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Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its tail into the air to display a cryptic message spelled out in foot-high letters: Bite me. Trouble is, Nate's beginning to wonder if he hasn't spent just a little too much time in the sun. 'Cause no one...
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Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages, and are sure to educate and entertain children of all ages.
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As the novel opens, the seaside village of Hermanus, on the country's west coast, is overrun with whale watchers-foreign tourists wearing floral shirts and toting expensive binoculars, determined to see whales in their natural habitat. But when the tourists have gone home, the Whale Caller lingers at the shoreline, wooing a whale he calls Sharisha with cries from a kelp horn. When Sharisha fails to appear for weeks on end, the Whale Caller frets like...
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"Private detective Gates Foster is a father in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him solve the case. It's Mitzi's job to create the dubbed screams used in horror films and action movies. She's the best at what she does. But what no one in Hollywood knows is the screams Mitzi produces are harvested from the real, horror-filled, blood-chilling screams of people in their death throes--a technique...
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A newly hatched cricket has a problem getting his wings to chirp. A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish. The cricket's sound is reproduced at the end of the book. Annotation. A small cricket hatches "one warm day," and the other insects greet him. Though the little guy wants very much to respond, nothing happens when he rubs his wings together. Finally, as night...
9) Fancy that!
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
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English
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Little Red Hen hatches her chicks to accompanying barnyard noises.
10) Jibber-jabber
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Creative Editions
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[2018]
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English
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text pair animal sounds, from the coo of a pigeon and caw of a crow to the "zzzz" of a mosquito and the "ssss" of a snake.
14) Hello lamb
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Little Bee Books, a division of Bonnier Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Encourages young readers to welcomes baby animals to a new day and provides the corresponding sounds for each baby.
16) Goodnight bear
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Little Bee Books, a division of Bonnier Publishing
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2017.
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As the moon shines brightly, baby animals are encouraged to go to sleep.
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Sū Sī Bó Shì xiǎo hái xué dú shū quán jí volume 13
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Yuǎn Liú
Pub. Date
1992
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Mr. Brown is an expert at imitating all sorts of noises.
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