing
Zoo babies
Animals in danger
Animals that live in the sea
Explore a spooky swamp

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1978

Alcohol: what it is, what it does
The amazing dandelion
Animals and their niches
Archaeology
At home in the wild
Bees and honey
The butterfly cycle
Before you were three
Beneath your feet
Binary numbers
Biography of a fish hawk
Biography of a whooping crane
Birth of a foal
The bumblebee
Clean air - clean water for tomorrow's world
Colonies in orbit : the coming age of human settlements in space
The controversial coyote : predation, politics, and ecology
The coral reef: what lives there
Cougar
Darwin and enchanted isles
Death is natural
Discovering what puppies do
Earthquake
Earthwatch: space-time investigations with a globe
Endangered plants
A first look at animals without backbones
A first look at flowers
From apple seed to applesauce
The gentle desert
The giant panda at home
Goblin, a wild chimpanzee
The golden circle: a book of months
Grass: the everything, everywhere plant
Hanging on
The hidden world
How did we find out about outer space?
How to build a better mousetrap car - and other experimental science fun
Human body
Is there a Loch Ness Monster?: the search for a legend
I watch flies
A January fog will freeze a hog, and other weather folklore
Land of the giant tortoise: the story of the Galapagos
Little dogs of the prairie
Living together in nature
Look to the night sky
Maria Mitchell: first lady of American astronomy
Meet the computer
The moon, steppingstone to outer space
Moving to win: the physics of sports
The mysterious rays: Marie Curie's world
Nature's world records
On the frontier with Mr. Audubon
Our human ancestors
Peeper, first voice of spring
Saber-toothed tiger and other ice age mammals
Scent talk among animals
Science at the ballgame
Serengeti cats
Sharks
Sounds of animals at night
Stars and planets
Summer of the white goat
Talpa: the story of a mole
Veterinarian, doctor for your pet
A walk in the forest: the woodlands of North America
What do you want to know about guppies?
What happens in the spring
Creatures of the night
Let's go to the moon
The blue whale
What's in the names of wild animals
Wolves
Wonders of lions
Wonders of raccoons
Yes--no, stop--go : some patterns in mathematical logic
You and your body
Zoos in the making

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1977

African summer
All the better to bite with
Animal fathers
Animal games
Animals come to my house: a story guide to the care of small wild animals
Animals in your neighborhood
Animals of the sea
Animal worlds
Birds
Apples : a bushel of fun & facts
Bats
The beaver: how he works
Bees and wasps
Biography of an alligator
Biography of an American reindeer
Biography of an armadillo
The birds' woodland: what lives there
Caves
Cheetahs, the swift hunters
A chick hatches
A closer look at apes
Coils, magnets, and rings: Michael Faraday's world
Diary of a monarch butterfly
Discovering the world of the three-toed sloth
The eels' strange journey
Elephants
Endangered predators
Everything moves
Flying to the moon
Note: we do have the second edition, which has a preface and revised final chapter
Frozen snakes and dinosaur bones
Gerbils: all about them
Giraffe, the silent giant
Good and bad feelings
The goose that went to Hollywood
How did we find out about atoms?
How wild animals fight
Iceberg alley
Is there life in outer space
Jane Goodall
Katydids: the singing insects
Keeping in shape
Learning to choose
Let's go on a space shuttle
Listen to the crows
Living things that poison, itch, and sting
Lumps, bumps, and rashes
Man's useful plants
March of the lemmings
The milkweed and its world of animals
The minnow family
Mistletoe: fact and folklore
The mother kangaroo
Mr. Tamarin's trees
Musk oxen, bearded ones of the Arctic
The mystery of the Loch Ness Monster
A nest of wood ducks
Nine Black American doctors
Once there was a passenger pigeon
One more flight
The optical illusion book
Our dirty land
Our hungry earth: the world food crisis
Plants and insects together
Polar bear
Popcorn
Potatoes: all about them
Apples: all about them
Prehistoric life
Puffin: bird of the open seas
Rabbits and hares
Return of the buffalo
Savage survivor: 300 million years of the shark
Sea stars and their kin
The seed the squirrel dropped
Seeing through the dark : blind and sighted--a vision shared
Shadow science
Sharks
The siamang gibbons: an ape family
Skylab: the story of man's first space station
Small habitats
Soybeans: the wonder beans
Submerge! the story of divers and their crafts
Tropical saltwater aquariums
The tunnel builders
Underground
Underground furnaces : the story of geothermal energy
Understanding animals as pets
Valleys
The vitamin puzzle
What about VD?
Who will answer the owl?
Wildlife at night
Wild mouse
Wild orphan friends
Window into a nest
Wind rose
Wonder of caribou
Wonders of geese and swans
Wonders of herbs
Wonders of prairie dogs
Wonders of seals and sea lions
Wonders of sponges
Wonders of the desert world
Animals that build their homes
The playful dolpins
Camping adventure

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1976

About owls
Alfalfa hill
Animal territories
The Arctic and the Antarctic: what lives there
Bigfoot: America's abominable snowman
The blossom on the bough: a book of trees
The blue lobster: a life cycle
The boomerang book
A calf is born
The careless animal: nine ecological detective stories
Caring for trees on city streets
Chains, webs, & pyramids : the flow of energy in nature
City and suburb: exploring an ecosystem
A closer look at ants
A closer look at dogs
Collecting for the city naturalist
Consumer protection labs
The continental shelves
Creatures of darkness
The desert is theirs
Discovering what garter snakes do
Do toads give you warts?
Doing something about the weather
Dolphin
Energy: power for people
Exploring with metrics
The harlequin moth: its life story
Fat free: common sense for young weight worriers
A first look at insects
Frogs and toads of the world
Galapagos summer
George Washington Carver
Grizzly bear
Growing up wild: how young animals survive
The hidden world: the story of microscopic life
How did we find out about comets?
How heredity works; why living things are as they are
How insects communicate
How plants are polinated
How was I born? a photographic story of reproduction and birth for children
How to count like a martian
The hungry snowbird
Hypnosis: the wakeful sleep
The Brown paper school presents : The I hate mathematics! book
Insects and their young
Kangaroos, opossums and other marsupials
Kids and alcohol, the deadliest drug
Light and darkness
Lizard tails and cactus spines
Look how many people wear glasses: the magic of lenses
Maps, tracks, and the bridges of Königsberg: a book about networks
The metric system
Oil: the buried treasure
Once we went on a picnic
Peacocks
People and other mammals
The peregrine falcons
Petroleum: gas, oil and asphalt
Pets in a jar: collecting and caring for small wild animals
Projects with air: a science at work book
Ramu and Chennai: brothers of the wild
Reading, writing, chattering chimps
Roots are food finders
The Sargasso Sea: an ocean desert
Science catches the criminal
Science fun with a flashlight
A sea of troubles
Sea star
The senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching
Spring peepers
Supersuits
The survivors: enduring animals of North America
3D, 2D, 1D
Tricks animals play
Tunafish sandwiches
UFOs and other worlds
Whales: friendly dolphins and mighty giants of the sea
Whales: their life in the sea
Wild cat
Wild cousins of the cat
Wintertime for animals
Wonders of sea gulls
The world of the woodlot
Wufu: the story of a little brown bat
A zoo in your room
Zoos of the world

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1975

All about rabbits as pets
All upon a sidewalk
Animals and plants that trap
Animal invaders: the story of imported wildlife
Area
Baltimore orioles
Birds on your feet
Born in a barn: farm animals and their young
Bulbs, corms, and such
Bulldozers, loaders and spreaders: a book about roadbuilding machines
Carnivorous plants
Comets, meteoroids, and asteroids: mavericks of the solar system
The crusty ones: a first look at crustaceans
Disappearing energy; can we end the crisis
Dooryard garden: Tim and Jennifer's calendar from planting and harvesting
Doubleday nature encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of animals
Exploring the insect world
The final mystery
Fishes and their young
From idea into house
Fuel for today and tomorrow
Indoor gardening
The great energy search
Grocery store botany
Gypsy moth: its history in America
The hamburger book: all about hamburgers and hamburger cookery
Hamsters: all about them
Heat and temperature
How animals survive
How did we find out about germs?
How did we find out about vitamins?
How to do a science project
Hunters of the whale: an adventure of northwest coast archaeology
Journey of the gray whales
About your heart
The life cycle book of chickens
The life cycle book of butterflies
The life cycle book of frogs
Life in the dark: how animals survive at night
The life of insects
Loggerhead turtle: survivor from the sea
Look at a calf
Messages and voices : the communication of animals
Metric is here!
Minnows
The mother owl
Nature's water clowns: the sea otters
Nine true dolphin stories
Owlet, the great horned owls
Plant fun: ten easy plants to grow
Questions and answers about horses
Save the Earth! : an ecology handbook for kids
Signs and symbols of the sun
Sleep is for everyone
A snail's pace
Solids, liquids, and gases
The story of glaciers and the ice age
Streamlined
Sunshine makes the seasons
Termites
Thirty-two moons: the natural satellites of our solar system
Thor Heyerdahl and the reed boat Ra
Tricks of eye and mind; the story of optical illusion
Watching the new baby
Water on your street
Who really invented the rocket?
When the whale came to my town
Whose nose is this?
Wild travelers: the story of animal migration
Wonders of a kelp forest
Wonders of barnacles
Wonders of the cactus world
Wonders of the eagle world
Woodchuck
The world beneath our feet: the story of soil
Year on Muskrat Marsh
You and the metric system
Young animals : the search for independent life
The young grizzly
Your first pet and how to take care of it

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1974

About garbage and stuff
Air, the invisible ocean
Amphibians as pets
And then there were none
Animal communities
Animals everywhere
Animals that frighten people: facts versus myth
The apple and other fruits
Atlas of world wildlife
The backyard astronomer
Bear mouse
Biology project puzzlers
Birds and their nests
Blue whale, vanishing leviathan
A book about pandas
A book of animal poems
A book of flying saucers for you
The bug clan
A building on your street
A tree on your street
The changing world of birds
A chipmunk's inside-outside world
City rocks, city blocks, and the moon
Clean air, sparkling water: the fight against polution
Dining on a sunbeam: food chains and food webs
Discovering cycles
Discovering what crickets do
Eclipse : darkness in daytime
The environment and you
Estuaries
Evolution of a scientist: the two worlds of Theodosius Dobzhansky
Eye of the whirlwind
A first look at mammals
Follow a fisher
From food to fertilizer: the role of excrement in the life cycle
Going to the zoo with Roger Caras
Gorilla gorilla
Heat
Hold everything
How did life get there?
How did we find out about numbers?
How plants travel
How the doctor knows you're fine
Hurricanes
In search of a sandhill crane
Insect zoo: how to collect and care for insects
The internal combustion engine and how it works
Into the woods: exploring the forest ecosystem
John Muir
Lakes
Less than nothing is really something
Let's look at reptiles
The lion family
Litter - the ugly enemy: an ecology story
The lives and deaths of a meadow
Look in the mirror
Misunderstood animals
My puppy is born
The mysterious eel
A natural history of giraffes
The new American continent: out continental shelf
The new water book
Oceanography lab
Ostrich
Other worlds, other beings
Paper hornets
Plumbing and how it works
Pronghorn on the Powder River
Rabbits: all about them
Rachel Carson: who loved the sea
The rock-hound's book
Roentgen's revolution: the discovery of the X-ray
Scavengers
Sea shells in action
Secrets of Redding Glen: the natural history of a wooded valley
The skeleton book
Skunks
A skyscraper goes up
Snakes: the facts and folklore
Space station '80
Spider world
Statistics
Storms - from the inside out
Sweet and delicious: fruits of tree, bush, and vine
Think metric!
The tiny planets
To find a dinosaur
The trumpeter of the swan
Watch out, it's poison ivy!
Water: a field trip guide
Water for today and tomorrow
Water is wet
Water monsters
Weasels, otters, skunks, and their family
Whales
Note: we do have the revised edition
What is sound?
When flying animals are babies
Where does all the rain go?
The white cardinal
Why things change: the story of evolution
Why you feel hot, why you feel cold: your body's temperature
Wild animals, safe places
Windows in the sea
Winter buds
The wolf
The wonderful world of mammals: adventuring with stamps
Wonders of alligators and crocodiles
The world's endangered wildlife
Your living bones
Your busy brain
Your stomach and digestive tract

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